Automated Penetration Testing Software - Port Swigger

Summary: PortSwigger's product page describes automated penetration testing as software that handles repetitive pentest work such as fuzzing, where large numbers of payloads are deployed and roughly 0.1% prove useful. It positions Burp Scanner inside Burp Suite Professional for manual testers and bug bounty hunters, and Burp Suite DAST for scanning entire web portfolios on an ongoing basis and integrating with CI/CD pipelines so code is tested for flaws on each commit.
What's compelling: The page states that cybersecurity compliance standards often require pentests to take place periodically, and that skipping them risks a data breach - while noting automated scanning does not remove the need for periodic manual checks, since some vulnerabilities take an expert's intuition to detect.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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