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 * Acunetix** is a security company that develops a web vulnerability scanner which allows companies to find potential security issues in their web applications. The company was founded in 2004 and its product has been on the market since early 2005. The Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is an automated black box scanner that checks for web vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, Cross Site scripting and other vulnerabilities.

Website security is possibly today's most overlooked aspect of securing the enterprise and should be a priority in any organization. Hackers are concentrating their efforts on web-based applications - shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content, etc. Web applications are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and control valuable data since they often have direct access to backend data such as customer databases

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner includes many innovative features:
 * Acusensor Technology
 * An automatic client script analyzer allowing for security testing of Ajax and Web 2.0 applications
 * Industries' most advanced and in-depth SQL injection and Cross site scripting testing
 * Advanced penetration testing tools, such as the HTTP Editor and the HTTP Fuzzer
 * Visual macro recorder makes testing web forms and password protected areas easy
 * Support for pages with CAPTHCA, single sign-on and Two Factor authentication mechanisms
 * Extensive reporting facilities including VISA PCI compliance reports
 * Multi-threaded and lightning fast scanner crawls hundreds of thousands of pages with ease
 * Intelligent crawler detects web server type and application language
 * Acunetix crawls and analyzes websites including flash content, SOAP and AJAX
 * Port scans a web server and runs security checks against network services running on the server

These features of which are paramount to any other web security application around. Acuentix uses top of the line technology to locate, state and repair web vulnerabilities on servers and websites and for this reason is essential in every web designers tool kit.

A simple WebScan of out very own Mater Dei Catholic College Website reveals just how essential this software is: