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Penetration Testing Tools

Compare the Top Penetration Testing Tools of 2021

Penetration Testing Tools Guide

What are Penetration Testing Tools?

Penetration testing software tools enable security professionals to test applications and IT systems to identify vulnerabilities. Penetration testing tools, sometimes known as "pen testing" tools, can simulate a hack or attack in order to test the security of a given application or system. Compare the best Penetration Testing tools currently available using the table below.

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    Acunetix

    Acunetix

    Acunetix

    Acunetix is the market leader in automated web application security testing, and is the tool of choice for many Fortune 500 customers. Acunetix detects and reports on a wide array of web application vulnerabilities. The Acunetix industry leading crawler fully supports HTML5 and JavaScript and Single-page applications, allowing auditing of complex, authenticated applications. Acunetix provides the only technology on the market that can automatically detect out-of-band vulnerabilities and is available both as an online and on premise solution. Acunetix also includes integrated vulnerability management features to extend the enterprise’s ability to comprehensively manage, prioritise and control vulnerability threats – ordered by business criticality. Acunetix integrates with popular Issue Trackers and WAFs and is available on Windows, Linux and Online
    Starting Price: $4,495 per year
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    Netsparker

    Netsparker

    Netsparker

    Netsparker web application security scanner automatically detects SQL Injection, Cross-site Scripting (XSS) and other vulnerabilities in all types of web applications, regardless of the technology they are built with. Netsparker is easy to use and employs a unique and dead accurate proof-based scanning technology that automatically verifies the identified vulnerabilities; so you do not have to manually verify them. Netsparker is available as desktop software and as an online scanning service and is trusted by world renowned companies such as Samsung, NASA, Microsoft, ING bank, Skype and Ernst & Young.
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    Starting Price: $4,995 per year
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    Saint Security Suite

    Saint Security Suite

    Carson & SAINT

    This single, fully integrated solution conducts active, passive and agent-based assessments while its extensive flexibility evaluates risk according to each business. SAINT’s impressive, flexible and scalable scanning capabilities set it apart from many others in this space. SAINT has partnered with AWS, allowing its customers to take advantage of AWS’s efficient scanning. Should subscribers prefer, SAINT also offers a Windows scanning agent. Security teams can schedule scans easily, configure them with considerable occurrence flexibility and fine-tune them with advanced options.
    Starting Price: $1500.00/year/user
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    Nessus

    Nessus

    Tenable

    Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment. From the beginning, we've worked hand-in-hand with the security community. We continuously optimize Nessus based on community feedback to make it the most accurate and comprehensive vulnerability assessment solution in the market. 20 years later and we're still laser focused on community collaboration and product innovation to provide the most accurate and complete vulnerability data - so you don't miss critical issues which could put your organization at risk. Today, Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment.
    Starting Price: $2190.00
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    Defendify

    Defendify

    Defendify

    Cybersecurity doesn't have to complicated and expensive. Defendify features 12 cybersecurity tools in 1 easy-to-use web-based platform with simplified program management, risk scoring, alerts, notifications, reports, recommendations, and more. Defendify delivers comprehensive cybersecurity that is simple, flexible, and affordable. Free version available at www.defendify.io/essentials. Everything to strengthen your cybersecurity through a single, consolidated platform. Backed by award-winning technology, expertise, and support. See your cybersecurity data at a glance: health grade, alerts, reports, recommendations, products and services, users, devices, and more. Easy to access, easy to understand. Online, all the time. Understand where you stand and what to improve. Our ongoing checkups present you with a real-time cybersecurity health grade. Know what's going on with your users, systems, and devices while keeping up with emerging threats.
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    GamaShield

    GamaShield

    GamaSec

    Web applications and Web Malware are proving to be the weakest link in overall corporate security. Organizations need a Web application scanning solution that can scan for security loopholes in Web-based applications to prevent would-be hackers from gaining unauthorized access to corporate applications and data and to prevent the injection suspicious files and malware. GamaSec's Web application scanner, which protects applications and servers from hackers, is an automated security service that searches for software vulnerabilities within Web applications. A Web application scanner crawls the entire website, analyzes in-depth each & every file, and displays the entire website structure. The scanner performs an automatic audit for common security vulnerabilities while launching a series of simulated Web attacks.
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    ImmuniWeb

