Best Penetration Testing Tools
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What are Penetration Testing Tools?
Penetration testing software tools enable security professionals to test applications and IT systems to identify vulnerabilities. Penetration testing tools, sometimes known as "pen testing" tools, can simulate a hack or attack in order to test the security of a given application or system. Compare and read user reviews of the best Penetration Testing tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Astra Pentest
Astra Security
Astra’s Pentest is a comprehensive penetration testing solution with an intelligent automated vulnerability scanner coupled with in-depth manual pentesting. On top of 10000+ tests including security checks for all CVEs mentioned in the OWASP top 10, and SANS 25, the automated scanner also conducts all tests required to comply with ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC2, and GDPR. Astra offers an interactive pentest dashboard that the user can use to visualize vulnerability analyses, assign vulnerabilities to team members, and collaborate with security experts. And if the users don’t want to get back to the dashboard every time they want to use the scanner or assign a vulnerability to a team member, they can simply use the integrations with CI/CD platforms, Slack, and Jira.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Carbide
Carbide
Carbide complements your testing efforts by helping document findings, track remediation, and prove control effectiveness. Post-engagement, Carbide enables teams to link vulnerabilities to audit controls, assign remediation owners, and maintain evidence of resolution. Through integrations and dashboards, you can monitor your cloud environment for ongoing security gaps while using Carbide workflows to ensure that testing outcomes drive long-term security improvements.Starting Price: $7,500 annually -
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Invicti
Invicti Security
Application security is noisy and overly complicated. The good news: you can relieve that unnecessary noise and dramatically reduce your risk of attacks with Invicti. Keeping up with security is more manageable with accurate, automated testing that scales as your needs shift and grow. That's where Invicti shines. With a leading dynamic application security testing solution (DAST), Invicti helps teams automate security tasks and save hundreds of hours each month by identifying the vulnerabilities that really matter. Combining dynamic with interactive testing (DAST + IAST) and software composition analysis (SCA), Invicti scans every corner of an app to find what other tools miss. With asset discovery, it's easier to discover all web assets — even ones that are lost, forgotten, or created by rogue departments. Through tried-and-true methods, Invicti helps DevSecOps teams get ahead of their workloads to hit critical deadlines, improve processes, and communicate more effectively. -
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Nessus
Tenable
Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment. From the beginning, we've worked hand-in-hand with the security community. We continuously optimize Nessus based on community feedback to make it the most accurate and comprehensive vulnerability assessment solution in the market. 20 years later and we're still laser focused on community collaboration and product innovation to provide the most accurate and complete vulnerability data - so you don't miss critical issues which could put your organization at risk. Today, Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment. -
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Acunetix
Invicti Security
As the market leader in automated web application security testing, Acunetix by Invicti is the go-to security tool for Fortune 500 companies. DevSecOps teams can cut through the noise to uncover unseen risks and mitigate dangerous exploits, detecting and reporting on a wide array of vulnerabilities. With an industry-leading crawler that fully supports HTML5, JavaScript, and Single-page applications, Acunetix enables the auditing of complex, authenticated applications for deeper insight into an organization's risk posture. It's a leader for a reason: the technology behind Acunetix delivers the only product on the market that can automatically detect out-of-band vulnerabilities to enable comprehensive management, prioritization, and control for vulnerability threats by criticality. Plus, it's available both online and as an on-prem solution, integrating with popular issue trackers and WAFs so that DevSecOps teams don't have to slow down when building innovative apps. -
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Digital Defense
Fortra
Providing best-in-class cyber security doesn’t mean blindly chasing the latest trends. It does mean a commitment to core technology and meaningful innovation. See how our vulnerability and threat management solutions provide organizations like yours with the security foundation needed to protect vital assets. Eliminating network vulnerabilities doesn’t have to be complicated, even though that’s what some companies would have you believe. You can build a powerful, effective cybersecurity program that is affordable and easy to use. All you need is a strong security foundation. At Digital Defense, we know that effectively dealing with cyber threats is a fact of life for every business. After more than 20 years of developing patented technologies, we’ve built a reputation for pioneering threat and vulnerability management software that’s accessible, manageable, and solid at its core. -
