About the Author

Ferruh Mavituna - Founder, Strategic Advisor

Ferruh Mavituna is the founder and CEO of Invicti Security, a world leader in web application vulnerability scanning. His professional obsessions lie in web application security research, automated vulnerability detection, and exploitation features. He has authored several web security research papers and tools and delivers animated appearances at cybersecurity conferences and on podcasts. Exuberant at the possibilities open to organizations by the deployment of automation, Ferruh is keen to demonstrate what can be achieved in combination with Invicti’s award-winning products, Netsparker and Acunetix.

Netsparker and Lunarline Partner to Strengthen Web Vulnerability Scanning Management

Wed, 22 Oct 2014

Press Release | Netsparker and Lunarline has partnered together to allow collaboration between their own products. Lunarline Vulnerability Scan Converter, a vulnerability management software can now import web application security scan results generated with Netsparker’s own web security scanner.

More Efficient and Precise Web Security Scans with New Netsparker 3.5.5

Wed, 13 Aug 2014

The new Netsparker version 3.5.5 has an improved URL rewrite rules wizards which allow users to fine tune the scanning of websites using URL rewrite rules for more efficient and precise web security scans.

Detect DOM Based Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities with Netsparker

Tue, 15 Jul 2014

Press Release covering the release of Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner version 3.5. With the new Netsparker you can automatically detect DOM based cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in web applications, easily configure URL rewrite rules to scan parameters in URLs and much more.

How to Configure URL Rewrite Rules in Netsparker

Tue, 23 May 2017

This article explains how to easily configure URL Rewrite Rules in Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner to scan websites and web applications which have URL Rewrite Technology enabled. By specifying URL Rewrite Rules you can scan the parameters in the URL.

Working in QA? Take your Web Application Security Testing to the Next Level

Mon, 22 May 2017

As a QA professional, you are in a perfect position to add much more value to the web application security testing and vulnerabilities detection processes. Read more and learn what you can do to improve your testing skills and start incorporating more complete web application security tests in your normal QA tests.

Identify Vulnerabilities in Web Services with Netsparker

Wed, 22 Jan 2014

Press Release | Netsparker Ltd. announces the new version of Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner version 3.2. The latest version of Netsparker allows businesses and organizations to automatically scan web services and identify security issues in them. The new version of the only false positive free web vulnerability scanner is also shipped with new request and response viewers which give the user a better insight of each request used in the testing and contains several new web application vulnerability security checks.

Netsparker 3.2 Released – New Features Overview

Wed, 22 Jan 2014

Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner Version 3.2 allows Netsparker users to scan and identify vulnerabilities and security issues automatically in SOAP web services. This version of the false positive free web vulnerability scanner also includes new request and response viewers, a number of improvements that make web vulnerability scans more efficient and a number of bug fixes.

Generate PCI DSS 3 Compliance Reports with the Latest Netsparker Update

Tue, 10 Dec 2013

This update of Netsparker includes an updated PCI DSS compliance report template that enables users to generate reports for PCI DSS version 3.0. The vulnerability classifications have also been updated to reflect the changes introduced in the new version of PCI DSS requirements. Read this post for more information about Netsparker 3.1.7.0

Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner Fully Supports HTML5

Wed, 20 Nov 2013

Press Release | Netsparker Ltd announces the latest version of their web vulnerability scanner that allows organizations to automatically scan HTML5 web applications and launch more advanced attacks against modern dynamic web 2.0 applications. For more details about all of the new features in Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner version 3.1 read this press release

The Wait is Over, Netsparker 3.1 is Here with Full HTML5 Support

Thu, 26 Oct 2017

Netsparker Version 3.1 is a major version update. With this version of the false positive free web application security scanner Netsparker, users can scan and identify security issues in HTML5 web applications. This new version of Netsparker also includes a number of new security checks for Web 2.0 web applications, can inject JSON and XML HTTP requests, reports much more information about the target web application and much more. Read this post for a complete detailed list of what is new and improved in Netsparker 3.1

Netsparker 3 Makes Web Application Security Easier and Affordable

Tue, 25 Jun 2013

Press Release | Netsparker announces Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner version 3.0. The new version of Netsparker reduces the web security scan time to enable you to improve productivity, it confirms your payment web applications are PCI compliant, and helps you automated much more of your web application security scanning.

5 Lessons We Have learnt from Netsparker Software Releases

Thu, 02 Feb 2012

In this blog post, Ferruh Mavituna explains what he and his team has learnt from the releases of Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner. Ferruh shares his experience of how everything is done, how the team works and how every decision, even a small one might affect the whole release cycle of Netsparker.