Sunday 15 July 2012

Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner

By Karen Carter


Acuentix vulnerability scanner is software designed to protect any web-based application and discover security holes so that an intruder can't gain illegal access to your system and data. It can serve multiple purposes including SQL injection, cross site scripting and week passwords. Most corporations have checked their data at the network level, but they often forget to check the significant steps of checking whether their web application is vulnerable to attack. Firewall, SSL, and locked down servers are ineffectual against web application hacking. Acuentix vulnerability scanner was launched with this threat in mind. They realized that the only way to fight against website hacking is to develop an automatic tool which could help companies to protect their web applications against vulnerabilities. In July, 2005 Acuentix web scanner was released.

Acunetix Vulnerability scanner is a tool designed to discover security holes in our web application that an attacker would likely abuse to gain illicit access to your systems and data. It also checks for multiple vulnerabilies in application including SQL injection, cross site scripting and weak passwords.

The application can be used for checking the vulnerability in web application and also performs the penetration testing against the identified issues. The applicable suggestions are provided for every single weakness and that also increases the security of the applications. The scanning of applications are done by a group of highly professional and very much experienced penetration testing experts at the time of real world application during the actual vulnerability assessment. Each feature of the Acunetix vulnerability scanner is rated between 1 to 5.The 5 is considered to be best score.

HTTP fuzzer is similar to viewer and sniper; however it automates inserting characters into variables, instead manually doing it and also proves an easy way to brute force test applications for buffer overflow. Authentications tester is an excellent addition to this product which provide both HTTP and HTML form authentication.

Acunetix vulnerability scanner checks for SQL injection exploitation, checks the default system files and folders to relating the security threat, and also the cross site scripting to ensure the system security from hackers. While the real world testing of scanner was held, the panel of review; rate the performances of the scanner in between 1 to 5, while 5 was the best score; it scored 4.5 and still it is the record. You can't go wrong with the Acunetix vulnerability scanner.




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