Re: Opinions on Burp Suite Web App Scanner

I second Fabio...
If you want to verify your web app is secure, then get a pentester to
do the job.
Burp is meant to be a helping hand to the pentester, not an assurance tool.

BR,
Ioannis (Yiannis) Koukouras
CISSP, CISA, CISM
MSc in Computer Systems Security
BEng in Electronic Engineering
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ikoukouras
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Meenal Mukadam
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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