Top 6 Web Vulnerability Scanner Tool
Web site
security is very important because the website contain relevant
information about a company and now a days website defacement is very
common even a script kiddies and a new born hackers can do this. The
most common vulnerability like SQL-Injection and cross site scripting
lead towards the defacement.
So you want to
secure your web application than find vulnerabilities on it before a
hacker find it, try to use some relevant tools and find vulnerabilities
and fix it. There are so many tools available for both Windows and Linux
platform and commercial and open source tool. Below is the best web
vulnerability scanner tool that we have discussed before.
OWASP or Open Web Application Security Project
is a non profit organisation world wide that are focusing on improving
the security of web application, for more about OWASP click here.The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool
for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It has an automatic
scanning functionality and it has a set of tools that allow you to find vulnerability manually.
W3af is a Web
Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project goal is to create a
framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is
easy to use and extend. w3af is working for Become the best Open Source
Web Application Exploitation Framework. It is available on Backtrack 5
too.
Skipfish is an automatic web application security tool,
that has been designed to find the vulnerabilities on a web
application, find vulnerability on your website before than a hacker
find and exploit it. It is also available on Backtrack 5.
Nikto is one of
the best open source web vulnerability scanner tool that is available on
the famous Linux distribution like Backtrack, Gnacktrack,Backbox and
others. You can use it on other distribution and on windows too because
it is only need perl script.
Netsparker is a
commercial tool that has been designed to find the vulnerabilities on
web application, the free version of netparker is also available so you
can download it and can use for a quick penetration testing on a web
application.
Websecurify is a
cross operating system tool that can be run on Windows, Linux and MAC.
It is the best tool to find the common web vulnerabilities that can
cause a great harm to the web application.
This is just a
small list of the best tools you can use Wapiti, Grendel scan and other
tools to perform the job, you have any other tool in mind than do share
it with us via comment box.