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ImmuniWeb
ImmuniWeb
ImmuniWeb SA is a global application security company operating in over 50 countries, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Most of ImmuniWeb customers come from regulated industries, such as banking, healthcare, and e-commerce. ImmuniWeb® AI Platform leverages award-winning AI and Machine Learning technology for acceleration and intelligent automation of Attack Surface Management and Dark Web Monitoring. The data is later leveraged for a threat-aware and risk-based Application Penetration Testing for web, mobile, and API security testing. ImmuniWeb is the only company that offers a contractual zero false-positives SLA with a money-back guarantee. ImmuniWeb’s AI technology is a recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including Gartner Cool Vendor, IDC Innovator, and the winner of “SC Award Europe” in the “Best Usage of Machine Learning and AI” category. ImmuniWeb® Community Edition runs over 100,000 daily tests, being one of the largest application security communitiesStarting Price: $499/month -
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Saint Security Suite
Carson & SAINT
This single, fully integrated solution conducts active, passive and agent-based assessments while its extensive flexibility evaluates risk according to each business. SAINT’s impressive, flexible and scalable scanning capabilities set it apart from many others in this space. SAINT has partnered with AWS, allowing its customers to take advantage of AWS’s efficient scanning. Should subscribers prefer, SAINT also offers a Windows scanning agent. Security teams can schedule scans easily, configure them with considerable occurrence flexibility and fine-tune them with advanced options. As a vulnerability management solution, SAINT Security Suite’s security research and development efforts focus on investigation, triage, prioritization, and coverage of vulnerabilities of the highest levels of severity and importance. Not willing to settle for just blanket coverage and raw data, our analysts focus on developing tools for what matters to our customers.Starting Price: $1500.00/year/user -
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CyCognito
CyCognito
Expose all the hidden security gaps in your organization using nation-state grade technology. CyCognito’s Global Bot Network uses attacker-like reconnaissance techniques to scan, discover and fingerprint billions of digital assets all over the world. No input or configuration needed. Uncover the unknown. The Discovery Engine uses graph data modeling to map your organization’s full attack surface. You get a clear view of every single asset an attacker could reach — what they are and how they relate to your business. Using CyCognito’s proprietary risk-detection methods, the attack simulator identifies risks per asset and discovers potential attack vectors. It doesn’t affect business operations and works without deployment, configuration or whitelisting. CyCognito scores each risk based its attractiveness to attackers and impact on the business, dramatically reducing the thousands of attack vectors organizations may have to those critical few dozen that need your focusStarting Price: $11/asset/month -
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Informer
Informer
Find your true attack surface with Informer's automated digital footprint detection and 24/7 monitoring. Access granular vulnerability data for your web applications and infrastructure, including expert remediation advice. Dashboards allow you to visualize and understand your evolving attack surface while tracking your progress, enabling you to accurately assess your overall security posture. Results of discovered assets and vulnerabilities are displayed and managed in one central area, with multiple ways to make it easy for you to quickly deal with your risks. The custom reporting suite provides access to detailed management information, specifically created to record important asset and vulnerability data. Be instantly alerted to any changes in your attack surface that could affect the overall security posture of your environment, 24/7.Starting Price: $500 Per Month -
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Faraday
Faraday
In today’s dynamic world, security is no longer about fortifying rigid structures. It’s about keeping watch and securing change. Carry out a continuous evaluation of your attack surface with techniques and methodologies used by real attackers. Always keep track of your dynamic attack surface to guarantee constant coverage. Full coverage requires using several scanners. Let us pinpoint crucial data from an overwhelming amount of results. Our Technology allows you to define and execute your own actions from different sources with your own schedule and automatically import outputs into your repository. With +85 plugins, an easy-to-use Faraday-Cli, a RESTful API, and a flexible scheme to develop your own agents, our platform brings a unique alternative to creating your own automated and collaborative ecosystem.Starting Price: $640 per month -
