Acunetix by Invicti vs Armor

Likelihood to Recommend

It is suited well for ad-hoc and scheduled application vulnerability scans. You must review the results to manually filter out false-positives. You must always keep in mind that this is only a vulnerability scan. It can only find a certain class of vulnerabilities, and it can only do that so well. You should definitely not rely on this tool alone for identifying problems. That being said, I have used it along with every other major commercial vulnerability scanner and find it to the best overall ROI compared to more expensive commercial scanners that don't necessarily give you a better user experience or better vulnerability results. I rarely need support from the vendor, but when I do, they have been responsive and able to solve the issue quickly.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Armor gives you what you need to be successful regardless of technical ability. If you can maintain the systems yourself, you are definitely ahead of the game with their service. If you're not prepared to configure and maintain the systems, they do a pretty good job of getting it set up during the onboarding process so that you don't need to dig into the technical guts too much. If you find yourself in over your head, their support staff can handle it for you in most cases.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Pros

Fast.
Easy-to-use.
Great customer support.
Reporting features.
Supports importing state files from other popular application testing tools.
Has other features built-in beyond just scanning for vulnerabilities.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Security - we have requirements met right out of the box and the implementation of new resources is done with security in mind.
Speed - We can scale resources easy and the infrastructure is fast and efficient.
Responsiveness - Support tickets are handled very fast with almost immediate solutions.

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LJ Wilson

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

Lindsey SoftwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Does not support multiple endpoints well (e.g. apps and services that do not reside at the same URL).
Has authentication problems with modern enterprise apps which involve a lot of redirects to unrelated endpoints, federated IDs, SSO, etc. This is related to the first point.
The vulnerability detection capability is not as robust as Burp Suite Pro + extensions, Metasploit + auxiliary modules, Nmap + scripts, etc.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Authentication and access against the secure messaging portal is overkill when the response I'm logging in to see merely says, "yes, we have your message. An agent will respond shortly". There should be an option to receive updates like this through email.
The online portal that allows us to clone servers is very slow to respond. More than once I've spun up an additional server due to the lack of visual feedback on the initial request.
The web application firewall does not seem to be sophisticated enough to differentiate between logged in administrators and end users. We use a CMS system which allows admins to create scripts. These often get barred by the WAF even though they are not malicious.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

Acunetix by Invicti Editions & Modules

Edition

Websites Scanned: 5	$4,500
Websites Scanned: 6-10	$7,200
Websites Scanned: 11-20	$10,800
Websites Scanned: 21-35	$22,540
Websites Scanned: 36-50	$26,600
Websites Scanned: Over 50	Contact for quote

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Armor Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Support Rating

No score

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Armor 7.8

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Approximately 50% of all messages we receive are automated. Either that an agent will be assigned, has been assigned, or a ticket is closed. I'd like to see more 'real' interaction, and less box ticking, though I appreciate process has to be followed. That's the one point off. Everything else is very good.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Every year, we re-evaluate the tools we are using and licensing. We balance the ever-changing vendor licensing-models, costs, tool features/usability, etc. For the last few years, this has been the best overall commercial tool for our specific use case. However, this is only one of many tools that we use and need.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Saved money compared to other commercial scanners, especially over the long run.
Scan speed seems to be pretty good compared to some of the bulkier commercial products out there. However, that largely has to do with proper configuration.
A downside is that is requires a bit of extra work just to get it set up to scan APIs, web services, etc.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Acunetix by Invicti vs Armor