Acunetix announce Sino-European Collaboration with JW & Associates

Chinese market to benefit from localized web security scanning solution

London, UK – July 2016 – Acunetix, a global leader in web application security testing is pleased to announce a Sino-European partnership with JW & Associates in Shanghai, a leading information security service provider, offering advanced web security services to the Chinese market.

Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner is the tool of choice for many customers worldwide in the Government, Military, Educational, Telecommunications, Banking, Finance, and E-Commerce sectors, including many Fortune 500 companies. This partnership enables Acunetix to offer its cutting-edge web security solution to small, medium and large enterprises across China.

AQ DOG Security SaaS Platform Powered by Acunetix

JW & Associates have launched AQ DOG Security SaaS platform a new Information Security cloud product powered by Acunetix. Executed from the web, it can perform precision scans using the state-of-the-art Acunetix scanning technology. SaaS mode takes advantage of high speed analyses, security monitoring and vulnerability databases, easily accessed from an easy-to-use website by subscriber customers.

“The Acunetix scanner provides cutting-edge vulnerability detection and is the only product on the market that can detect out-of-band vulnerabilities automatically. Through this partnership, Chinese businesses can now ensure their web security posture is up to scratch, with an easy-to-use, cost-effective solution offered in Chinese,” announced Chris Martin, Acunetix General Manager.

“We are delighted to be collaborating with Acunetix on this project and are honoured to be entrusted as their platform for distribution within China. As pioneers in our respective fields, we have worked together with Acunetix for a number of years and have since established a strong business relationship. Through this partnership we are confident we can continue to provide advanced high-quality services to our clients, in our commitment to improve China’s security systems,” said Jonathan Yan, Founder and Chairman of JW Associates.

About Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner

Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner, automatically crawls and scans off-the-shelf and custom-built websites and web applications for SQL Injection, XSS, XXE, SSRF, Host Header Attacks and over 3000 other web vulnerabilities. The Acunetix scanning engine fully interprets and scans websites, including HTML5 and JavaScript with the lowest number of false positives and the ability to access restricted areas with ease. Acunetix also has the most advanced detection of WordPress, Drupal and Joomla! vulnerabilities.

About JW & Associates

JW & Associates (PRC) Co., Ltd. is a leading information security service supplier founded in 2009, with registered capital of 5.7 million RMB. Headquartered in Shanghai, with offices in Hong Kong, Jiangsu and Shandong, it has gradually been recommended as the industry-leading security vulnerability scanning service provider by the Shanghai Information Security Association, Shandong Province Network Security Corps and the Guangdong Provincial Information Security Association. The company provides tens of thousands of professional scanning services for major companies and integrators each year. JW & Associates have been highly recognized in the industry, gaining pre-A round of strategic funding from the Shanghai Science Investment Group, which ensures support and recognition from Government.

About Acunetix

Acunetix is the market leader in automated web application security testing, and is the tool of choice for many Fortune 500 customers. Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner detects and reports on a wide array of web application vulnerabilities. Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner’s industry leading crawler fully supports HTML5 and JavaScript and AJAX-heavy websites, 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-premises solution.