A cybersecurity analyst is performing a security assessment on a new, on-premise web application before its production launch. The analyst needs to identify vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection. The tool chosen must support both automated scanning to find common flaws and provide features for detailed, manual interception and manipulation of traffic. Which of the following tools is BEST suited for this comprehensive assessment?
The correct answer is Burp Suite. It is an integrated platform for web application security testing that includes an automated scanner for common vulnerabilities and a proxy for intercepting and manually manipulating HTTP/S traffic. Nmap is primarily a network scanner used for host discovery and port scanning, not specialized web application analysis. Prowler is a security tool for cloud environments (like AWS, Azure, GCP) to check for misconfigurations and ensure compliance, not for testing web application code vulnerabilities. GNU debugger (GDB) is a source-code debugger used by programmers to fix bugs in software; it is not a security scanning tool.
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