Industry:
Company
Layers-7
Location:
Ratingen, Germany
Company Size:
1-10 Employees
Product:
Netsparker used by Security Consultants to Identify Vulnerabilities in Thousands of Web Applications
Layers-7 specializes in IT security and provides businesses from all industries with security consultation, services, and solutions, with the aim of helping them find the right balance between security and their primary business mission.
As part of their Security Services, a team of professionals from Layers-7 ensure the security of thousands of websites and web applications that are run by their own customers and accessed by millions of visitors every month. With clients operating from a wide range of different industries, such as manufacturing, aviation, retail and government, Layers-7 encounters a variety of custom-built web applications, most of which are tightly integrated with other custom-made software.
Automating Web Application Security Services
To meet the ever growing needs of its customers, keep on identifying web vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, and be more efficient while still providing an excellent service to its customers, the team of experts at Layers-7 had to automate web application security.
They required an automated web application security scanner that:
- Is fast and reliable;
- Can scan websites running on Apache web server;
- Identifies web application vulnerabilities in web applications built in PHP, .NET and Java;
- Generate industry standard reports, such as developer and executive reports;
- Reports no false positives, ensuring that their team can spend their time securing web applications and not verifying false positives.
Netsparker Delivers the Best Automated Web Application Security Solution
After evaluating several automated web vulnerability scanners such as AppScan and Acunetix WVS, Layers-7 chose Netsparker web application security scanner, a solution already in use by renowned companies such as Samsung and Skype, because, according to Sujit Christy, Director at Layers-7:
The Importance of Quality Support
Layers-7 is not only satisfied with Netsparker as a product; their consultants are also delighted to be receiving the level of support that they expect from a global company that is aligned with their needs.
About Layers-7
Layers-7 was founded with the vision of providing enterprise level security consulting and services to private and public sector organizations.
“Netsparker are not just another vendor from where we purchase any other software, they are like business partners. We have to trust their products do a good job to ensure the security of our cloud-based platforms, else our business’ reputation could on the line. And Netsparker have earned such trust.”
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"As opposed to other web application scanners we used, Netsparker is very easy to use and does not require a lot of configuring. An out of the box installation of Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner can detect more vulnerabilities than any other web application..."
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“We like Netsparker not only because it is able to be configured quickly, but also the scans themselves are completed quickly, reliably and without false positives (a large timesaver in and of itself).”
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