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Outpost24
Outpost24
Understand your attack surface with a unified view and reduce cyber exposure from an attacker’s view with continuous security testing across networks, devices, applications, clouds and containers. Having more information alone won’t help you. Even the most experienced security team can be blindsided by the sheer amount of alerts and vulnerabilities they have to deal with. Powered by threat intelligence and machine learning our tools provide risk-based insights to help prioritize remediation and reduce time to patch. Our predictive risk based vulnerability management tools ensure your network security is proactive – helping you reduce time to remediation and patch more effectively. The industry’s most complete process to continuously identify application flaws and secure your SDLC for safer and faster software releases. Secure your cloud migration with cloud workload analytics ,CIS configuration assessment and contain inspection for multi and hybrid clouds. -
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Finite State
Finite State
Finite State manages risk across the software supply chain with comprehensive SCA and SBOMs for the connected world. By providing end-to-end SBOM solutions, Finite State enables Product Security teams to meet regulatory, customer, and security demands. Finite State's best-in-class binary SCA creates visibility into any-party software that enables Product Security teams to understand their risk in context and shift right on vulnerability detection. With visibility, scalability, and speed, Finite State correlates data from all of your security tools into a single pane of glass for maximum visibility. -
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SecurityHQ
SecurityHQ
SecurityHQ is a world leading independent Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), that detects, and responds to threats, instantly. As your security partner, we alert and act on threats for you. Gain access to an army of analysts that work with you, as an extension of your team, 24/7, 365 days a year. Receive tailored advice and full visibility to ensure peace of mind, with our Global Security Operation Centres. Utilize our award-winning security solutions, knowledge, people, and process capabilities, to accelerate business and reduce risk and overall security costs. Most Popular Services: Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Vulnerability Management Services Managed Firewall Digital Forensics & Incident Response Managed Network Detection and Response (NDR) Penetration Testing CISO as a Service -
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Strike
Strike
Strike is a cybersecurity platform offering premium penetration testing and compliance solutions to help businesses identify and address critical vulnerabilities. By connecting organizations with top ethical hackers, Strike provides tailored assessments based on specific technologies and requirements. It offers real-time reporting, allowing clients to receive immediate notifications upon discovering vulnerabilities, and supports scope adjustments during ongoing tests to align with evolving priorities. Additionally, Strike's services assist in obtaining international certification badges, aiding in compliance with industry standards. With a strategic support team offering continuous assistance and weekly recommendations, Strike ensures organizations receive tailored guidance throughout the testing process. The platform also delivers downloadable, ready-for-compliance reports, facilitating adherence to standards such as SOC2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001. -
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Ivanti Neurons for RBVM
Ivanti
Ivanti Neurons for RBVM is a risk-based vulnerability management platform designed to help organizations prioritize and remediate cybersecurity risks efficiently. It continuously correlates vulnerability data, threat intelligence, and business asset criticality to provide a contextualized view of risk. The platform automates remediation workflows, including SLA management and real-time alerts, to accelerate vulnerability closure. Role-based access controls and customizable dashboards foster collaboration across security teams from SOC to C-suite. Ivanti’s proprietary Vulnerability Risk Rating (VRR) prioritizes vulnerabilities based on real-world threat context rather than severity alone. This enables security teams to focus on the most critical risks and reduce exposure to ransomware and other cyber threats. -
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BreachLock
BreachLock
Security Testing for Cloud, DevOps and SaaS. Most security testing for cloud-based companies is slow, complicated, and costly. BreachLock™ isn’t. Whether you need to demonstrate compliance for an enterprise client, battle-test your application before launch, or safeguard your entire DevOps environment, we’ve got you covered with our cloud-based on-demand security testing platform. BreachLock™ offers a SaaS platform that enables our clients to request and receive a comprehensive penetration test with a few clicks. Our unique approach makes use of manual as well as automated vulnerability discovery methods aligned with industry best practices. We execute in-depth manual penetration testing and provide you with both offline and online reports. We retest your fixes and certify you for executing a Penetration Test. This is followed up with monthly automated scanning delivered via the BreachLock platform. -
