Application Security Insights

The Barracuda Networks presents Application security insights scanner that provides a high-level view of your application’s security posture.

Key capabilities:

You can analyze the security readiness of any application by simply entering its URL:

The tool performs a predefined set of 41 non-intrusive checks, including inspection of response headers, cookie configurations, TLS settings, and DNS configurations to identify potential security gaps.
It generates a comprehensive report that highlights findings, outlines potential risks, and provides clear, easy-to-understand remediation recommendations.
The report can be securely shared with application owners using a dedicated shareable link.

Benefit:

Application Security Insights helps improve application protection by identifying potential security gaps early, enabling teams to take corrective action before they can be exploited.

Analyzing an application

To start your free analysis:

Visit Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service Website Vulnerability Scanner.
Enter your domain name and click Start scan.

The tool will analyze your website and generate a detailed report with actionable insights.

Report Overview

Summary

This section provides a high-level view of your application’s security posture:

An overall security health rating, indicating whether your application is Poor, Bad, Average, Good, or Excellent.
The total number of findings, along with a visual breakdown by severity (High, Medium, Low, and Informational).
The top five risks identified on your website, including their severity and a brief description.
The ability to view detailed results for each finding, including assessment outcomes and recommended actions.

Vulnerabilities

Provides a list of specific attacks your website may be exposed to.

Click View details to know why the configuration is vulnerable to exploitation.

Secure Configuration

Details of the security checks your site passed, showing which components are properly configured.

Click View details to see why the Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service has identified a specific configuration as safe for your website.

Subdomains

Provides a list of subdomains linked to the scanned domain. These sub-domains can then be scanned again to check for vulnerabilities.