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  • "The pricing is okay."
  • "It follows the same licensing scheme as Tenable.io and Tenable. sc."
  • "The price of the solution is reasonable compared to the competitors. The license cost is based on the number of users and the annual usage."
  • "Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is expensive for small businesses."
  • "The application is extremely affordable. There are no additional costs involved with licensing. We switched to Tenable.io Web Application Scanning from other solutions due to pricing."
  • "I rate the product's pricing a four out of ten."
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    Top Answer:The most effective feature of the product is the ability to scan the entire environment.
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    Tenable.io Web Application Scanning safely, accurately and automatically scans your web applications, providing deep visibility into vulnerabilities and valuable context to prioritize remediation.

    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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    Computer Software Company25%
    Security Firm17%
    Educational Organization17%
    University8%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Media Company11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Small Business40%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise40%
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    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is ranked 24th in Application Security Tools with 14 reviews while w3af is ranked 40th in Application Security Tools. Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is rated 7.6, while w3af is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Tenable.io Web Application Scanning writes "Highly Recommended Solution with Latest Scanning Methods". 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". Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is most compared with Acunetix, SonarQube, Qualys Web Application Scanning, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify on Demand, whereas w3af is most compared with Acunetix and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.

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