Does Acunetix detect if a Target website is behind a web application firewall?

The use of a Web Application Firewall to protect web applications is very often considered a best practice. However, by the very nature of what WAFs are designed to do, they interfere with the scans made by Acunetix. Because of this, when Acunetix scans your Target website, it analyzes the responses to identify whether the Target is protected by a web application firewall and reports this as an informational alert.

🔍 Acunetix Scans - Targets with & without WAFs

To get a true understanding of the robustness of your web application, you should arrange to have a staging version of the Target web application that is NOT protected by a WAF.

Acunetix can detect the following WAFs:

360WangZhanBao

dotDefender

Profense

Accenture ZScaler

DynamicWeb

Radware AppWall

aeSecure

eEye SecureIIS

Reblaze

Airlock

ExpressionEngine

RSFirewall!

Akamai Kona Site Defender

F5 FirePass

Sabre WAF

Alert Logic WAF

F5 Traffic Shield

Safe3 WAF

Aliyundun

FortiWeb

SafeDog

Anquanbao

GoDaddy Website Protection

Sakura SiteGuard

AnYu Technologies WAF

Greywizard

Sitelock TrueShield

Approach

HyperGuard

SonicWall

Armor Defense

IBM DataPower

Sophos UTM

ASP.NET RequestValidation

IBM Proventia

StackPath

ASP.NET URLScan

iFinity URLMaster

Sucuri

Astra Protection

Imperva SecureSphere

Tencent Cloud WAF

Barikode

Imunify360

Teros/Citrix Application Firewall Enterprise

Barracuda

Incapsula WAF

USP Secure Entry Server

Barracuda NetContinuum

Instart DX

Verizon Edgecast

Bekchy

ISA Server

Viettel WAF

BinarySec

Janusec

VirusDie

BitNinja

Jiasule

Wallarm WAF

BlockDoS

KnownSec KS-WAF

WatchGuard

Bluedon

Malcare

WebARX

CacheWall

Mission Control Application Shield

WebKnight

CdnNs WAF

ModSecurity

WebSEAL

ChinaCache CDN

Naxsi

WebTotem

Chuang Yu Shield

Nemesida

Wordfence

Cisco ACE XML Gateway

Neusoft SEnginx

WTS-WAF

Citrix Netscaler

NevisProxy

XLabs Security

Cloudbric

NewDefend

Xuanwudun

Cloudflare WAF

Nexusguard WAF

Yunaq Chuangyu

Cloudfront

NinTechNet NinjaFirewall

Yundun

Comodo cWatch

NSFocus

Yunjiasu CDN (Baidu)

CrawlProtect

Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall

Yunsuo

Distil

PerimeterX

Zenedge

DOSarrest

pkSecurityModule IDS

ZScaler

 

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