What is a Web Vulnerability Scanner?

It happens most of the time that these agencies neglect what should have been the main concern of their group.

Activities of the hackers commonly focus on the exploitation of common web-based applications including forms, shopping carts, log-in pages, dynamic content, and others applications that are similar in nature.

It has been discovered through detailed examination of the hackers’ movements that web applications are mostly targeted because of its openness.

It is a common knowledge that users can access web applications anytime within 24 hours of a day and seven days of a week.

Online criminals also find web applications the easiest to aim at since these contain control valuable data, which permits access to the backend data like the customer database.

 

It has already been proven that SSL firewalls

As well as locked-down servers are deemed to be useless against the attacks being aimed at web applications.

In addition, protection at the network security level is also viewed as inadequate since hackers initiate their assault on web application via the port 80, an area that needs to be accessible at all times.

Hence, web vulnerability scanner becomes a necessity so as to provide full security on the websites.

The scanner is very much essential since it can automatically examine websites and it can detect the security threats that may possibly be abused by the online crooks.

This tool is very useful since it can detect various code vulnerabilities such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS), File Disclosure, SQL Injection, Remote File Inclusion, Directory Traversal, as well as PHP or ASP Code Injection.

 

Vulnerability Scanner SQL Injection Cross Site Scripting

SQL Injection attacks and specially blind SQL injection can lead to full system compromise and theft of sensitive data from the database.

Attackers are sophisticated in their ways to find new ways in to break SQL systems and access the data.