Comments on: Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 6 Review

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:37:20 +0000

Thanks for the review.

The last time I used acunetix (more than a year ago) it was clearly inferior to other application scanners like Appscan or HP WebInspect.

However, acutenix is way cheaper (by a factor of 3 or 4).

Have you tested other scanners, how do you range them comparing to Acunetix ?

By: ethicalhack3r

ethicalhack3r — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:45:54 +0000

I have also played around with AWVS in the past and found it to be a great tool however it is very noisy and would be useless at the beggining of a black box test. I suppose in a black box enviroment it could be used towards the end of the pen test, just to make sure you havent missed anything out while manually testing. I have also heard that in some cases it has produced DoS’s.

By: DJ Olson

DJ Olson — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:03:59 +0000

THis is a nice tool and I agree some more new nice features. But for automated assessing of your web apps I would go with Cenzic. It has greater flexibility, larger vuln library and is awhole lot more mature of a solution. I have used this for about a year and recommend it to those who want to move from manually doing the testing to automating it. They are a pretty cool bunch of people too. Small company that answers the phone. I tried their free tools but went up to their Pro version – more capabilities. They will let you test drive the pro. I emailed their support and just asked.

By: devturkler

devturkler — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:53:19 +0000

Thanks acunetix is very nice scanner.

By: Brooks

Brooks — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:55:16 +0000

I use this tool quite often for clients who want their web content examined and it is truly a wonderful application. A+ on the review and 2 huge thumbs up to Accunetix. Awesome work!

By: CoL_ShaD

CoL_ShaD — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:56:48 +0000

I personally think this is a great tool that every webmaster should have in order to keep things secured and running good. One of the features that like is “Crawiling Options.” This program gives you everything needed to discover weaknesses in code or any flaw.