Data hacks and identity theft have been making the headlines in recent years, making the security of your website more important than ever before. This is especially true if you handle financial transactions through your company’s site, as you’ll be processing your customers’ sensitive financial data. Fortunately, you have many tools available to you to help ensure your website is as secure as possible.
ScanMyServer
ScanMyServer provides a comprehensive report of vulnerabilities throughout your website and on your server. It can identify PHP code injection, SQL injection, blind SQL injection, HTTP header injection and other scripting vulnerabilities.
Vega
Vega is a security scanner designed for use with web applications. It provides an easy-to-use interface that makes the process as streamlined as possible, even for those who are unfamiliar with web security testing.
Metasploit
Metasploit makes use of the latest ethical hacking techniques to detect website vulnerabilities. This is what is known as penetration testing and has become more and more popular in recent years.
Sucuri
Sucuri is a free website scanner that can detect viruses and malware. It can also identify and website errors or broken code, as well as out-of-date software. It can even alert you if your website has been blacklisted.
Qualys SSL Server Test
This tool analyzes the configuration of your SSL web server and is designed specifically for secure (https) websites. You’ll get in-depth analysis of your URL to help you identify vulnerabilities. This includes your site’s expiration day, SSL/TLS version, overall security rating, protocol details and more.
Wapiti
Wapiti scans for a variety of vulnerabilities in web applications. Similar to penetration testing, this application injects data to see if various scripts are vulnerable to attacks. It is capable of detecting file disclosure and inclusion vulnerabilities, site configuration issues, and a variety of injection complications.
Wireshark
Wireshark is another penetration testing application. It specializes in analyzing network protocols, getting into the tiniest details of your packet information and decryption.
Skipfish
Skipfish crawls through your website, one page at a time, to detect any vulnerabilities in the code. This open source web application is free to download and use, and it is optimized for HTTP handling.
Detectify
Detectify is a suite of more than 100 automated security tests for your website. In total, it checks for over 700 distinct vulnerabilities. The team of ethical hackers behind the platform continually update the scans to detect the latest threats as they emerge, keeping your website secure in real time.
Siteguarding
Siteguarding is a free online tool for detecting viruses, malware, phishing, injected spam, defacement and more. It can also help you clean and remove these threats from your website to ensure your security. The company also provides web hosting services, for a complete web security management package.
These are just a few of the many website security options you have available to you, so there is no excuse for not having your website provide the latest security protections for your customers. Try out a few scans today to identify areas where your company website might be vulnerable so that you can regain control.
Ken Lynch is an enterprise software startup veteran, who has always been fascinated by what drives workers to work and how to make work more engaging. Ken founded Reciprocity to pursue just that. He has propelled Reciprocity’s success with this mission-based goal of engaging employees with the governance, risk, and compliance goals of their company in order to create more socially minded corporate citizens. Ken earned his BS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT.