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We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in penetration testing tools category. Our data sources in penetration testing tools category include;
Penetration testing software (also called penetration testing tools) enables businesses to simulate cyber attacks against your computer system to check for exploitable vulnerabilities. If unauthorized access is possible with penetration testing, the system has to be corrected.
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We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in penetration testing tools category. Our data sources in penetration testing tools category include;
review websites
social media websites
search engine data for branded queries
According to the weighted combination of 7 data sources
Nessus
HackerOne
Intruder
bugcrowd
Kali Linux
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current penetration testing tools market leaders. Market leaders are not the overall leaders since market leadership doesn’t take into account growth rate.
Nessus
HackerOne
Intruder
Veracode
Metasploit
These are the number of queries on search engines which include the brand name of the solution. Compared to other Cybersecurity categories, Penetration Testing Tools is more concentrated in terms of top 3 companies’ share of search queries. Top 3 companies receive 81%, 2% more than the average of search queries in this area.
136 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 115 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 16 companies with >10 employees are offering penetration testing tools. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 100k employees. The largest company building penetration testing tools is Verizon with more than 100,000 employees.
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the fastest growing solutions:
Nessus
HackerOne
Intruder
bugcrowd
AttackIQ Platform
We have analyzed reviews published in the last months. These were published in 4 review platforms as well as vendor websites where the vendor had provided a testimonial from a client whom we could connect to a real person.
These solutions have the best combination of high ratings from reviews and number of reviews when we take into account all their recent reviews.
This data is collected from customer reviews for all Penetration Testing Tools companies. The most positive word describing Penetration Testing Tools is “Easy to use” that is used in 13% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 4.00% of all the Penetration Testing Tools reviews.
According to customer reviews, most common company size for penetration testing tools customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 39% of penetration testing tools customers. For an average Cybersecurity solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 34% of total customers.
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all Penetration Testing Tools. Penetration Testing Tools is most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Customer Service".
This category was searched on average for 8.1k times per month on search engines in 2022. This number is still 8.1k in 2023. If we compare with other cybersecurity solutions, a typical solution was searched 736 times in 2022 and this decreased to 590 in 2023.