# Burpsuite Setup

**What is Burp Suite?**

Burp Suite, the Swiss Army Knife, is a proxy tool which can intercept requests and is often used for evaluating security of web-based applications and doing hands-on testing.

**Burp Suite Community Edition**

Burp Suite comes with 3 edition out of which community edition is free to download.

To Download visit: [https://portswigger.net/burp/communitydownload](https://portswigger.net/burp/communitydownload)

And Click on “Download the latest version”

Follow the below steps to set up Burp Suite with your Firefox:

Click on Proxy

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1688280118612/b40f25f5-aa81-469c-ad2d-2a9681e44fd0.png)

Click on Options

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1688280121802/a95ab9b8-a477-489d-93ad-6a1a00cdfa34.png)

In Proxy Listeners: Click and Edit it. Change the Port to 8081

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1688280125025/11f3a98c-5093-4488-8f80-152c56bf2c3e.png)

Click Ok

Open Firefox

In the options menu search for “proxy”

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1688280126630/bee7f1f2-0854-4a9b-a5c2-705029761035.png)

Change the configuration as shown below

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1688280129244/5076192e-4652-45d6-bc18-923d054b60e7.png)

Click OK and search for [http://burp](http://burp) The following screen should be visible

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1688280131850/df716b9d-7353-4539-9e2a-d8b0fd968ed3.png)

Click on CA Certificate on top right corner : A certificate must be downloaded

Again go in options and search for “certificates”

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1688280134113/be2470cc-49bf-4a1f-b9d9-b2527e316b75.png)

Click on “Import” and choose the file downloaded in Step 10

Make sure to tick both the checkboxes

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1688280138091/3b074dc2-a5af-4302-80d2-732377049dae.png)

Click OK

Your Burp Suite is ready to rock!!