Acunetix is an application security platform that automates elements of vulnerability management by scanning your organization’s assets for known vulnerabilities.
Nucleus integrates with Acunetix for the aggregation segment of the vulnerability management process. With vulnerabilities found by Acunetix scans, Nucleus can triage threats to your organization and aid in the analysis and remediation process. Nucleus also can uniformly aggregate vulnerability data from Acunetix with vulnerability data collected by other scanners, streamlining the vulnerability management process for organizations using different scanning tools across departments or assets.
Use Cases
Common security use cases for Acunetix with Nucleus include:
Gain unified visibility into application vulnerabilities.
Prioritize Application Vulnerability’s for Remediation based on business context and threat intelligence
Surface source code vulnerabilities for developer remediation that aligns with their existing development workflows
Acunetix Reference Diagram
1: Sync application vulnerability data and asset context from Acunetix and other sources 2: Nucleus aggregates asset and vulnerability context across systems providing unified visibility 3: Threat intelligence is applied to vulnerabilities and business context is applied to assets 4: High risk threats are prioritized for remediation 5: Workflows help streamline remediation so the right teams can quickly take action 6: Track, report and measure the success of your vulnerability management program
How to Configure Acunetix
Acunetix connector setup documentation is available on the Nucleus help portal here.