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Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner

By Karen Carter


Website vulnerabilities are a serious problem for all of the people who are somehow related to any kind of network or website business. Before starting the discussion, we need to know what is a vulnerability? A vulnerability is the presence of security holes in the web application. Now the obvious next big question is how to solve this issue.

Acunetix vulnerability scanner can also be used for scanning the website and application utilities for vulnerability. Then it uses the penetration testing for the issues which are already identified. Once the vulnerability is explored, then the mitigation suggested for every weak sector and hence the suggestions are used to increase the security for the website and also the applications which are just tested.

The spiral features of the Acuentix scanner crawls a website and displays hierarchical view of the site structure. The target finder is a portable simple scanner that is planned to find websites running in a range of given addresses. HTTP viewer and sniffer allow you to view, edit or close http requests. This is designed to estimate the traffic between the server and client. The sniffer also allows rechecking, changing of data before sending it to server.

Acunetix vulnerability scanner is easy and straight forward to install. It has automatic updating that is already built in to the program. Once it is finished updating it does not require any restart. The scanner divides the task by function and works very quickly and efficiently. The scanner is able to check the cross site scripting and SQL injection. It has a spider feature that crawls the website and presents a hierarchical view of the site structure.

Acuentix scanner is an excellent product to protect any web-based applications. It offers several benefits such as quick processing, many tools for multiple tasks, high detection rate of threats and does not ignore minor vulnerabilities.




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