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Rolling Review: N-Stalker Seeks, Doesn't Find: Page 4 of 6

Don't get us wrong—N-Stalker's idea has potential. If the log analyzer were integrated into the rest of the application and able to learn from the server profiling that the scanner is already doing, the data it produces could be potentially much more accurate and useful. And, it's inexpensive—$2,899 plus 20% maintenance per year. At that price, if you need log-scanner or infrastructure scanning using a large database of static vulnerabilities, and the bugs and quirks can be worked out of the system, this product might be a nice complement to another scanner better suited to finding unknown vulnerabilities.

As it is though, despite being called the Enterprise Edition, N-Stalker has its work cut out for it before we can recommend this scanner for enterprise use.

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ROLLING REVIEW: WEB APPLICATION SCANNERS

>THE INVITATION:
Although there's no shortage of security consultants who'll audit an application by hand or using other companies' tools, we limited the scope of this Rolling Review--in part so we wouldn't still be rolling along years from now--to Web application scanning products and software-as-a-service models. As such, a few vendors may be included twice: Once for their standalone products, then again as their service offering does the heavy lifting.