Whitepapers on Web Security

The Invicti AppSec Indicator

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Report

We’ve created the Invicti AppSec Indicator to bring you useful data and insights about the state of web application security and how security pros are addressing the challenges in an increasingly complex landscape. The Indicator will draw on anonymized data from our products, market research, and insights collected from our customers, partners, and the industry.

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Using DAST to Get the Most out of WAFs

Web application firewalls (WAF) are powerful tools that improve the security of web assets. However, to attain web application security, a web application firewall is nowhere near enough and should not be treated as the primary security measure. In this white paper, we take a look at how web application firewalls work and how they should be used to get the most out of their capabilities without hindering your web security.

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Web Application Security – Enterprises Are Losing the War

Acunetix teamed up with Dimensional Research to conduct a survey and learn how effectively enterprises are handling web application security. Unfortunately, the results were not very optimistic. This report contains the results of the survey analysis with explanations and commentaries.

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Acunetix Web Application Vulnerability Report 2020

Every year, Acunetix crunches data compiled from Acunetix Online into a vulnerability testing report that portrays the state of the security of web applications and network perimeters. This year’s report contains the results and analysis of vulnerabilities detected over the previous 12 months, across 5,000 scan targets.

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The Future Is the Web! How to Keep It Secure?

The web is everywhere and it’s not an exaggeration. To secure your systems, you muwhst secure web interfaces. However, enterprise security faces a much bigger problem than potential new attack vectors. Businesses grow quickly but the number of security experts available for hire does not keep up. This Acunetix white paper shows you the methods that you can use to improve the security of all your web interfaces and reduce the workload for your security personnel, thus mitigating the skill gap.

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White paper: Acunetix Web Application Vulnerability Report 2019

Every year, Acunetix crunches data compiled from Acunetix Online into a vulnerability testing report that portrays the state of the security of web applications and network perimeters. This year’s report contains the results and analysis of vulnerabilities detected over the previous 12 months, across 10,000 scan targets.

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