    ImmuniWeb

    ImmuniWeb

    ImmuniWeb SA is a global application security company operating in over 50 countries, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Most of ImmuniWeb customers come from regulated industries, such as banking, healthcare, and e-commerce. ImmuniWeb® AI Platform leverages award-winning AI and Machine Learning technology for acceleration and intelligent automation of Attack Surface Management and Dark Web Monitoring. The data is later leveraged for a threat-aware and risk-based Application Penetration Testing for web, mobile, and API security testing. ImmuniWeb is the only company that offers a contractual zero false-positives SLA with a money-back guarantee. ImmuniWeb’s AI technology is a recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including Gartner Cool Vendor, IDC Innovator, and the winner of “SC Award Europe�? in the “Best Usage of Machine Learning and AI�? category. ImmuniWeb® Community Edition runs over 100,000 daily tests, being one of the largest application security communities
    Starting Price: $199/month
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    Quixxi

    Quixxi

    Quixxi Security

    Quixxi Security assesses applications so you understand what vulnerabilities they have. It allows you to conduct penetration testing of apps and puts a secure encryption wrapper around applications so malware can’t access them or the data they handle. So, while your applications work as intended, unauthorised access to them is prevented as they remain almost invisible to malicious software.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    Burp Suite

    Burp Suite

    PortSwigger

    Burp Suite is a leading range of cybersecurity tools, brought to you by PortSwigger. We believe in giving our users a competitive advantage through superior research. Each new edition of Burp Suite shares a common ancestor. The DNA running through our family tree represents decades of excellence in research. As the industry has shown time and time again, Burp Suite is the tool you can trust with your online security. We designed Enterprise Edition with simplicity as a top priority. Discover easy scheduling, elegant reports and straightforward remediation advice - all in one powerful package. The toolkit that started it all. Find out why Burp Pro has been the penetration testing industry's weapon of choice for well over a decade. Nurturing the next generation of WebSec professionals and promoting strong online security. Community Edition gives everyone access to the basics of Burp.
    Starting Price: $399 per user per year
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    Titania Nipper
    Manage your network risks with Nipper our accurate firewall and network configuration audit tool. Nipper discovers vulnerabilities in firewalls, switches and routers, automatically prioritizing risks to your organization. Our virtual modelling reduces false positives and identifies exact fixes to help you stay secure. Analyzing the configurations and interactions of your network infrastructure with the expertize of a skilled penetration tester, Nipper’s unrivaled accuracy can save Network Administrators up to 3 hours per audit, per device. Instead of spending time investigating false positives of non-compliance, Nipper enables you to dedicate your valuable resources to analyzing and prioritizing fixes by providing visibility of actual network vulnerabilities including existing false-negatives, significantly fewer false-positives to investigate, automated risk prioritization, and precise remediation with exact technical fixes.
    Starting Price: $47.67
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    Pentest-Tools.com

    Pentest-Tools.com

    Pentest-Tools.com

    The Dashboard allows you to have a quick overview of your scan results. It is a good place to see your scan activity, a graphical summary of the discovered vulnerabilities and the list of your latest scans. We strive to make the reports as friendly and human-readable as possible. Each tool report starts with a graphical summary of the results and continues with the Findings section. Here you can find details about each uncovered vulnerability, including description, evidence, risk and recommendations for fixing it. The Enterprise plan allows you to create white label reports, meaning that your own logo will appear in the report instead of ours. You can continuously monitor the security of your systems by scheduling periodic scans. They can run daily, weekly or monthly at a certain hour that you are choosing. Furthermore, you can receive the scan reports directly to your own email or to a different email address of your choice.
    Starting Price: $65 per month
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    Cobalt Strike

    Cobalt Strike

    Cobalt Strike

    Adversary Simulations and Red Team Operations are security assessments that replicate the tactics and techniques of an advanced adversary in a network. While penetration tests focus on unpatched vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, these assessments benefit security operations and incident response. Cobalt Strike gives you a post-exploitation agent and covert channels to emulate a quiet long-term embedded actor in your customer’s network. Malleable C2 lets you change your network indicators to look like different malware each time. These tools complement Cobalt Strike’s solid social engineering process, its robust collaboration capability, and unique reports designed to aid blue team training.
    Starting Price: $3,500 per user per year
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    Detectify

    Detectify

    Detectify

    Domain and web application security. Automated security and asset monitoring for all teams. Scan your web apps for 1500+ vulnerabilities and track assets across your tech stack. Detectify performs automated security tests on your web application and databases and scans your assets for vulnerabilities including OWASP Top 10, CORS, Amazon S3 Bucket and DNS misconfigurations. 150+ handpicked ethical hackers contribute security findings that are built into our scanner as automated tests. Their submissions go beyond the known CVE libraries that are not a sufficient test bed for modern application security. Integrate security into your SDLC with Detectify’s Deep Scan, a web app scanner that simulates hacker attacks. Using real payloads rather than version testing enables us to produce accurate scan results and go beyond standard CVE libraries.
    Starting Price: $60 per month
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    API Critique

