
For the community edition, Burp Suite is free of cost. There are other tools also in the market which are free of cost available, like OWASP ZAP etc., but they do not provide too much functionality. It is the most popular tool for web security used by researchers because it is very easy to use, which makes it better as compared to other tools. These other plugins are called BApps, and by installing them, we can enhance the capability of the Burp Suite. Portswigger is the company which developed this tool, and the founder of this company is Dafydd Stuttard.Īpart from the features provided by the Burp Suite, we can add additional plugins to get more functionality.



If we have a website or web applications then we use some tools to test the penetration of these applications and Burp or Burp Suite is the most popular set of tools for testing the penetration of web apps.
