An Analysis of Vulnerability Scanners in Web Applications for VAPT

Though the development in cybersecurity for protecting the websites and applications are growing rapidly, the attacks on these crucial websites are still happening. Irrespective of the development of society, third-party attacks would always increase correspondingly. To protect these websites and web applications, the developers would always use defensive mechanisms to survive third party attacks. But the reliability of the website's strength against third party attacks depends on several factors. Intruders are now using automated structures in form of BOTS, AI, ML, to perform these attacks.Need of security arises from the initial stages of planning and development. As part of SEP (Security Engineering Process) defined by individual vendors and companies for securing the system and performing risk analysis, Vulnerability Analysis are essential as part of standard procedures. Apart from SEP, VAPT (Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing) now forms the standard operating measures for prevention of intrusion activities. We hereby focus on various vulnerability analysis tools forming basis for vulnerability analysis and Penetration testing (VAPT) for short and try to analyze the various impact with respect to stages of penetration testing.