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.
To save resources, ease remediation, and avoid late patching, enterprises often aim to include web vulnerability tests as part of their SecDevOps processes. Acunetix is one of the best DAST tools for such a purpose due to its efficiency in both physical and virtual environments.
Acunetix is the first web security scanner on the market that is constantly being improved since 2005. It is a highly mature, specialized tool developed by web security testing experts. Such specialization made it possible to build a solution that is more effective than many bundled tools.
Acunetix is available in versions suited to different customer needs. It can be deployed locally on Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. You can also use it as a cloud product to save your local resources.
Vulnerability scanning is the only automatic way to protect your website or web application from malicious hacker attacks. In addition, you should do manual penetration testing after a vulnerability scan. You should use web application firewalls only as temporary protection before you can fix vulnerabilities.
You should scan your website or web application every time that you change it. However, if you use ready-made web applications such as WordPress, some plugins may be updated automatically and you do not always know if someone else is introducing changes. Therefore, we recommend that you run a full scan every week and a quick scan (incremental scan and/or high severity scan) every day.
We believe that Acunetix is the best vulnerability scanner because it is the most automated, the most efficient, and the most accurate scanner on the market. If you want to find out for yourself, test it along with other scanners.
Hackers are concentrating their efforts on web-based applications - shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content, etc. Accessible 24/7 from anywhere in the world, insecure web applications provide easy access to backend corporate databases.
Web application attacks, launched on port 80/443, go straight through the firewall, past operating system and network level security, and right in to the heart of your application and corporate data. Tailor-made web applications are often insufficiently tested, have undiscovered vulnerabilities and are therefore easy prey for hackers.
Find out if your web site is secure before hackers download sensitive data, commit a crime using your web site as a launch pad, and endanger your business. Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner crawls your web site, automatically analyzes your web applications and finds perilous SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other vulnerabilities that expose your on line business. Concise reports identify where web applications need to be fixed, thus enabling you to protect your business from impending hacker attacks!
Acunetix has pioneered the web application security scanning technology: Its engineers have focused on web security as early as 1997 and developed an engineering lead in web site analysis and vulnerability detection.
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities. Automated scans may be supplemented and cross-checked with the variety of manual tools to allow for comprehensive web site and web application penetration testing.
Detection of these vulnerabilities requires a sophisticated detection engine. Paramount to web vulnerability scanning is not the number of attacks that a scanner can detect, but the complexity and thoroughness with the scanner launches SQL injection, Cross Site scripting and other attacks. Acunetix has a state of the art vulnerability detection engine which quickly finds vulnerabilities with a low number of false positives. It also locates CRLF injection, Code execution, Directory Traversal, File inclusion, checks for vulnerabilities in File Upload forms and much more.
While scanning the website, scan also the web server for open ports and run network alert checks against network services running on the open ports such as DNS cache poisoning and recursion tests, SNMP weak community strings, weak SSH ciphers and many other network services tests. The network alerts checks are scriptable so you can modify them or write new ones yourself.
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is able to automatically fill in web forms and authenticate against web logins. Most web vulnerability scanners are unable to do this or require complex scripting to test these pages. Not so with Acunetix: Using the macro recording tool you can record a logon or form filling process and store the sequence. The scanner can then replay this sequence during the scan process and fill in web forms automatically or logon to password protected areas.
Allowing you to identify more vulnerabilities than a traditional black box Web Application Scanner and generating less false positives, Acunetix AcuSensor Technology combines black box scanning techniques with feedback from sensors placed inside the source code while source code is being executed.
The advantages of AcuSensor Technology are many. These include: faster locating and fixing of vulnerabilities, whilst providing more information about each vulnerability, such as source code line number, stack trace and affected SQL query; it also checks for web application configuration problems, such as misconfiguration of web.config or php.ini files; detects many more SQL injection vulnerabilities without depending on web server error messages; and many more.
Acunetix AcuSensor Technology is a new security technology that allows you to identify more vulnerabilities than a traditional Web Application Scanner, whilst generating less false positives. In addition it indicates exactly where in your code the vulnerability is and reports also debug information.
The increased accuracy is achieved by combining black box scanning techniques with feedback from sensors placed inside the source code while the source code is executed. Black box scanning does not know how the application reacts and source code analyzers do not understand how the application will behave while it is being attacked. Therefore combining these techniques together achieves more relevant results than using source code analyzers and black box scanning independently.
It has also the ability to scan all SQL transactions taking place between the web application and the database when the web application is being scanned. It hooks between the web application and the database and is able to trace SQL injection vulnerabilities in the code without relying on database errors like other typical scanners do.
For the reported SQL injection featured in the screenshot below, the SQL query including the injected content which results into an SQL injection vulnerability is shown. The stack trace information is also displayed, to guide the developer where exactly the problem is.
As seen above, using the AcuSensor Technology has many advantages. Apart from the above mentioned advantages, information provided by the AcuSensor Technology helps the developer trace the vulnerability and fix it in a much shorter time. It also helps them understand what was wrong in the code to allow such vulnerability to happen. From this, developers proactively learn more about vulnerabilities and it helps them in writing more secure code for future web applications and increases web security awareness.
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is available in three versions: A Small Business Version for one nominated web site, an Enterprise version to allow for scanning of an unlimited number of websites, and a Consultant version, which allows you to use Acunetix WVS to perform penetration tests for third parties.
The Small Business Version is extended to those organizations owning and operating one website installed on a single server. Ideal for small businesses, this version allows you to scan 1 nominated website and cannot be used to scan sites of customers or third parties.
The Enterprise Version is extended to those organizations owning and operating more than one website. Ideal for larger organizations, this allows you to scan an unlimited number of websites and cannot be used to scan sites of customers or third parties.
The Consultant Version is extended to those organizations scanning any number of websites owned by their customers to provide them with penetration testing and vulnerability assessment services. Ideal for Security Consultants, Web Development Agencies and ISPs, this version also contains the Vulnerability Editor that allows you to create specific types of assessment tests and reports. The Consultant's version also allows you to personalize your reports by adding your own logo.
Get way more than just a vulnerability scanner (although our scanning is amazing). Acunetix is a complete application security solution that finds security vulnerabilities in every corner of every application and actually makes you safer with integrations and features to help you fix your issues fast!
Acunetix Manual Tools is a free suite of penetration testing tools. These tools are not part of the Acunetix product and you need to download an installation package separately. Acunetix Manual Tools include 8 modules: HTTP Editor, Subdomain Scanner, Target Finder, Blind SQL Injector, HTTP Fuzzer, Authentication Tester, Web Services Editor, and HTTP Sniffer. Acunetix Manual Tools are free for private and commercial use but they are not an open-source project. Currently, they are only available for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The tools use a graphical interface only and do not support the command line. Penetration testers can use Acunetix Manual Tools with other tools such as the Metasploit exploitation framework, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), w3af audit framework, Wireshark, etc. to expand their knowledge about a particular security issue detected by an automated web vulnerability scanner or to find advanced security vulnerabilities that automated scanners cannot detect. A combination of automatic and manual tools is the best solution for a web application security testing framework. Automated scanners save a lot of time while manual tools let pen testers explore deeper.
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