Zed Attack Proxy - Web Application Penetration Testing

The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who a new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually.

Features

• Intercepting proxy
• Automated scanner
• Passive scanner
• Spider
• Port Scanner

The release of OWASP ZAP is actually a fork from Paros Proxy.

References:

• OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project
• Download Zaproxy at Google Code.