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Fortra's Digital Defense Frontline Web Application Scanner (WAS) is an easy-to-use security solution that provides prioritized vulnerability reporting and technical recommendations so your remediation team can tackle the biggest threats, first. Frontline WAS easily runs dynamic web application tests with accurate results, not matter how much your web apps change.

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project's goal is to create a framework to help you secure your web applications by finding and exploiting all web application vulnerabilities. Our framework is proudly developed using Python to be easy to use and extend, and licensed under GPLv2.0.
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Fortra's Digital Defense Frontline WAS is ranked 57th in Application Security Tools while w3af is ranked 41st in Application Security Tools. Fortra's Digital Defense Frontline WAS is rated 0.0, while w3af is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of w3af writes "It's buggy and seems to try to do too many things, but having this on a USB drive has been valuable". Fortra's Digital Defense Frontline WAS is most compared with , whereas w3af is most compared with Acunetix.

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