Odds are stacked against website owners

Incidents of web site hacked are increasing at phenomenal rate, cybercrime is on the rise. Cybercrime is costing businesses over a trillion dollars in losses worldwide. Companies are blackmailed that the stolen data would be sold in the black market. Even law enforcement cannot protect you. Against this backdrop studies have found more than 70% of web sites can be hacked.

Are you sure your website is protected?

It is a misconception that firewall and SSL will protect your data from being compromised. Your web site is not safe because you have SSL or your web hosting company provides firewall and all the network protections. Unfortunately, all the network protections (firewall, SSL, and like) are not effective against attack on web applications. This is because network has to keep access to the web site open and that is the route hackers take to attack web sites.

Are you going to wait till you find out? It may be happening as you read this and you never know. An Italian bank fell victim for months before they discovered that too when customers complained about browser problems. Remediation costs are increasing, each data breach can cost upwards of $100 per record to fix.

A stitch in time...

Find the vulnerabilities and fix them before the hackers find out. Surely, you have virus protection on your computer and you run them periodically. So should you scan your web site not just when it is in production but even while it is being developed. If you are developing in-house, ensure that your development team scans the application during all stages of development or if you have contracted to third party, insist of scanning report along with your periodic updates.

Why are web applications at security risk?

Easy target
 More than 70% websites are vulnerable (studies)
 SSL, Network, OS securities cannot protect web apps.
 Attack passes as normal traffic through the network and firewall
 Only getting attention recently
Lucrative Easy access to confidential information - identity theft is a huge market
Low investment and high returns mean high ROI for a hacker
Economy
 Large number of software professionals without jobs -layoffs or fresh out of schools/colleges

Web Vulnerability Scanner

A web vulnerability scanner literally conducts and attack on your web pages just as many hacker would. It will first crawl through the site to gather information and then conduct attack for a large suite of vulnerabilities, more than all the hackers combined.

Acunetix is a leading web vulnerability scanner. Easy and quick installation and simple to use. Few clicks and you generate an easy to use report in easy to read, print, and distribute format. Each vulnerability found is prioritized according to its severity. With suggestions to fix the vulnerability, Click here for a complete list of all the tests performed by Acunetix and watch a video.