Dynamic application security testing

Web Application Security Scanners (or Web Application Vulnerability Scanners) are tools designed to automatically scan web applications for potential vulnerabilities. These tools differ from general vulnerability assessment tools in that they do not perform a broad range of checks on a myriad of software and hardware. Instead, they perform other checks, such as potential field manipulation and cookie poisoning, which allows a more focused assessment of web applications by exposing vulnerabilities of which standard VA tools are unaware.