Most vulnerability management platforms are designed to help organizations manage infrastructure risk. They identify vulnerabilities in operating systems, endpoints, network devices, and cloud assets, but often provide limited visibility into the web applications and APIs that attackers increasingly target.
Acunetix provides vulnerability management software purpose-built for web applications and APIs. Combining automated dynamic application security testing (DAST) with vulnerability tracking, remediation workflows, and reporting, Acunetix helps organizations continuously manage application-layer risk throughout the vulnerability lifecycle.
With Acunetix, security teams can automatically scan websites, web applications, and APIs for thousands of security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, helping identify exploitable weaknesses before attackers do.
Move beyond vulnerability scanning
Finding vulnerabilities is only one part of an effective security program. Organizations also need to understand which findings represent real risk, track remediation progress, verify fixes, and maintain visibility into security posture over time.
Acunetix helps teams move from vulnerability scanning to vulnerability management.
When vulnerabilities are discovered, Acunetix automatically catalogs and tracks them throughout the remediation process. Security and development teams can prioritize findings, assign remediation tasks, retest vulnerabilities after fixes are applied, and maintain a complete record of vulnerability status.
By validating many vulnerabilities automatically, Acunetix helps teams focus on actionable findings instead of spending valuable time investigating noise. This allows developers to prioritize issues that can affect running applications while reducing the effort required to verify results manually.
The result is a more efficient application security process that helps teams focus on reducing real risk.
Manage vulnerabilities from discovery to remediation
Acunetix supports every stage of the web application vulnerability management lifecycle:
- Discover web applications and APIs that require security testing
- Continuously identify vulnerabilities through automated DAST scanning
- Prioritize security issues based on severity and business impact
- Track vulnerabilities throughout the remediation process
- Verify fixes through retesting
- Measure progress through centralized reporting and dashboards
Security teams can integrate Acunetix with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bugzilla, Mantis, and other tools to streamline remediation workflows and improve collaboration between security and development teams.
For organizations with compliance requirements, Acunetix also provides technical and regulatory reporting aligned with frameworks and standards such as PCI DSS v4, HIPAA, and the OWASP Top 10.
With centralized visibility into vulnerabilities, remediation status, and application security trends, Acunetix helps organizations strengthen security posture across their web applications and APIs while reducing operational overhead.
See how Acunetix helps security teams focus on real application risk instead of managing scan noise. Request a demo to explore automated DAST scanning, validated findings, API security testing, and vulnerability management workflows in a single platform.
Frequently asked questions about vulnerability management software
Vulnerability management software helps organizations identify, assess, prioritize, track, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities. Unlike vulnerability scanners that only detect issues, vulnerability management solutions support the full lifecycle of managing risk from discovery through remediation.
How is web application vulnerability management different from traditional vulnerability management?
Traditional vulnerability management tools primarily focus on infrastructure assets such as servers, endpoints, operating systems, cloud resources, and network devices. Web application vulnerability management focuses on websites, web applications, and APIs, including risks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), broken authentication, insecure APIs, and other application-layer vulnerabilities.
Many organizations use dedicated tools for different layers of their attack surface. Infrastructure vulnerability management platforms help secure systems and networks, while web application vulnerability management solutions focus on identifying and managing vulnerabilities within applications and APIs. Together, they provide broader security coverage.
Most infrastructure-focused scanners are designed to identify missing patches, configuration issues, and known vulnerabilities in systems and devices. Modern web applications and APIs require specialized testing techniques that analyze application behavior, user inputs, authentication workflows, and business logic to uncover application-specific vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability scanning identifies potential security issues. Vulnerability management includes scanning but also covers prioritization, validation, remediation tracking, retesting, reporting, and continuous monitoring. Effective vulnerability management helps organizations reduce risk rather than simply collect scan results.
Dynamic application security testing evaluates running web applications from an external perspective, similar to how an attacker would interact with them. DAST helps identify vulnerabilities that are exposed in production-like environments and provides continuous visibility into application risk as part of an ongoing vulnerability management program.
Acunetix uses advanced testing and validation techniques to help security teams focus on actionable findings. By automatically validating many vulnerabilities and providing evidence to support findings, Acunetix reduces the effort required to investigate results and helps development teams remediate issues with greater confidence.
Modern applications rely heavily on APIs to exchange data and provide functionality. APIs often expose sensitive business logic and data while remaining less visible than traditional web interfaces. Effective vulnerability management must include API discovery, security testing, and ongoing monitoring to help organizations secure their full application attack surface.
Organizations should look for capabilities such as automated vulnerability scanning, API security testing, vulnerability tracking, remediation workflows, validation of findings, reporting, compliance support, integrations with development tools, and centralized visibility into application security posture.
Acunetix tracks vulnerabilities throughout their lifecycle, helping teams assign work, monitor remediation progress, retest resolved issues, and maintain an auditable record of security activities. Integrations with issue tracking and development platforms help streamline remediation workflows and improve collaboration across teams.
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