Nikto Web Scanner is an open source scanner of web servers, web sites, virtual hosts.

It can run numerous tests, find many types of security and server configuration problems.

It is popular among test engineers because it allows to discover defects that are hard to detect, forgotten scripts, for example.

Among Nikto Web Scanner Functions Are:

SSL support;
full HTTP proxy support;
finds outdated server elements;
recognizes installed programs via headers, favicons, files;
captures and prints any received cookies.

Tool Usage in Our Projects

Security Testing

96%

Functional Testing

74%

Regression Testing

47%


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