Industry: IT & Telecommunications
Company: Unify
Location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Product: Invicti Enterprise
“When we were looking for a new web application security scanner in 2011, we tested several tools. Invicti is the best web application security scanner in terms of price/performance. It is very stable software, faster than the previous tool we used, and it gives almost no false positives, which is exactly what we were looking for,”
Harald Nandke
Principal Consultant at Unify
Unify is a leading global communications software and services company, providing integrated solutions to approximately 75 percent of the Fortune Global 500. They unify multiple networks, devices, and applications into a single, easy-to-use platform that empowers teams to engage in meaningful conversations. Unify is known for its product reliability, innovation, open standards, and security.
Unify’s Need for Web Application Security
Unify develops web products, as well as providing security and penetration testing services. As a company that prides itself on 160 years of experience in communications technology, it cannot afford to provide vulnerable web applications or not detect all vulnerabilities in a customer’s resource during a pentest.
To maintain its customer base and ensure growth, Unify is setting an example: the tools its security experts use to scan web applications are also used for all customer penetration tests. By doing this, Unify also ensures that all clients get the best: what they trust.
The challenge of identifying all vulnerabilities and security flaws
Unify security experts used to perform manual penetration tests a few years ago. However, as both their products and customers’ web applications grew and became more complex, they needed security tools to keep up with all the new web development frameworks and the increasing demand.
By using the right solutions, Unify’s experts were able to automate most of the processes while also identifying potential attack surfaces in a web application. Thus, by combining manual testing with automated scanning, the Unify security team was able to not only save time and money, but also ensure that all vulnerabilities and flaws were detected.
Choosing the Right Web Application Security Scanner
Finding the right web application security scanner is not easy when you have to scan thousands of websites and web applications built using many different web frameworks and running on different web servers.
Given the urgency of the matter, Unify security experts chose a popular commercial tool, although it soon failed them due to a large number of false positives. They significantly reduce productivity because instead of relying on the scanner’s findings, thery had to verify its results, which results in the loss of all the benefits of automation.
Unify security experts decided to dive deeper into automation technologies.
Unify and Invicti Strong Partnership
Unify has been using Invicti’s web application security scanner for years. They scan at least thirty web applications per month, and that number is growing. Such a strong partnership would not be possible without technical support, especially in this complex and ever-evolving industry.
“We have used Invicti support from time to time, and the experience has been very good. We are satisfied with the response time, as well as the quality of the services and solutions.”
Invicti has become a valuable product in Unify’s security toolkit. It allows its specialists to efficiently scan their own web applications, as well as those of their customers, to detect the most critical security threats before the pentest is even finished.
About Unify
Unify is a global communications software and services company. They integrate their customers’ communications systems. By aligning technologies, creating engaging user experiences, and seamlessly integrating communications into the way businesses operate, they enable teams to work better together. The result is a transformation in the way enterprises communicate and collaborate, strengthening collective efforts, energizing businesses, and driving better productivity.
