Ethical hacking tools

Ethical hacking tools enable white hat hackers to better secure the web. And with over 47,000 users, Burp Suite is the world’s go-to web app hacking software. But how did it become such celebrated hacking software? And if you’ve not used it yet, why do we think you should take a free trial of Burp Suite Professional?

Types of ethical hacking tool

As an umbrella term, ethical hacking covers a number of subtly different activities. At their heart though, all operators in this sphere are trying improve the online world by making it more secure. Ethical hacking includes (but isn’t limited to), penetration testing, bug bounty hunting, red teaming, and cybersecurity research.

Because ethical hacking covers many different areas, there can never really be one “best tool.” A hardware hacker requires very different solutions to a pentester attempting to breach a corporate network from afar, and so on. Burp Suite Professional is the world’s dominant toolkit in the field of web application hacking.

Web app hacking software that does it all

Burp Suite Pro is made up of a number of components – each of which is useful in different ways to ethical hackers. The diagram below illustrates how some of the major Burp Suite components intersect, and you can also see how they fit into manual and automated workflows:

Burp Suite’s ethical hacking workflow

Burp Suite is sometimes called the “the ethical hacker’s Swiss Army knife”. This moniker wasn’t gained without good reason. Most people are amazed at its flexibility as a hacking tool when they use it for the first time. From the most granular of manual testing use cases, to automated scans of entire web apps, Burp Suite Pro makes it easy.

Hacking with Burp Suite Pro almost always begins with Burp Proxy. This man-in-the-middle (MitM) HTTP proxy is where Burp Suite hacking software began, and it still lies at the heart of our toolkit. Once intercepted by the proxy, interesting items can be sent to other areas of Burp Suite for further testing – all within one window.

As you can probably imagine, this gives ethical hackers a powerful framework for dynamic application security testing (DAST). Burp Suite Pro puts a whole array of powerful hacking, pentesting, and bug bounty tools within easy reach. We aim to make it the most streamlined, convenient, and versatile solution of its type.