Tools to Test Website Security

Mar 29, 2017 Samantha Burgess

Most of the virus comes to the system through application which is uploaded on internet that can corrupt the system and the application which is on system. We cannot fully stop using application which is on internet, so, the best thing is; use those applications securely by using website security testing tool.

NTOSpider

It is a Windows based web security tool, provides full security to the web applications/services, mobile, and rich internet applications (RIA’s). The most important thing is, it scans your application fully in less time, provides full security to the system at very less cost.

Link:ntospider-application-security-scanner

Brakeman v2.6.

It is an open source scanner, checks Ruby on Rails apps for security vulnerabilities, available for Jenkins/Hudson and works on Rails 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x. It statically examines Rails application code to discovery security problems at any stage of development.

Link:brakemanscanner

SiteDigger v3.0

It is expert in examining Google’s cache, errors, configuration problems, proprietary information, and remarkable security nuggets on websites.

Having very good user interface and provides real time result in result page with ability to save signature selection and result set, Google API License Key is not required to access this tool. It runs on All Windows OS required Microsoft .NET Framework v3.5.

Link:sitedigger

Netsparker

A cross-platform web application security scanner is helpful in detecting and reporting website/web application vulnerabilities (SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting (XSS)) and security issues, no matter on which platform and technology the website/web application has built-in.

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NMap (Network Mapper)

A cross-platform web security scanner, written by Gordon Lyon (Fyodor) founder of hosts and services on a computer network.

This scanner delivers correct packets to the target machine and examines the response comes from there. Earlier, Nmap was only for Linux, but it is for Microsoft Windows, BSD variants – Mac OS X, AmigaOS, Solaris, HP-UX, , andSGI IRIX.

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OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project)

A cross-platform online security project/community, involves worldwide organizations, educational organizations and individuals to focus on security on web applications by creating free articles, documentations, techniques, and tools.

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