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Sneak Preview: Parasoft's SOAPtest 4.0

A wizard helped me set up a series of XML- and non-XML- specific penetration tests against a .Net Web service running in our labs. Because the service offers operations that interact with a database, the SQL injection tests were definitely of interest, even though SQL injection attacks through XML aren't much different from those that exploit other Web technologies, such as ASP, JSP and PHP.


Good

• Automates testing of common SOAP and XML vulnerabilities
• Configurable dependencies let you test a composite application in the flow as required by the application

• Supports HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1 and JMS as SOAP transports


Bad


• XPath knowledge necessary for some WS-Security operations
• Infers vulnerabilities without clear explanations

Parasoft SOAPtest 4.0, starts at $3,495. Parasoft, (888) 305-0041, (626) 256-3680.

www.parasoft.com
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