Meeting PCI DSS requirements with Acunetix

Unlike a web application firewall, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner focuses on fixing web security problems, whether than trying to prevent them from happening. Acunetix WVS helps in detecting web vulnerabilities before the web application is exposed on the internet during its development cycle. Also, with a web application firewall, only PCI DSS 6.6 requirement is met, while with Acunetix WVS the following PCI DSS requirements are easily met:

2.2.2: Disabled all unnecessary and insecure services and protocols
2.2.3: Configure system security parameters
2.2.4: Remove all unnecessary functionality
2.3: Encrypt all non-console administrative access
4.1.a: Use strong Cryptography and security protocols
6.1: Ensure that all system components and software have the latest vendor-supplied security patches
6.3.1.1: Validation of all input
6.3.1.2: Validation of proper error handling
6.3.1.4: Validation of secure communications
6.5: Develop all web applications based on secure coding guidelines
6.6: Ensure that all web-facing applications are protected against known attacks

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is a cost effective solution that helps you build PCI DSS compliant web applications. Download a trial version from http://www.acunetix.com

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