Re: Opinions on Burp Suite Web App Scanner

Dear Jon,

Webscarab was my #1 but after using Burp I had to hand over the #1
title to Burp Suite. Many 'on-the-fly' options for testing makes it a
pentesters best friend. You can also refer to this article if you want
more information about different scanners and their accuracy:
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20100203/accuracy-and-time-costs-of-web-application-security-scanner-report/

Regards,
Meenal Mukadam


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Ben de Bont <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> BurpSuite is my pen-test teams tool of choice.  The spider and scanner are
> great, and it has a lot of other functionality that is very useful.  It is
> also cheap - get it.
>
> - Ben de Bont
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Opinions on Burp Suite Web App Scanner
>
> I have budget for a web app vulnerability scanner, and I was wondering if
> anyone has opinions on the professional version Burp Suite with the scanner
> option.
> Is the scanner any good? Accurate?
>
> This is the website if anyone doesn't know what it is:
> http://portswigger.net/burp/scanner.html
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
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