Introduction to Vulnerability Scanner Tools
Web Application Vulnerability Scanners, also known as Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST). Tools scan networks and web applications, which are automated tools for predicting security vulnerabilities like SQL Injection, Cross-site Scripting, Command Injection, Insecure Server Configuration, and Path Traversal and their effectiveness. These tools describe security threats and generate a prioritized list for security patching. Security patching can be automated. Vulnerability scanning can be done by the service provider of these tools or the IT department. It also provides steps to remediate vulnerabilities.
List of Vulnerability Scanner Tools
Given below is the list :
1. Netsparker
It identifies vulnerabilities in web applications and web APIs, such as SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting. And you don’t have to spend hours manually testing the found vulnerabilities once a scan is complete. This is available as an application for Windows and as an online application.
Features of Netsparker:
- It supports automatically crawling and scanning all modern as well as legacy web applications such as Web 2.0, HTML5, password-protected web assets, and Single Page Applications (SPA).
- It has an Asset Discovery service that continuously scans the web on the basis of IP addresses, domains, and SSL certificate details.
- Netsparker uses scalable Scanning Agents that report to the main application and effectively use multiple IT resources to reduce scan times.
- Users can create custom reports using their own templates.
- It also supports the validation of compliance reports like ISO 27001, HIPAA reports, and PCI DSS by third parties.
- It has built-in vulnerability management and team management, which helps in assigning issues, creating roles, reviewing remediation processes, and retesting vulnerabilities after completion.
2. Acunetix
Acunetix is also an automated web vulnerability scanner that detects and generates reports of over 6500 vulnerabilities+, which includes all types of SQL Injection as well as XSS and complex password-protected areas.
Features of Acunetix:
- The Accunetix Dashboards provide scanning details clearly and concisely.
- It detects over 1200 WordPress themes, core, as well as plugin vulnerabilities.
- It is Fast & Scalable in that it can crawl hundreds of thousands of web pages without any interruptions.
- It provides the most advanced Cross-site Scripting and SQLi testing, and DOM-based XSS detection.
3. EasyDMARC
EasyDMARC is a robust solution for managing email security and domain authentication through DMARC, SPF, and DKIM protocols. The Domain Tester tool on EasyDMARC provides comprehensive diagnostics for your domain, identifying potential vulnerabilities and ensuring email deliverability and security.
Features of EasyDMARC:
- Domain Authentication: EasyDMARC simplifies the implementation of DMARC, SPF, and DKIM protocols, ensuring your email domain is protected against phishing and spoofing attacks.
- Smart Reporting: The platform offers AI-powered reporting that visualizes email-sending traffic and provides actionable insights through a user-friendly interface.
- Real-Time Monitoring: Stay updated with critical security threats and receive alerts for broken records or potential domain abuse.
- Permission Management: Manage multiple domains effortlessly with streamlined access control and domain group configurations.
- Expert Support: EasyDMARC offers world-class support to assist you throughout your email authentication journey, ensuring optimal platform use without the need for technical expertise.
With its intuitive interface and powerful tools, EasyDMARC helps businesses secure their email domains, enhance email deliverability, and maintain a robust domain reputation.
4. SolarWinds Network Vulnerability Detection
SolarWinds has a Network Configuration Manager to detect Network Vulnerability as it is an automated tool so it deploys firmware updates quickly to network devices. It will ease and enhance network compliance.
Features of Solarwinds:
- It provides management, monitoring, and security to network configurations.
- It prevents unauthorized changes in network configuration.
- It continuously audits network switches and routers for compliance.
- It provides fast recovery for security disaster
5. Wireshark
Wireshark is a popular and widely used network protocol analyzer. It is mostly used for training purposes in educational institutions, companies, and government agencies, to understand the networks and vulnerabilities at a microscopic level. Platforms like Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Mac support it.
Features of Wireshark:
- Wireshark allows us to capture the vulnerabilities online and perform the recovery and analysis offline.
- It inspects various protocols in depth.
- Captured network data can be browsed through GUI or via the TTY-mode TShark utility.
- It provides the best display filters.
- The output of the analysis can be exported to plain text, XML, CSV, PostScript.
- It provides VoIP analysis.
6. Nessus
Tenable Network Security develops Nessus. It is a popular tool for vulnerability assessment and configuration issues. Nessus prevents the networks from various vulnerabilities in the system as well as attacks performed by hackers with the help of identifying the vulnerabilities at the earliest.
Features of Nessus:
- It supports a wide range of applications, OS, DBs, and network devices in physical and virtual networks as well as cloud infrastructure.
- It scans the vulnerabilities which are responsible for remote hacking for stealing sensitive data within a system.
- It analyses the vulnerabilities based on threat severity which needs more attention along with high-speed, minimal false positives, and extensive scanning.
7. Aircrack
It focuses on areas of WiFi security such as monitoring the data and data packets testing the drivers, replay attacks, and password cracking. It supports various OS such as Windows, Linux, OS X, NetBSD, and Solaris.
Features of Aircrack:
- It retrieves the lost keys by capturing the data packets.
- It is widely used in network auditing.
Conclusion
In this article, we have seen various tools used for web application vulnerability scanning along with their features. You can choose any of the tools based on your system’s requirements.
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