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PlexTrac
PlexTrac
PlexTrac is the #1 AI-powered platform for pentest reporting and threat exposure management, helping cybersecurity teams efficiently address the most critical threats and vulnerabilities. By consolidating data, automating reporting, prioritizing risks, and streamlining remediation workflows, PlexTrac reduces organization’s overall threat exposure. We designed the PlexTrac platform to address the workflow pain points security practitioners face. PlexTrac helps them track signal through the noise and break down communication silos. Combining “plexus” and “track,” our name really says it all. PlexTrac exists to network and coordinate all people and parts of a security program and to better track progress toward maturity. -
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MaxPatrol
Positive Technologies
MaxPatrol is made for managing vulnerabilities and compliance on corporate information systems. Penetration testing, system checks, and compliance monitoring are at the core of MaxPatrol. Together, these mechanisms give an objective picture of the security stance across IT infrastructure as well as granular insight at the department, host, and application level, precisely the information needed to quickly detect vulnerabilities and prevent attacks. MaxPatrol makes it a cinch to keep an up-to-date inventory of IT assets. View information about network resources (network addresses, OS, available network applications and services), identify hardware and software in use, and monitor the state of updates. Best of all, it sees changes to your IT infrastructure. MaxPatrol doesn't blink as new accounts and hosts appear, or as hardware and software are updated. Information about the state of infrastructure security is quietly collected and processed. -
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CyBot
Cronus Cyber Technologies
Perform continuous scans all year round, valid for both vulnerability management and penetration testing to stay on top of your network’s security 24/7. See live map and get real-time alerts on current threats to your business processes. Cybot can be deployed globally and showcase global Attack Path Scenarios so you can see how a hacker can hop from a workstation in the UK to a router in Germany to a database in the US. This capability is unique both for penetration testing as well as for vulnerability management. The various CyBot Pros will be managed by a single enterprise dashboard. CyBot brings context to each asset it scans, checking how it could affect a business process. In this way, you can funnel all your vulnerabilities and first focus on those that are exploitable and that are a part of an attack path to a critical asset or business process. This greatly reduces the resources needed for patching and ensures business continuity. -
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Intigriti
Intigriti
Intigriti is the trusted leader in crowdsourced security, empowering the world’s largest organizations to find and fix vulnerabilities before cybercriminals can exploit them. Since 2016, the company has helped its customers reduce risk with the expertise of 125,000+ global security researchers, enabling real-time vulnerability detection and preventing costly breaches. Intigriti's flexible platform offers a full suite of solutions, including Bug Bounty, Managed VDP, PTaaS, Focused Sprints, and Live Hacking Events, tailored to your evolving digital needs and delivered through a pay-for-impact model, meaning you only pay for valid vulnerabilities submitted. With industry-leading triage, commitment to legal compliance, and exceptional customer service, Intigriti is the go-to choice for organizations like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Intel to secure their digital assets and stay ahead in a changing world. -
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GlitchSecure
GlitchSecure
Continuous Security Testing for SaaS Companies - Built by Hackers Automatically assess your security posture with continuous vulnerability assessments and on-demand pentests. Hackers don't stop testing, and neither should you. We use a hybrid approach that combines testing methodologies built by expert hackers, a real-time reporting dashboard, and continuous delivery of high-quality results. We improve the traditional pentesting lifecycle by continually providing expert advice, remediation verification, and automated security testing throughout the entire year. Our dedicated team of experts works with you to properly scope and review your applications, APIs, and networks to ensure in-depth testing coverage all year. Let us help you sleep better at night.Starting Price: $6,600 per year -
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Bizzy
Cyberwise
