Improve Your Web Application Security with the Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner

Acunetix is not just a web vulnerability scanner. It is a complete web application security testing solution that can be used both standalone and as part of complex environments. It offers built-in vulnerability assessment and vulnerability management, as well as many options for integration with market-leading software development tools. By making Acunetix one of your security measures, you can significantly increase your cybersecurity stance and eliminate many security risks at a low resource cost.

Defend Against Known Application Vulnerabilities

The first step to kick starting your web application security program is to look for known application vulnerabilities. Keeping known vulnerabilities out of your code base prevents attackers from easily exploiting them and running malicious code. Attacks such as SQL injection and Cross-site Scripting are usually much easier to fix than to find them, so educating developers about best practices, defining a security policy and enforcing development security standards are all important approaches when defending against web security vulnerabilities. Acunetix is a software product for web application security testing which helps you quickly and easily identify known vulnerabilities, as well as vulnerabilities in any website or web application, including sites built with hard-to-scan HTML5 and JavaScript Single Page Applications (SPAs). With Acunetix you can:

  • Discover in excess of more than 6500 security vulnerabilities
  • Detect SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting and all of their variants
  • Automatically scan all website files with custom form authentication or other custom access controls and session management

Defend Your Entire Attack Surface

Web applications have a large attack surface and security threats can come from anywhere, including third-party code. Vulnerabilities can exist in several layers of an application, be it in the frontend, the backend or even within web server configurations. With built-in support for exporting discovered vulnerabilities to the most popular security tools such as web application firewalls, you can take automated testing even further. Virtually patching the vulnerabilities in production will give you enough breathing room to fully and carefully undergo remediation. Additionally, Acunetix can find security issues beyond the typical black-box scanning approach thanks to its AcuSensor gray-box scanning technology. With AcuSensor, Acunetix can automatically examine Java, ASP.NET and PHP server-side code that is being executed. This allows Acunetix to pinpoint the exact line of code where vulnerabilities lie, as well as dramatically reduce an already low false positive rate.

Get Actionable Insights into Your Web Application Vulnerabilities

By using tools to help you simulate web application attacks, you’ll be in a position to find and fix security vulnerabilities before an attacker has the chance to exploit them. A vulnerability scanner like Acunetix also recommends actions that you can take to correct the vulnerabilities it identifies, as well as the ability to retest fixes. Acunetix also allows you to produce dozens of technical and compliance reports with actionable information web application developers, security professionals, and regulators can use to assess and reduce security risks:

  • Out-of-the-box vulnerability management tools including historic trends, and prioritization
  • Integration with popular Issue Trackers such as Atlassian Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Bugzilla, and Mantis
  • Easy to generate compliance reports for PCI DSS compliance, OWASP Top 10 compliance, ISO 27001 compliance and HIPAA compliance