Author Archives Ferruh Mavituna

The coronavirus pandemic is set to become the biggest global crisis in decades, and ensuring cybersecurity is now more important than ever. To help organizations keep their websites and web applications secure during this unprecedented global emergency, Netsparker is offering complimentary licenses to organizations involved in fighting COVID-19. Read More

Our CEO, Ferruh Mavituna, explains why the framework you choose for your web applications matters. Even if you build the most secure application, when your framework is vulnerable, your application is too. He debunks some myths regarding the similarity of popular frameworks, and provides good reasons to check whether yours is secure by default. Read More

This blog post examines why open source software has proved so popular, examples of how it can go wrong and why Netsparker tests open source software. It also contains statistical findings on the Netsparker yearly scan of open source web applications for 2017, and an infographic. Read More

Sumeru Solutions is an software development company that makes banking and information security solutions, and mobile apps. They selected Netsparker to automate and speed up their web scanning processes because of its rapid configurability, ease of use, reliability, lack of false positives, and ability to handle a larger range and scale of products. Read More

In this interview, Klemen Stirn, the project-lead, developer and support team for Hesk explains why he found Netsparker to be a great tool for automating and scaling-up web application security, due to its ease of use and ample support. Read More

In this interview, Mr Mallory, an IT Ninja for ProfitKeeper explains how they started using Netsparker to automate the process of finding vulnerabilities in web applications, thus ensuring they fix them before malicious attackers exploit them. Read More

The main feature in the August 2017 update of Netsparker Desktop is the support of multiple sets of credentials for different URLs. Read More

In this infographic, we highlight the most common vulnerabilities that are found in open source web applications. Even though this is just a small sample of the web applications that are used on the live website on the internet, these statistics give us a good overview of the real life situation, and how many websites are vulnerable to malicious hacker attacks. Read More

This article uses examples to explain how to develop secure web applications in Ruby on Rails that are not vulnerable to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Read More

A highlight of what we have done in 2016 and what features and scanning capabilities we introduced in our web application security scanners. Read More

This article looks into several techniques which Ruby on Rails developers can use to develop web applications that are not vulnerable to the notorious SQL Injection vulnerability. Read More

This case study is about how RPM software, a Canadian software company use Netsparker Cloud web application security scanner to scan their cloud based service offerings to ensure they do not have any vulnerabilities that attackers could possible exploit. Read More

A Netsparker Cloud case study in which the OpenCart's developers explain how the cloud-based web vulnerability scanner was integrated in their SDLC to help them develop more secure code. Read More

This case study highlights how MME BVBA, a Belgian information security company uses Netsparker to provide security services to its customers and to also teach and train the upcoming generation of web security professionals. Read More

Use our SQL Injection Cheat Sheet to learn about the different variants of the SQL Injection vulnerability. In this cheat sheet you can find detailed technical information about SQL Injection vulnerabilities against MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL SQL servers. Read More

In this case study, CryptoNet Italia explains how by using the Netsparker web application security scanner it was able to provide more man-hours and advanced penetration testing services to its customers. CryptoNet also explain why after 14 years in this business, and using all types of scanners they chose Netsparker's unique vulnerability scanning technology. Read More

T4G, an international consulting company that helps organizations from different verticals run their business better uses Netsparker web application security scanners to ensure that both their own websites and web applications, and those of their clients do not have any vulnerabilities that malicious attackers could exploit. Read More

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a leader in the Humane Genome Project have been using Netsparker web application security scanner for years to ensure the security of their websites and web applications which are used to deliver the results of their research to other researchers and pharmaceutical companies from allover the world. Read More

Read how Netsparker Desktop, the only false positive free web application security scanner helps global organization ISACA ensure the long term security of all their websites and web applications. ISACA easily integrated Netsparker in their SDLC to scan all code changes before they are put on live servers thus ensuring all their live websites and web applications, which are visited by millions every year are secure. Read More

Read this blog post for more information on why we are stopping the development of Netsparker Community Edition, the free SQL Injection scanner. Read More