Web Vulnerability Scanners and Ajax

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One of the requirements for a website that will be enjoyed all the time is security. However, reports said that more than half of the websites around the world are susceptible to malicious attacks no matter what they are. While developing the program, it’s important that security should be considered all the time.

It’s a temptation for most since security is something that we cannot see and appreciate yet it’s going to dictate if the website will survive or not. A company who is using a website that was attacked are only showing great weakness. Websites’ Security is the key for a company’s survival especially if they are online. That’s why Web Vulnerability Scanners were created. These scanners were specifically created to sweep the codes in a website and see how they fare on popular attacks. It’s an important enterprise tool that’s a necessity to all web developers. Testers will appreciate this product as this will aid them in their search for the flaw on a website. Online games will be able to see how it could be attacked and used as a hacking tool at the same time. What the sweeper does is it automatically looks at all the codes of the computer. Some programs could be customized to their specifications however, since ease of work and reduction of man hours is sought for the product, it’s just natural to have something automatic. Web Vulnerability Scanners (WVS) will be able to test the request/response, XSS and feeds that might be used to crawl into the system and change the code to attack anyone that visits the website. However, there’s a concern for most developers who are using WVS when it comes to Ajax. As Ajax combines XML, HTTP and JavaScript at the same time, WVS might not be able to gauge who these things work. The reason for this is that it doesn’t have anything in to identify in the first place. We are used to consider codes that used to work independently. There may be combination of codes that were used in the past but WVS has already been in the market for sometime that it’s already familiar with these popular codes. But for Ajax, it’s something new that they should be updated to accommodate these techniques. You can still use the product to scan Ajax based websites however; you have to do it one by one, page by page. Instead of an automatic sweep, you should take time in manually using the program to sweep the codes. That defeats the purpose of using the product which is to save time and speed up the development. That’s why Ajax until now, it is conceived to be a dangerous program to launch especially for large scale businesses. It’s a challenge for Web Vulnerability Server developers to update their program. Since they cost a lot (more than a thousand per user); they should be able to work on these or else the industry of WVS will be single-handedly destroyed by Ajax.