With the modern cybersecurity threat landscape continuously changing, one of the best ways for organizations to shore up on their web security and defend themselves against critical vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection, Cross-site Scripting (XSS), as well as SSL and web server misconfigurations, is to run automated security tests on their web applications using an automated web security scanner like Acunetix.
Automated vulnerability scanners like Acunetix allow organizations to check websites and web applications for security vulnerabilities quickly, cost-effectively and, most importantly, continuously.
With Acunetix, security teams can set up scheduled automated scans to test for thousands of web application vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. While most security scanning can identify security holes in legacy technologies, Acunetix takes website security checks to the next level with support for the latest JavaScript applications. Unlike most web vulnerability scanning software, Acunetix has full support for modern single-page applications (SPAs) and can understand and fully test applications that rely on JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, Ember, and Vue. This means that unlike in the case of most website security scanners, website owners can rely on Acunetix to keep up with both their legacy web applications developed on traditional stacks as well as modern web apps taking advantage of all the latest and greatest technologies.
Speed Without Sacrificing Flexibility
Additionally, unlike many other web scanners, Acunetix is lightning-fast. With a re-engineered core and a highly optimized crawler, every inch of Acunetix is tuned for speed and efficiency. Be it a small internal application or a massive WordPress site, Acunetix can scan hundreds of thousands of pages without breaking a sweat. What’s more, Acunetix can save the progress of a scan mid-way, pause it, and resume it later on from where it left off entirely automatically. This is crucial for time-boxed pen testing or when scanning enormous web applications with time restrictions. Integrations with industry-leading web application firewalls (WAFs) such as Imperva SecureSphere, F5 Big-IP ASM, and Citrix WAF make it easy to use security test results to temporarily patch vulnerabilities until they get fixed.
Easy Reporting and Issue Tracker Integration
Another issue that Acunetix solves over some other penetration testing software is the ability to instantly generate a wide variety of comprehensive reports such as PCI DSS compliance, HIPAA compliance, OWASP Top 10 compliance, and many others. Additionally, Acunetix allows users to export discovered vulnerabilities to issue trackers such as Atlassian Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Mantis, Bugzilla, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).Recommended reading
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“We use Acunetix as part of our Security in the SDLC and to test code in DEV and SIT before being promoted to Production.”
Kurt Zanzi, Xerox CA-MMIS Information Securtiy Office, Xerox