Detecting potential vulnerabilities, aggregating, enriching, and prioritizing them, and taking rapid action is critical in today's world to enhance our resilience against cyber threats. This capability should also be continuous. Bizzy platform reinforces cyber security resilience through prioritization, automation, Big Data analytics, machine learning, and vulnerability management capabilities, enabling continuous, rapid, and precise actions. Today, in order to increase our resilience against cyber attacks, we are able to be informed quickly about the vulnerabilities, bringing them together, It is important that we have the ability to relate and take quick action. carries. This ability should also carry continuity. Bizzy platform with prioritization, automation, and Big Data analysis is continuous, fast, and accurate actionable vulnerability management features It contributes to increasing the security resilience. -
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HackerOne
HackerOne
HackerOne empowers the world to build a safer internet. As the world’s most trusted hacker-powered security platform, HackerOne gives organizations access to the largest community of hackers on the planet. Armed with the most robust database of vulnerability trends and industry benchmarks, the hacker community mitigates cyber risk by searching, finding, and safely reporting real-world security weaknesses for organizations across all industries and attack surfaces. Customers include The U.S. Department of Defense, Dropbox, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hyatt, Intel, Lufthansa, Microsoft, MINDEF Singapore, Nintendo, PayPal, Qualcomm, Slack, Starbucks, Twitter, and Verizon Media. HackerOne was ranked fifth on the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2020. Headquartered in San Francisco, HackerOne has a presence in London, New York, the Netherlands, France, Singapore, and over 70 other locations across the globe. -
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Intruder
Intruder
Intruder is an international cyber security company that helps organisations reduce their cyber exposure by providing an effortless vulnerability scanning solution. Intruder’s cloud-based vulnerability scanner discovers security weaknesses across your digital estate. Offering industry-leading security checks, continuous monitoring and an easy-to-use platform, Intruder keeps businesses of all sizes safe from hackers. Receive actionable results prioritised by context. Intruder interprets raw data received from leading scanning engines, so you can focus on the issues which truly matter, such as exposed databases. Intruder's high-quality reports help you sail through customer security questionnaires, and make compliance audits like SOC2, ISO27001, and Cyber Essentials a breeze. -
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NetSPI Resolve
NetSPI
World-class penetration testing execution and delivery. Resolve correlates all vulnerability data across your organization into a single view, so you can find, prioritize and fix vulnerabilities faster. Receive on-demand access to all of your testing data in Resolve. Request additional assessments at the click of a button. Track the statuses and results of all active pen testing engagements. Analyze the benefits of both automated and manual penetration testing in your vulnerability data. Most vulnerability management programs are being stretched beyond their safe limit. Remediation times are measured in months – not days or weeks. Chances are, you don’t know where you might be exposed. Resolve correlates all your vulnerability data from across your organization into a single view. Resolve single view is combined with remediation workflows that let you fix vulnerabilities faster, and reduce your risk exposure. -
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ESOF
TAC Security
Security teams are overwhelmed with tools and data that show vulnerabilities across their organizations, but don’t provide a clear roadmap of how to allocate scarce resources to reduce risk most efficiently. TAC Security combines the widest view of vulnerability and risk data across the enterprise to create insightful cyber risk scores. The power of artificial intelligence and user-friendly analytics helps you measure, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities across the entire IT stack. Our Enterprise Security in One Framework is the next generation, risk-based vulnerability management platform for forward-looking security organizations. TAC Security is a global pioneer in risk and vulnerability management. TAC Security protects Fortune 500 companies, leading enterprises and government across the globe through its AI based vulnerability management platform – ESOF (Enterprise Security on One Framework). -
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Compass IT GRC
Compass IT Compliance
Like a compass guiding explorers, Compass IT Compliance navigates your business through the complex terrain of cybersecurity and compliance. Our expertise ensures you stay on course, protecting your innovations and accelerating your journey towards success. Cybercriminals are growing smarter and utilizing more diverse tactics, so business managers can no longer simply rely on off-the-shelf solutions like firewalls and antivirus software for adequate protection. When you partner with us, our team can help you identify the necessary solutions that will mitigate your risks while complying with regulations specific to your industry.
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