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Title: Watchfire Blazes Past Rivals

Author: Wiens, Jordan Article Type: Review
Source: Information Week, n1157 p59(2) Publication Date: Oct 8, 2007
  ISSN: 8750-6874
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.informationweek.com

In ongoing testing of Ajax-capable application scanners, the product to beat so far is IBMs Watchfire AppScan. Although AppScan isnt perfect, the testers found it to be the most mature web application vulnerability scanner on the market in terms of reliability, functionality and ease of use. In addition, they liked its clean design and the easy-to-use interface. While other scanners have had difficulty with complex Ajax applications, in which part of the application is running locally in the browser, AppScan was the first product to properly identify Ajax functionality and navigate sections of the application that other scanners failed to automatically crawl. They found AppScans built-in utilities similar to the tools integrated into WebInspect and felt that the decision to let users develop their own extensions is a great way to let customers use AppScan in a way that best fits their needs or particular environment. Of course, AppScan is not perfect and the testers came across minor problems, but they found Watchfires responsiveness to be very good and the problems, once identified, easily solved.

Special Features: Charts

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Watchfire Corp

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AppScan

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