Habits that make security testing safe, legal and useful — permission and scope, non-destructive proofs, shift-left, combine scanners with manual testing, triage findings, test access control hardest, protect data, report responsibly, and a pre-engagement and pre-report checklist.
How to learn authorised security testing in six milestones on OWASP Juice Shop — permission and baseline checks, injection, access control and auth, XSS and logic, scanners in CI, and a full assessment report.
Authorised-practice tasks with expected results for each of the six security testing milestones on OWASP Juice Shop — recon and baseline, injection, access control and auth, XSS and logic, scanners in CI, and a findings report.
Copy-paste reference for authorised security testing — OWASP Top 10 checks, test payloads for practice targets, security headers, cookie flags, curl recipes, scanner commands (ZAP, Semgrep, Trivy, Gitleaks), JWT decoding, CVSS bands, finding template and practice targets.