It is a well-known fact that it is important and vital to the business to ensure data security. A business can have important information about it clients and customers, its vendors and the sales information which when put in wrong hands can be fatal for not only the business organization but also its various stakeholders. A penetration test, also known as a pen test, is a simulated cyberattack against any computer system to check for exploitable vulnerabilities. In the context of web application security, penetration testing makes a web application firewall more reliable and robust. Penetration testing tools are a part of a penetration test (Pen Test) to automate certain tasks, improve testing efficiency and discover issues that might be difficult to find using manual analysis techniques alone. There are various penetration testing tools available in the market that organizations use as per their requirement. This paper focuses on various attacks that are possible on a web application and comparison of various penetration tools to find best tools for penetration testing.

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