Acunetix Reviews

Our primary use case is scanning our websites for security flaws.

The usability and overall scan results are good.

The vendor messed up our contract when they changed the licensing scheme and downgraded our license without any notification. It was dropped from a premium license with unlimited scan targets to a professional license with 10 targets per year. This is insufficient for us because we have about 50 public websites, and twice that number between internal and development sites. We ran out of scanning targets after only two months, so we have been evaluating other products since then.

There is room for improvement with respect to technical support.

We were having trouble with our Active Directory Federation Services. They couldn't work out how to authenticate the websites.

There is room for improvement in website authentication because I've seen other products that can do it much better.

We have been using the Acunetic Vulnerability Scanner for seven years.

We have not had any problems with stability.

Scalability has not been a problem except when it comes to licensing.

Technical support was not overwhelmingly good, but it was okay. They couldn't provide solutions to every problem that we encountered, although they helped us from time to time.

The pricing is not as good as we expected. I would say that Acunetix is expensive because there are products on the market with similar features that are equally or better-priced.

When we started with Acunetix seven years ago, it was quite good in terms of being competitively priced. It was up to the task and financially suitable. Now, however, with the change in the licensing scheme, it is a rather large step in terms of price. It has gone up by a factor of 30 in the past two years.

Our experience with Acunetix has not been good, so we are in the process of switching solutions.

The product is quite good, but their sales techniques are poor and the sales teams need to be improved. They also should have provided a lot more information about the new licensing scheme when they changed it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We have quite a few applications that we scan. We have a requirement to meet PCI DSS compliance and we deal with it by producing reports on a quarterly or a part-quarterly evaluation. We are customers of Acunetix and I'm the executive director of our company. 

We're happy with Acunetix although we're currently looking for a more cost effective solution. There might be a better product on the market and we're looking for that. What I gather from my colleagues who do the scanning is that this solution picks up any weaknesses in terms of our application setup as well as reading our application and finding the weaknesses. We need that PCI DSS report which is important for us. The solution is comprehensive and easy to use. 

The costs for the licensing have changed and it's not in our favor which is why we're now looking at other options. One of our issues is that Acunetix only supports web scanning, no mobile app for now. If they were to include that it would mean not having to work on two separate tools. 

I've been using this solution for three years. 

We've raised some minor issues with support. There are certain aspects that Acunetix cannot power and we haven't been able to resolve those problems yet. 

I don't believe there are issues with scaling.

I think that generally their customer service is quite responsive. Whenever we encounter problems or new external applications, they're willing to guide us through the process. 

I think the company previously used Netsparker and that was even more expensive than Acunetix. 

Licensing is on an annual basis and we pay the standard licensing fee directly to Acunetix.

The solution meets our requirements, it's just that we were moved from a perpetual license to an annual license and that has significantly increased our annual fees. Here in Bangladesh, we're trying to check comparable products in the same price range and see what they offer. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

The solution's most valuable feature is its capability to scan the rest APIs. 

They should include the features for reporting in the solution's next release. Also, a dashboard feature could help us view scanning targets segregated into different categories. In addition, there should be a feature to export the data into Excel Spreadsheet.

We have been using the solution for 15 years.

The solution is highly stable. I rate its stability an eight out of ten.

I rate the solution's scalability a four out of ten. Our clients are enterprise businesses. Also, we have two solution users in our organization.

For standard use cases, we deploy it on a notebook or a desktop machine. In case of integration with a development system, we deploy it on a server or a virtual memory machine. I rate the solution's initial setup process a five out of ten.

The solution is expensive. Its price is based on the number of targets. It has an annual subscription plan and costs around HK$500,000. I rate its pricing a nine out of ten.

I advise others to stay connected to the solution online to ensure the license is up-to-date. I rate it an eight out of ten.

The most valuable feature of Acunetix is the UI and the scan results are simple.

There are some versions of the solution that are not as stable as others.

I have been using Acunetix for approximately two years.

The stability of Acunetix is good.

Acunetix is scalable.

We have approximately 50 engineers using Acunetix.

I have requested support from the vendor regarding our scan results that have false positives. The vendor double checks and adds a patch if needed. However, their response is too slow.

I have used previously used other solutions, such as Aspen and Laguna. We chose Acunetix because it is easy to use.

The initial installation of Acunetix was simple.

We did the deployment of the solution ourselves. We have approximately 20 people that do the support and deployment of Acunetix.

I rate Acunetix an eight out of ten.

The solution is primarily used purely as a web-based vulnerability scanning tool.

The solution is a very flexible tool.

Overall, it's a very good tool and a very good engine.

The product is very scalable.

We found the solution to be quite stable.

For the number of features on offer, the price point is quite good.

The installation is very straightforward.

The solution should work on dealing with the number of false positives it delivers.

While we do have it integrated with other solutions, it could still offer more integrations.

I've been dealing with the solution for the past two years.

