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Acunetix (by Invicti) is a cyber security solution offering automatic web security testing technology that enables organizations to scan and audit complex, authenticated, HTML5 and JavaScript-heavy websites to detect vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQL Injection, and more.

Access Controls/Permissions

Activity Dashboard

Activity Monitoring

AI/Machine Learning

Alerts/Notifications

Application Security

Assessment Management

Asset Discovery

Asset Tagging

Audit Management

Audit Trail

Compliance Management

Data Security

Endpoint Management

Endpoint Protection

Firewalls

Incident Management

IOC Verification

Issue Tracking

Monitoring

Network Scanning

Network Security

Password Protection

Penetration Testing

Policy Management

Prioritization

Reporting/Analytics

Risk Alerts

Risk Analysis

Risk Assessment

Risk Management

Runtime Container Security

Search/Filter

Security Auditing

Simulated Threat Attacks

Source-Code Scanning

SQL Injections

Third-Party Integrations

Threat Protection

Threat Response

Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Protection

Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization

Web Scanning

Web-Application Security

Website Crawling

Orca Security

Invicti

Good thing for a web application pentesting, can give You insight of a present vulnerabilities. Would recommend using in tandem with infrastructure scanner (like Nessus) to create a complete testing solution. Also presence of continous scanning and scheduler could be used for a regular security assesment of Your web applications.

Simple, but very powerful web vunlerability scanner

Thank you for your feedback ¿ we¿re glad that Acuneix is working for you.

Regarding your comment about choosing what to scan for ¿ you can already do this in Acunetix, although the feature is slightly hidden away in Settings > Scan Types. Here you can create your own custom Scan Types, and you will be able to choose which vulnerabilities to check for. When creating a new custom Scan Type, you can filter the vulnerability checks from the top right hand corner of the page.

Remember that you can also easily retest for a specific vulnerability identified in a previous scan.

Continuation of the cons section (number of chars was limited).

* Settings are sometimes unclear, an info icon with a popup would be nice.

 Example 1: In the "Site Structure" of a scan it is possible to press "exclude", does it exlude the path from futre scans? If so why don't I see anything in the target settings? Or does "exlude" exclude vulnerabilities from the report? BTW after pressing exlude I'm not able to "include" it again.
 
 Example 2: "scan speed", how many threads per setting are we talking about?


* Would definitly like to get some more feedback from scans directly in the interface, what is it doing, why did it fail, did all the "allowed hosts" got scanned etc. I know you can debug a target, but this is not what I mean. 



Ok tool, but fix your business model and add more settings to the interface

Thank you for your honest feedback:

As you rightly say, we try to keep an easy to use interface, with the intention of automatically detecting the best way to scan the site. There are some settings which are not used by most of our customers, and which can be manually tweaked from the settings file.

I think you might have missed the little help icon at the top right corner of the Acunetix interface. When clicked, this provides help on the settings loaded in the current page. But to answer your queries:

Example 1 - When you Exclude a path from the Site Structure, the exclusion will be stored with the Target, and will affect subsequent scans. You can delete the exclusion from the Target settings.

Example 2: this is explained on our website at https://www.acunetix.com/blog/docs/configure-scan-speed-acunetix/. I have forwarded your comment about the scan feedback to the product team.

Regarding licensing, I would suggest that you get in touch with our sales team, who can work

Great for developers for self evaluation

Good web application vulnerability scanner but not recommended.

Thank you for your candid feedback.

During an automated scan, Acunetix will make a lot of requests, some of which will invalidate the session. Acunetix is able to automatically detect this and will login to the web application to continue scanning the restricted area. As regards false positives, we would be very interested in getting to know about these. Would you be able to forward samples to our team at support@acunetix.com?

Acunetix is quite a strong tool for web assessments even though it did not support other types of assessments. Both on prem and cloud scanners are available. Less false positives compared to other tools and price is a bit expensive. Lots of options available to download reports.  Overall its a good tool for web assessment. 

Best Web assessment tool 

One of the best Web Security Scanners!

Thank you for your feedback. As of 16th May 2019 Network Scanning is now available with Acunetix on-premise.

Acunetix always gives me a very good first impression

Thank you for your feedback.

We are planning on integrating the Acunetix Login Sequence Recorder in the Acunetix web UI. This will make it easier to record login sequences moving forward. If all goes well, we will have this feature in place by the end of Q3 / beginning Q4 this year.

Scanning made Simplified

I use Acunetix to scan our Websites and web applications, usually on the test machines, in order to spot vulnerabilities before moving things to production. The nice thing with Acunetix is that you can schedule automated scans, daily, weekly or monthly, so you can just check the reports with the affected items.

Automated Web Vulnerability Scanning with Acunetix

Thank you for an excellent review. We are really happy Acunetix is working out for you

We use on premise solution. Great solution for small and big enterprises 

Acunetix perfect vulnerability manager solution

Most user friendly vulnerability scanner i've used 

Thank you for taking the time to review Acunetix. We are glad you like our new dashboard. We will look at improving our support process.

We use cloud solution. It can be used by small and big companies 

Perfect vulnerability management solution

Thank you for your positive review. We are very happy that Acunetix is working out well for you.

This is the best and easiest tool to Scanning for Penetration testing

Overall Review of Acunetix

Great tool supporting secure SDLC process

Thank you for your feedback. We are happy you are satisfied with the product.

Good detection rate, great performance overall

Great product but grossly over priced for small businesses

I mostly use it as the first tool to analyze an unknown website, especially for black-box activities.

Very good price/performance ratio (at least with the old licensing scheme)

Thank you for your feedback. We will take your suggestion about real-time scanner monitoring into consideration for future builds.

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