Advent of ajax applications
The advent of AJAX applications has raised considerable security issues due to a broadened
threat window brought about by the very same technologies and complexities developed. With an
increase in script execution and information exchanged in server/client requests and responses,
hackers have greater opportunity to steal data thereby costing organizations thousands of dollars
in lost revenue, severe fines, diminished customer trust and substantial damage to your
organization’s reputation and credibility.
The only solution for effective and efficient security auditing is a vulnerability scanner which
automates the crawling of websites to identify weaknesses. However, without an engine that
parses and executes JavaScript, such crawling is inaccurate and gives website owners a false
sense of security.
The Acunetix Client Script Analyzer included in Acunetix WVS, identifies the document object
model, events and behaviours of a website and executes all the embedded scripts. This unique
web auditing methodology significantly enhances the quality of the vulnerability scan.