Coding for Penetration Testers: Building Better Tools, Second Edition provides readers with an understanding of the scripting languages that are commonly used when developing tools for penetration testing, also guiding users through specific examples of custom tool development and the situations where such tools might be used.

The authors base the book’s sample intranet on Microsoft’s free best practices example, the IBuySpy Portal, and teach you to quickly create an application that exploits the advanced features of ASP.NET. A full explanation of the IBuySpy Portal architecture is provided, which allows you to maximize product usage.

Human factors and usability issues have traditionally played a limited role in security research and secure systems development. Security experts have largely ignored usability issues--both because they often failed to recognize the importance of human factors and because they lacked the expertise to address them.