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AppScan Standard Web Vulnerability Scanner

AppScan Standard (formerly Watchfire AppScan, now under IBM Security AppScan product family) is web vulnerability scanner (WVS), more specifically Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) base web vulnerability scanner use to protects against web application attacks and expensive data breaches by testing your application code.

Prevent security risks

It’s critical to adopt an application security strategy that protects applications during every phase of development. Testing web and mobile applications prior to deployment helps to counteract security risks, by generating vulnerability reports and fix recommendations. AppScan Standard automates appsec vulnerability testing, minimizes web app attacks and prevents costly data breaches by permitting you to test apps before deployment. AppScan Standard provides clear visibility across your infrastructure – helping you identify and prioritize threats based on business impact and mitigate risk by fixing code or deploying appropriate policies.

Avoid security vulnerabilities

Use automated Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and advanced static analysis (SAST) – “black box” and “white box” techniques– to detect developing security issues.

Empower accurate scanning

Scan websites to identify embedded vulnerabilities. Simplify interpretation of scan results with scan-specific explanations of each issue.

Get quick remediation

Fix high-priority problems first with streamlined remediation. Make fixes quickly with the provided remediation steps – including code examples and a task list.

Key features

  • Incorporate application security testing into DevOps
  • Enhance application security with Cognitive capabilities
  • Manage and reduce risk in web and mobile applications
  • Address your appsec risk

Provides a comprehensive view into application vulnerabilities

Configure, run and upload app scans with our cloud integration feature

Get in-depth understanding of app security issues

Customized reporting on industry standards and compliance

Product Overview

IBM Security AppScan® Standard is a security vulnerability testing tool for web applications and web services. It features the most advanced testing methods to help protect your site from the threat of cyber-attack, together with a full range of application data output options.

IBM SecurityAppScan Standard employs three distinct testing techniques that complement and enhance each other:

Dynamic Analysis (“black-box scanning”)
This is the primary method, testing and evaluating application responses during run-time.
Static Analysis (“white-box scanning”)
This is a unique technology that analyzes JavaScript code in the context of the full web page.
Interactive Analysis (“glass box scanning”)
The dynamic test engine can interact with a dedicated glass-box agent which resides on the web-server itself, enabling AppScan to identify more issues, and with greater accuracy, than by conventional dynamic testing alone
AppScan’s advanced capabilities include:

  • General and regulatory compliance reporting, with over 40 different templates available out-of-the-box
  • Customization and extensibility through the AppScan eXtension Framework, or by direct integration into existing systems using the AppScan SDK
  • Link categorization capabilities that go beyond application security to identify risks posed to users from links to malicious or other unwanted sites

AppScan Standard helps you decrease the risk of web application attacks and data breaches both before site deployment and for ongoing risk assessment in production.

AppScan Standard Latest Release and Update

Each time the software release and update, will change this post date and incorporate those latest information in this section.

AppScan Standard 9.0.10 – 9.0.3 Fix Pack 10 (Sep 20, 2018)

What’s new

A complete list of fixes in this version can be found at: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27021374

This fix pack includes the following improvements:

  • Web Services Configuration wizard

    The new Web Services Configuration Wizard helps you configure a scan based on the service’s Open API definition files (JSON and/or YAML). The wizard helps create the Explore stage traffic (rather than record it), and the configuration is then used to run an automatic scan.

 

AppScan Detailed System Requirements

For your convenience, the tabs below identify the supported releases of IBM Security AppScan Standard from which you can select detailed system requirement reports for different contexts (by Operating System, by component). Note that clicking a link will always generate a new, up-to-date report.

Note: AppScan Standard runs on Windows operating systems only. If glass box scanning is used, the glass box agent must be installed on the tested application’s server (Java and .NET platforms are supported). The system requirements listed for other (non-Windows) systems apply only to the server on which this glass box agent is installed.

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