    API Critique

    Entersoft Information Systems

    API critique is penetration testing solution. A major leap in REST API Security has been achieved with our first in the world pentesting tool. With the growing number of attacks targeted towards APIs, we have an extensive checks covered from OWASP and from our experiences in penetration testing services to provide comprehensive test coverage. Our scanner generates the issue severity based on CVSS standard which is widely used among many reputed organizations. Your development and operations teams can now prioritize on the vulnerabilities without any hassle. View all the results of your scans in various reporting formats such as PDF and HTML for your stakeholders and technical teams. We also provide XML & JSON formats for your automation tools to generate customized reports. Development and Operations teams can learn from our exclusive Knowledge Base about the possible attacks and countermeasures with remediation steps to mitigate the risks to your APIs.
    Starting Price: $199 per month
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    Appknox

    Appknox

    Appknox

    Push world-class mobile apps faster into the market without compromising on security Build and deploy world-class mobile apps for your organizations at scale and leave your mobile app security to us. Highest Rated Security solution on Gartner We rejoice when the Appknox system secures our client’s app against all vulnerabilities. At Appknox we’re dedicated to delivering Mobile Application Security to help businesses achieve their objectives today and in the near Future. Static Application Security Testing (SAST). With 36 different test cases, Appknox SAST can detect almost every vulnerability that’s lurking around by analyzing your source code. Our tests cover security compliances like OWASP Top 10, PCI-DSS, HIPAA and other commonly used security threat parameters. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST). Detect advanced vulnerabilities while your application is running.
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    NVADR

    NVADR

    RedHunt Labs

    Discover, track and secure your exposed assets. You provide us the seed information, such as your company domain(s). Using 'NVADR', we discover your perimeter attack surface and monitor for sensitive data leakage. A comprehensive vulnerability assessment is performed on the discovered assets and security issues with an actual impact are identified. Continuously monitor the Internet for code / secret information leakage notify you as any such information about your organization is leaked. A detailed report is provided with analytics, stats and visualizations for your organization's Attack Surface. Comprehensively discover your Internet Facing Assets using our Asset Discover Platform, NVADR. Identify verified and correlated shadow IT hosts along with their detailed profile. Easily track your assets in a Centrally Managed Inventory complimented with auto-tagging and Assets classification. Get notification of newly discovered assets as well as attack vectors affecting your assets.
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    Bugcrowd

    Bugcrowd

    Bugcrowd

    Crowdcontrol’s advanced analytics and security automation connect and enhance human creativity to help you find and fix more high priority vulnerabilities, faster. From intelligent workflows to robust program performance tracking and reporting, Crowdcontrol provides the insights needed to multiply impact, measure success, and secure your business. Crowdsource human intelligence at scale to discover high-risk vulnerabilities faster. Take a proactive, pay-for-results approach by actively engaging with the Crowd. Meet compliance and reduce risk with a framework to receive vulnerabilities. Find, prioritize, and manage more of your unknown attack surface.
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    Cyver

    Cyver

    Cyver

    Change the way you deliver pentests, with cloud pentest management tools, complete with automated reporting & everything you need to deliver Pentest-as-a-Service. Scale workloads with cloud tooling to automate reports & project management, so you can get back to pentesting. Cyver imports work data from tools like Burp Suite, Nessus, NMap, & more to fully automate reporting. Customize report templates, link projects, map findings to compliance controls, and generate pentest reports with one click. Plan, manage, and update pentests, in the cloud. We deliver tooling for client collaboration, pentest management, & long-term scheduling. No more Excel, no more email, and everything in one place, Cyver’s pentest management portal. Offer schedulable, recurring pentests, with client data and vulnerability management, complete with findings-as-tickets, actionable insights like threat analysis and compliance mapping dashboards, and direct communication.
    Starting Price: €99 per month
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    Cobalt.io

    Cobalt.io

    Cobalt

    Cobalt is a Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform that simplifies security and compliance needs of DevOps-driven teams with workflow integrations and high-quality talent on-demand. Thousands of customers simplify security and compliance with Cobalt. Every year, customers are doubling the amount of pentests they conduct with Cobalt. Onboard pentesters quickly using Slack. Test periodically to drive continuous improvement and ensure full asset coverage and meet PCI, HIPAA, SOC-2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and more. Get your pentest up and running within 24 hours. Directly integrate pentest findings into your SDLC, and collaborate with our pentesters (in-app or on Slack) to speed up triage, remediation, and retesting efforts. Tap into a diverse global community of rigorously vetted pentesters. Match up with a team that has the expertise and skills to match your tech stack. Talent matching from our highly skilled pentester pool guarantees quality findings.
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    SecurityForEveryone

