{"id":11283,"date":"2019-06-07T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/?p=11283"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:23:20","slug":"7-security-testing-tools-to-try-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/testing-tools\/7-security-testing-tools-to-try-now\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Security Testing Tools to Try Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s never too soon to assess the security of your application with these great penetration testing tools<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember the Equifax breach in 2017 which affected nearly one in three Americans? Or the 2018 Marriott breach that compromised 500 million accounts in its database? It\u2019s very hard to forget! Even if your company is not a household name, it\u2019s imperative to proactively protect your applications and data before it\u2019s too late, with losses already incurred and your company\u2019s reputation diminished. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Software security testing is performed to ensure that software systems and applications are free from any vulnerabilities, threats, and risks that may cause these tremendous losses. Security testing of any system is about finding all possible loopholes and weaknesses of the system which might result in a loss of information, revenue, and reputation caused by employees or malicious external hackers. With the information provided from testing, development teams can fix any vulnerabilities before malicious hackers exploit them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some widely recommended tools for penetration testing and ethical hacking so you can get ahead of potential attackers and avoid detrimental business outcomes. If you need more knowledge about security, get informed with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.findcourses.com\/search\/it-security-training-courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.findcourses.com\/search\/it-security-training-courses&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1609796205268000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFK7UYksHoHpRUJdqM2ZCyoTGetrw\">cybersecurity training<\/a>&nbsp;in order to maximize the use of these tools and do not miss any details that could break through your security strategy<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Acunetix\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">1. Acunetix&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acunetix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acunetix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for vulnerabilities like SQL Injection, cross site scripting and other exploitable vulnerabilities. In general, Acunetix scans any website or web application that is accessible via a web browser and uses the HTTP\/HTTPS protocol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acunetix offers a strong and unique solution for analyzing off-the-shelf and custom web applications including those utilizing JavaScript, AJAX and Web 2.0 web applications. It has an advanced crawler that can find almost any file.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automatically test for XSS, SQLi and over 4500 exploitable vulnerabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduce false positives with grey-box scanning that analyzes code during execution<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Test for over 1200 WordPress, Drupal and Joomla! specific vulnerabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scan HTML5, JavaScript, Single Page Applications and RESTful web services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vulnerability management and compliance reporting<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Standard: $4,495<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team: $6,995<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise Plus for over 20 targets: Contact vendor<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Acunetix, it\u2019s possible to easily find and report many types of web weaknesses such as SQL injection, blind SQL injection, cross site scripting, CRLF injection, code execution, directory traversal, file inclusion and authentication bypass. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detailed penetration scenarios can be performed with Acunetix&#8217;s HTTP Editor, HTTP Sniffer, HTTP Fuzzer, WVS Scripting Tool and Blind SQL Injector tools for advanced penetration testing processes. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the support of captcha, single sign on and two factor authentication, Acunetix can adapt to any kind of Web application.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Burp_Suite\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">2. Burp Suite<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portswigger.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Burp Suite<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an integrated platform for performing security testing for web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application&#8217;s attack surface through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities. Burp gives you full control, letting you combine advanced manual techniques with automation to make your work faster, more effective, and maybe even more fun. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-2\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proxy: Lets you inspect and modify traffic between your browser and the target application. You can change form methods from GET to POST or vice-versa, unhide hidden fields, enable disabled fields, remove secure flag from cookie and more. The HTTP History tab is an index of all your requests, which lets you to plan your next actions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spider: Burp uses this tool to automate the mapping of an application. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scanner: The automated Active scanner can interact with your web application and detect simple security issues like if the password is being submitted in GET method or advanced vulnerabilities like Remote Code Execution and SQL Injections. You can set the speed of scanning, pause and resume, choose scan areas and more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intruder: Meant for exploitation and automating attacks. Most of the attacks against web applications are about sending a lot of data and making sense of the responses, so Intruder is a request sender and response collector. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repeater tool: You can select a request from Target or other sources and send it to Repeater to further tamper and play-around with the request by changing the data being sent, request method, cookie values and many other client side values.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-2\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community: Free*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professional &#8211; $399.00\/ year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise Edition &#8211; $3,999\/ year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*For researchers and hobbyists<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-2\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decoder tool in Burp Suite does the job of encoding and decoding data. A web application penetration tester needs to be able to understand the type of encoding that has been applied and then successfully decode the piece of data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comparer tool: Useful for when you want to see how different values for parameters and headers enable subtle changes in the responses that you receive. It allows you to see how the application reacts to a valid user, invalid password combination compared to an invalid user and invalid password combination. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you might be working on multiple projects for a client, the ability to Save State and Restore State come in handy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_NetSparker\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">3.&nbsp;NetSparker<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netsparker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NetSparker<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> automatically exploits identified vulnerabilities in a read-only and safe way and also produces a proof of exploitation. Therefore, you can immediately see the impact of the vulnerability and do not have to manually verify it. In third party independent benchmark tests, the Netsparker web application security scanner identified all the direct impact vulnerabilities, thus outperforming other scanners. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-3\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check web applications for XSS, SQL injection and other exploitable vulnerabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scan any type of web application built with PHP, .NET, JAVA or any other language<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scan both custom made and modern Web 2.0 and HTML5 Web applications<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check your web applications for coding errors that result in security vulnerabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generate regulatory compliance and legal web application security reports<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-3\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Standard: $4995\/yr*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team: $7995\/yr*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise: Contact vendor<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pricing based on multi-year contracts<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-3\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netsparker has out of the box support for several popular issue tracking, CI\/CD and other services used in development environments. Though if you use a system for which Netsparker does not have out of the box support you can always use the REST API. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It works with Proof-Based Scanning, an exclusive technology that automatically verifies identified vulnerabilities, proving they are and not false positives.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Nmap\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">4.&nbsp;Nmap<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nmap<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Network Mapper) is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters\/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-4\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supports dozens of advanced techniques for mapping out networks filled with IP filters, firewalls, routers, and other obstacles. This includes many port scanning mechanisms (both TCP &amp; UDP), OS detection, version detection, ping sweeps, and more. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most operating systems are supported, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX, Mac OS X, HP-UX, NetBSD, Sun OS,Amiga, and more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Nmap offers many advanced features for power users, you can start out as simply as &#8220;nmap -v -A targethost&#8221;. Both traditional command line and graphical (GUI) versions are available to suit your preference. Binaries are available for those who don\u2019t &nbsp;want to compile Nmap from source.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-4\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NMap is free and open source.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-4\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nmap has been used to scan huge networks of hundreds of thousands of machines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Significant effort has been put into comprehensive resources for it such as whitepapers, tutorials, and even a book. You can find them in multiple languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s well supported by a vibrant community of developers and users. Most of this interaction occurs on the Nmap mailing lists. You can also find Nmap on Facebook and Twitter.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">5. OWASP Zed Attack Proxy<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The security testing tool we use the most at Abstracta, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaproxy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OWASP Zed Attack Proxy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ZAP) is one of the world\u2019s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by hundreds of international volunteers. It can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you develop and test your applications. It\u2019s also a great tool for experienced penetration testers to use for manual security testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-5\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detect any of these threats: SQL injection, broken authentication and session management, cross-site scripting (XSS), broken access control, security misconfiguration, sensitive data exposure, cross-site request forgery (CSRF), underprotected APIs, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generate reports of the results<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Passive and automated scanner<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-5\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free\/Open source<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-5\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s designed to be used by both beginners and professionals<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cross-platform &#8211; works across all OS (Linux, Mac, Windows)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Sboxr\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">6. Sboxr<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sboxr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sboxr<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a tool for testing and debugging web applications, especially JavaScript heavy apps. Sboxr works by sitting in between the browser and the server and injecting it\u2019s own JS code (called DOM sensor) that monitors the JS usage, sources, sinks, variable assignments, function calls etc. when the site is being used. It then presents, via its web console, a view of the various flows that user controlled data took in case the data ends up in an execution sink.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-6\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can be used by Dev, QA and Security teams, with a minimal learning curve<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detailed reporting to help in understanding, validating and remediating the identified issues<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automatic discovery of over 30 DOM Security issues: code execution issues, cross-site communication issues, data leakage issues, weak cryptography issues, sensitive data storage issues, malicious libraries issues, and more<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-6\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sboxr with basic support: $999*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sboxr with professional support: Custom pricing**<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Billed annually for 5 users, $199 for every additional user<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">**Billed annually<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-6\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sboxr finds issues by just browsing through your site, there\u2019s almost no learning curve<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The creators of Sboxr will help you in understanding, validating or remediating issues through its professional support<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_VAddy\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">7. VAddy<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vaddy.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VAddy<\/a> helps developers to code securely and find vulnerabilities in new features while preventing teams from running security scans at the last minute and identify bad coding trends. It\u2019s useful because it\u2019s compatible with all languages, integrates easily with CI tools like Jenkins and TravisCI, and performs security checks and audits automatically on every build. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read our post here on how to add security checks with VAddy to your CI pipeline.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Features-7\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Key Features<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run black box security tests for SQL injection and XSS, remote file inclusion, command injection, directory traversal vulnerabilities on URL path parameters, web applications, forms that use CSRF tokens, and more<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlimited free scanning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boasts great support for continuous integration with a Web API, Jenkins plugin, Travis and Circle CI integrations, etc<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its proprietary security scanning engine uses machine learning <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can check the requests that VAddy uses to find vulnerabilities and using this information allows you to reproduce attacks and fix your web application\u2019s code.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pricing-7\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">Pricing<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free two-week trial<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starter plan: ~ $55\/ month<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professional: ~ $180\/ month<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Makes_it_Unique-7\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3056a2;\">What Makes it Unique?<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the easiest tool to use if you want to add security checks into your CI pipeline<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no tool to install or any special settings to configure<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you used any of these software security testing tools in your projects? How were your experiences with them?<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recommended_for_You\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recommended for You<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/security-testing\/security-testing-continuous-integration-vaddy\/\">Security Testing in Continuous Integration with VAddy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/how-to-choose-a-software-testing-company\/\">How to Choose a Software Testing Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Go to www.addthis.com\/dashboard to customize your tools --><script src=\"\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-58d80a50fc4f926d\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s never too soon to assess the security of your application with these great penetration testing tools Remember the Equifax breach in 2017 which affected nearly one in three Americans? 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