Acunetix by Invicti vs Tripwire Enterprise

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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Tripwire Enterprise is great for hosting/data center environments and it greatly helps where console screenshots and reporting fill a lot of our client internal audit needs for security and change control.

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Joseph Smith

Senior Systems Engineer

Zwicker & Associates, P.C.Computer Software, 201-500 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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It allows us to track development changes for engineer accountability.
Tripwire Enterprise also allows us to monitor changes/updates being done to our systems in our hosting centers.
We use the software to track user access and critical system changes.

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Joseph Smith

Senior Systems Engineer

Zwicker & Associates, P.C.Computer Software, 201-500 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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In previous versions the management console was a little hard to navigate in some respects.
I'm sure this has changed over time but we hope the reporting system has gotten more granular.
I really don't have to many cons for this product, I recommend it for every company I work for!

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Joseph Smith

Senior Systems Engineer

Zwicker & Associates, P.C.Computer Software, 201-500 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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Additional Pricing Details

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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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Tripwire Enterprise Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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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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Honestly, I haven't used other products to do what Tripwire does, it's always my first recommendation.

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Joseph Smith

Senior Systems Engineer

Zwicker & Associates, P.C.Computer Software, 201-500 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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Tripwire has been a positive business impact for us because of its trusted name. Our customers require software like Tripwire because they know their data and security concerns are in good hands when it's deployed.
The ROI for Tripwire is also a positive for our business because of the time and man power saved in due diligence and reporting for our clients' internal auditing.

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Joseph Smith

Senior Systems Engineer

Zwicker & Associates, P.C.Computer Software, 201-500 employees

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Acunetix by Invicti vs Tripwire Enterprise