    SecurityForEveryone

    SecurityForEveryone

    S4E:Shelter automatically understands the technology you have, prioritizes and performs security assessments optimized for your application without the need for technical expertise. S4E:Shelter is an automated security assessment tool that detects the tech stack of your assets and their vulnerabilities using machine learning, and offers actionable solutions to you. Your security is up to date. S4E:Solidarity is an API gateway to make the cybersecurity process easier for apps. So, developers can integrate the security process into their development cycle. S4E:Equality is a repository of more than 500 free cybersecurity assessment tools. Anyone can use these tools to detect security vulnerabilities according to their specific needs. S4E:Education is a security awareness training platform that helps you learn about the fundamentals of cybersecurity using quizzes and social engineering attacks.
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    Horizon3.ai

    Horizon3.ai

    Horizon3.ai

    Horizon3.ai® can assess the attack surface of your hybrid cloud, helping you continuously find and fix your internal and external attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero is an unauthenticated, run-once container you deploy yourself. No persistent agents and no provisioned credentials, up and running in minutes. With NodeZero, you own your pen test from start to finish. You configure the scope and attack parameters. NodeZero conducts benign exploitation, gathers proof, and delivers a complete report, so you can focus on real risk and maximize your remediation efforts. Run NodeZero continuously and evaluate your security posture over time. Proactively identify and remediate attack vectors as they appear. NodeZero discovers and fingerprints your internal and external attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults.
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    CyBot

    CyBot

    Cronus Cyber Technologies

    Perform continuous scans all year round, valid for both vulnerability management and penetration testing to stay on top of your network’s security 24/7. See live map and get real-time alerts on current threats to your business processes. Cybot can be deployed globally and showcase global Attack Path Scenarios so you can see how a hacker can hop from a workstation in the UK to a router in Germany to a database in the US. This capability is unique both for penetration testing as well as for vulnerability management. The various CyBot Pros will be managed by a single enterprise dashboard. CyBot brings context to each asset it scans, checking how it could affect a business process. In this way, you can funnel all your vulnerabilities and first focus on those that are exploitable and that are a part of an attack path to a critical asset or business process. This greatly reduces the resources needed for patching and ensures business continuity.
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    Outpost24

    Outpost24

    Outpost24

    Understand your attack surface with a unified view and reduce cyber exposure from an attacker’s view with continuous security testing across networks, devices, applications, clouds and containers. Having more information alone won’t help you. Even the most experienced security team can be blindsided by the sheer amount of alerts and vulnerabilities they have to deal with. Powered by threat intelligence and machine learning our tools provide risk-based insights to help prioritize remediation and reduce time to patch. Our predictive risk based vulnerability management tools ensure your network security is proactive – helping you reduce time to remediation and patch more effectively. The industry’s most complete process to continuously identify application flaws and secure your SDLC for safer and faster software releases. Secure your cloud migration with cloud workload analytics ,CIS configuration assessment and contain inspection for multi and hybrid clouds.
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    Data Theorem

    Data Theorem

    Data Theorem

    Inventory your apps, APIs, and shadow assets across your global, multi-cloud environment. Establish custom policies for different types of asset groups, automate attack tools, and assess vulnerabilities. Fix security issues before going into production, making sure application and cloud data is compliant. Auto-remediation of vulnerabilities with rollback options to stop leaky data. Good security finds problems fast, but great security makes problems disappear. Data Theorem strives to make great products that automate the most challenging areas of modern application security. The core of Data Theorem is its Analyzer Engine. Utilize the Data Theorem analyzer engine & proprietary attack tools to hack and exploit application weaknesses continuously. Data Theorem has built the top open source SDK called TrustKit, used by thousands of developers. Our technology ecosystem continues to grow so that customers can continue to secure their entire Appsec stack with ease.
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    PlexTrac

    PlexTrac

    PlexTrac

    Our mission at PlexTrac is to improve the posture of every security team. Whether you work for a SMB, are a service provider, an individual researcher, or are a part of a large security team, there's something for you here. PlexTrac Core offers all of our most popular modules, including Reports, Writeups, Asset Management, Custom Templating and more. It's perfect for smaller security teams and individual researchers. PlexTrac also has many add-on modules that boost the power of PlexTrac. These modules make PlexTrac the ultimate platform for larger security teams. Add-on modules include Assessments, Analytics, Runbooks, and more! PlexTrac provides cybersecurity teams unparalleled power when it comes to reporting security vulnerabilities and other risk-related findings. Our parsing engine allows teams to import findings from their favorite vulnerability scanners, including Nessus, Burp Suite, and Nexpose.
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