Website Security Test Tools

The corporate website is a necessity in the increasingly digital world of business today. It’s the front door to your business, the sales funnel to which you can drive traffic, and the place where your customers and clients can get 24/7 access to the vital services and/or information your company provides. Unfortunately, an insecure website also means that malicious hackers can have 24/7 access to the back-end of your business. From SQL Injection to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) and server-side request forgery (SSRF), hackers have many ways to exploit web application vulnerabilities. That’s why web application security should be an integral part of any business’s security strategy.

Newcomers to website security often try to get by with free open-source tools. But if you’re really serious about preventing attackers from penetrating your web server, you’ll want to invest in a more comprehensive security testing tool with support for a wide array of web technologies. The Acunetix vulnerability scanner is an automated scanner and security testing tool designed to help you identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. Let’s dive into the security tools that make up the Acunetix security suite.

Whether your web application is built with Java, ASP.NET, PHP, or Ruby on Rails, the Acunetix DeepScan Crawler technology allows the scanner to scan HTML5 web pages, AJAX heavy apps, and dynamic SPAs. This web vulnerability scanner can interact with JavaScript, HTML, XML, and JSON just like a real browser. It can also handle SOAP/REST architectures; CMS tests on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!; and CRUD operations.

Blind XSS, Host Header Attacks, and XML External Entity Injection (XXE) – what do all of these attacks have in common? They fall under the scope of out-of-band vulnerability testing. These security vulnerabilities will not provide a response during a conventional security scan. An intermediary service is required to detect out-of-band vulnerabilities. AcuMonitor serves as that intermediary.

DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) or black-box testing is a web security test where a web application is tested from the outside in real-time. The Acunetix AcuSensor is a lightweight sensor that you can additionally install on the server, which provides Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) a.k.a. grey-box software testing for Node.js, Java, ASP.NET and PHP-powered web applications.

The Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner provides a comprehensive solution for all your website security testing needs. From SQL Injections to Cross-site Scripting, try Acunetix Online or On-Premises to secure the future of your web application.