Top 4 Open Source Security Testing Tools to Test Web Application

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Acunetix

It discovers open ports and running services; assesses the security of routers, firewalls, switches, and load balancers; tests for weak passwords, DNS zone transfer, badly configured Proxy Servers, weak SNMP community strings and TLS/SSL ciphers, among others. It integrates with Acunetix Online to provide a comprehensive perimeter network security audit on top of the Acunetix web application audit.

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2

Netsparker

Netsparker uniquely verifies the identified vulnerabilities proving they are real and not false positives, so you do not need to waste hours manually verifying the identified vulnerabilities once a scan is finished.

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3

Zed Attack Proxy

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4

Burp Suite

It is a tool that is used for performing security testing of web applications. It has professional as well as community editions. With over 100 predefined vulnerability conditions it ensures the safety of application, Burp suite applies these predefined conditions to find out the vulnerabilities.

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5

SonarQube

Though written in Java, it can analyze over twenty different programming languages. It can easily integrate with continuous integration tools like Jenkins server, etc. The results will be populated to the SonarQube server with ‘green’ and ‘red lights’.

#Code Analysis #Code Review #Code Coverage 1 social mentions

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Klocwork

For quick identification, Klocwork highlights the issue raised ‘line of code’, cites the cause of the issue and suggests few measures to overcome the same.

#Code Analysis #Code Coverage #Code Review