The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It does not crash or freeze. It's very good.

The solution is scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so with relative ease.

Right now, we have four or five of our customers using the product.

The solution's technical support is okay. We have no complaints. They are helpful and responsive and we are satisfied with their level of service. 

The initial setup is not too complex. It is simple and straightforward. A company should be able to implement it with ease.

The price point is good. It offers very good value for money.

We are resellers.

We deal with various deployment models including on-premises and the cloud.

I'd recommend the solution to other companies. This is a very good tool for vulnerability assessment. Every organization who has their assets over the internet and are exposed to a public website needs to have vulnerability assessment using Acunetix.

In general, I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

Our primary use case is to secure web applications, especially against cross-scripting and other forms of malware that happen at an application level.

The scalability is good. The scalability is more than good because it can operate both as a standalone and it can be integrated as part of applications. So that really makes it a very, very versatile solution to have.

We want to see how much bandwidth usage it consumes. When we monitor traffic we have issues with the consumption and throttling of the traffic. 

We've been using Acunetix since 2017.

It is a stable solution. It doesn't have a lot of false positives. You get your logs and reports without any problems. 

I haven't contacted technical support because I'm supposed to be the first line of their support. If I need to contact their support, it's because I have problems beyond my scope. 

The initial setup was really straightforward. You can do it even if you're not an expert, you just need to download the appliance from their website and then you deploy. It took a few hours. 

I would recommend Acunetix.

Everything is going cloud-based. They should consider implementing SD-WAN abilities. It will give them the longevity they need.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. Even though some solutions are cloud-native by definition, they are not really next generation because the next generation is fully cloud and properly load balanced.

For the last two years, we've primarily used the solution for specific scanning of external web applications for some of our clients.

For us, the most valuable aspect of the solution is the log-sequence feature.

The main components covering most of the SQL injection findings are quite useful.

We've never faced any maintenance issues.

The solution limits the number of scans. It would be much better if we could have unlimited scans.

We've been using the solution for almost two years now.

We've found the solution to be quite stable. We haven't had any issues with it at all.

The scalability of the solution is quite good. We've never faced any issues with scaling.

Currently, 15 people use the solution in our organization. They're all developers and consultants. We use it every day.

For now, everything about the solution has been fine, so we haven't reached out to technical support.

Before switching to this solution we used the Burp Suite Pro. We switched because we found this solution's findings more accurate. It has better performance.

The initial setup was very straightforward. It was easy. We didn't find it complex at all. The initial setup only takes one to two hours.

I didn't implement the solution personally, however, one of my colleagues did. The installation was handled in-house.

We buy the license annually.

We're Acunetix customers. I'm not sure which version number we are using, but it is the latest one.

Overall, I believe Acunetix to be one of the best products on the market. I'd recommend it. it's very reliable.

I'd rate it seven out of ten.

This solution is a WAF (web application firewall). The primary use case of this solution is to secure web applications against cross-site scripting and other forms of malware that occur at the application level.

We last used Acunetix in December and we have switched to Barracuda.

The scalability is more than good. It can operate both as a standalone and it can be integrated with other applications, which makes it a very versatile solution to have. 

This solution is simple enough, especially with the cloud. You can download the client onto your machines and then you start filtering your traffic from there.

An area that we wanted to test was if it will tie bandwidth and does it throttle traffic?

How much bandwidth usage does it consume when it sorts out the traffic. When monitoring the traffic we always have issues with the bandwidth consumption and the throttling of traffic.

Everything now is moving to the cloud. If they would consider SD1 possibilities, it would give it the longevity that it needs in the market. They may not need it, as they would be able to integrate it with other SD1 platforms as an extra feature.

By definition, they are not next-generation. The next-generation is fully cloud, properly load-balanced, and you would want something that is tailored along those lines from the get-go. It would give you more deployment, less support, and less technical hands looking at the solution.

We have been dealing with Acunetix since 2017. 

We provide services to our clients.

It's a stable solution. It doesn't report a lot of false positives or false negatives. You can put it on and look at your logs and your reports.

This solution is scalable.

I haven't contacted technical support because I am supposed to be the first line of their support. Contacting them would mean that I have problems beyond my scope.

We are now doing a profile on Barracuda because we are partners but we don't have clients yet. It is very difficult to profile because we don't have a live environment. The only way we could have a live environment is if we deploy it in-house.

We deployed in-house to test the cloud solution and we are moving to LV1 solutions within our MSP.

We were bringing everything on top of a CASB, a cloud broker for security. We had to look at different solutions to see what could be brought on top of the CASBplatform and what we would be leaving out from the previous partnerships. We wanted to look at a different solution.

The initial setup is straightforward. You just need to download the client from the website or get a license from them, then you can deploy it.

It can take a couple of hours or less to deploy.

We have a team in the company.

This is a solution that I would recommend.

I would rate it an eight out of ten.