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RE: Web Application Tester
From: "A.R." <r00t () northernfortress net>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:44:34 +0000
I think that when having to choose between a free and a commercial tool, it's all about figuring out the return of investment. If it takes one week to manually inspect an application with nikto+wget+webscarab+achilles+spike, and only 1 day using Appscan for the "grunt" work plus 2 days for the manual refinement, the 4 days I gain are worth more than the ~1,000 dollars I have to spend for a 7-days Appscan license. In the end, I usually prefer to use Paros (free tool), but I think that in some situations AppScan/WebInspect can be at least worth a look, even if their price makes them look unprofitable at first sight. NB: I have never used AppDetective, so I am not saying in any way that the other tools are better Just my 2 cents, of course :) A. On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 15:27, chuan.delahosseraye () accenture com wrote:
According to my previous search on a Web pen-test tools, AppScan, WebInspect and Scando are all much more expensive than AppDetective. If cost is a concern, it might be possible to combine a selection of free tools such as: - Nessus - Nikto - WebScarab - Achilles But this would involve a lot of Manual works. Hope this helps Chuan -----Original Message----- From: A.R. [mailto:r00t () northernfortress net] Sent: 15 September 2004 12:27 To: andrew () beegads com Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Web Application Tester Andrew, I don't know what's your budget, but for web applications you can try the following commercial products: - AppScan, by Sanctum (www.sanctuminc.com) - WebInspect, by Spidynamics (www.spidynamics.com) - ScanDo, by Kavado (www.kavado.com) ...Or the good ol' Paros (http://www.proofsecure.com/download.shtml), open source and free Hope this helps Alberto Revelli Northern Fortress, Inc. On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 22:49, Andrew Bagrin wrote:Does anyone know of an application tester similar to AppDetective thats not as hard on the pocket book? I need to pentest a web app and am looking for some tools Thanks,
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Current thread:
- Re: Web Application Tester, (continued)
- Re: Web Application Tester brennan stewart (Sep 16)
- Re: Web Application Tester Danux (Sep 15)
- Re: Web Application Tester Mambo Dsouza (Sep 16)
- Re: Web Application Tester GUsh-T (Sep 16)
- Re: Web Application Tester Darren Bounds (Sep 21)
- Re: Web Application Tester mkraisi (Sep 15)
- RE: Web Application Tester Hayden Searle (Sep 15)
- Re: Web Application Tester Mambo Dsouza (Sep 16)
- RE: Web Application Tester John Floyd (Sep 16)
- RE: Web Application Tester chuan.delahosseraye (Sep 16)
- RE: Web Application Tester A.R. (Sep 18)
- RE: Web Application Tester dseth (Sep 17)
- RE: Web Application Tester BĂ©noni MARTIN (Sep 17)
- RE: Web Application Tester Bowes, Ronald (EST) (Sep 18)
- RE: Web Application Tester Lachniet, Mark (Sep 21)
- Re: Web Application Tester petercheung (Sep 23)
- RE: Web Application Tester Todd Towles (Sep 24)