Beagle Security

Avantages

Easy to use - select your website, click a button, sit back and let Beagle try and hack your site. I am impressed with the number of vulnerabilities Beagle found on what I thought was a secured website. The site is on Cloudways, using Cloudflare, Wordfence, and MalCare... yet Beagle found 22 vulnerabilities - 3 of which are critical. Not only did it find the vulnerabilities, but it also gave detailed explanations and instructions on how to fix them.

Inconvénients

Because of the deep scan and timed scans not to disrupt the site or use resources, it took over 15 hours to complete the first scan. Not a negative... just in a "I want it now" world, I got impatient.

Some of the suggested fixes were a little technical for me, although Beagle did its best to dumb it down for me. The cost and limited scans are also a con. My websites are not critical sites. If I had a site that was critical, the cost would not be an issue. I'd want the best to lock down my site and Beagle does that.

Avantages

Our team are not experienced to perform Penetration Tests on our own, but we are capable of implementing relevant fixes , this app take that load off and performs all the needed tests and provides a detailed report on what we have missed out. This allows us to safely implement the right measures for our client sites to further secure their businesses and their trust in us.

Inconvénients

While implementaion and executions are effortless,we only hope the team comes up with a way to allow us to perform remidial tests or targetted tests on previously tested sites to verify our fixes without consuming too much credits. But by itself we are able to manage them, this app has a bright future ahead of them.

Avantages

I would say that it is the best web application security tool currently available on the market. It is backed by a great team. I would recommend it to anyone who is serious about web application security.

Inconvénients

Depends on your plan, the test availability is too little.

Avantages

1. Extensive security testing, delivered via a very intuitive and beautiful Ux.
2. Comprehensive reporting containing the results as well as history tracking with fixed or remaining vulnerabilities.
3. Suggestions and how-to's in order to mitigate the discovered vulnerabilities.
4. The Beagle Security badge that can be displayed on my website, with an associated grade.

Inconvénients

Scans take long and can be taxing on the server. Also, you can't re-scan for specific vulnerabilities after taking mitigation steps; you need to repeat the entire scan, which can take up to 3 days to complete.
Although suggestions are provided, they aren't as comprehensive and someone inexperienced may have a hard time finding how to go about things. Also, it's not entirely clear how the final security score is calculated.

Avantages

The report and the insights that are given are very powerful. Everything is intuitive and easy to use on the UI side. The reports are well explained and can help you solve the problems ASAP. I have monitored the site while it was being tested and I could see in real-time the impact it was having, my security system is triggered and I can see that it is working as advertised. I also had a great experience with customer support, they were very informative and solved my problems immediately.

Inconvénients

Not much to dislike. Perhaps the long wait time for the scans to finish but that is understandable given the large number of tests performed. Now that I performed a few tests I can see why they are so powerful, however, we being an agency and working with customers, even though they offer a branding option there is no white-label version of the reports which might be a problem for some but for us we can live with it given how professional-looking they are and our logo showing up there on the first page anyway.

Avantages

Beagle Security is platform agnostic for the most part, so it can be run on any website or app. This is nice because we're not limited as we have several different websites/apps that we need to test: WordPress, WHMCS, Django, and Laravel-based apps. They also introduced shareable results, so they can be shared with others without account access. Lastly, they review the final results manually. It's a nice touch to ensure quality results are delivered once the test completes.

Inconvénients

There are really no cons at this point that I've noticed. Tests are time-consuming, so they can run anywhere from a few hours to several days. I understand why and there's no rush, so it's annoying but not a negative.

Avantages

I have been using Beagle Security for a few months now and I am so happy with it. I have had many issues with websites that are not secure, which have caused me to have to manually check the website after every update. With Beagle Security, I don't have to worry about anything. I can easily check for website vulnerabilities on my own time. Beagle Security also saves me a lot of time and money because I no longer need to manually check websites and update them.

Inconvénients

I wanted to analyse a website where i did not have ownership and could not because i had no ftp access or dns to prove ownership

Avantages

We were able to run a complete security scan in 2 days that would've taken a human user a few weeks to compile.

Inconvénients

The platform could incorporate more detailed explanations on how to fix vunerabilities. There IS documentation, but having the option to hire a dev to help out would be awesome.

Avantages

The support reply message relatively fast, ad answering & fixing bugs that I discover within an hour.
This app also giving me good insight on the loophole our sites might have and giving clear instructions / details on the issues.

We are planning to use this app to help build the confidence from client as we show them if someone is trying to hack their site, what are the potential ways they can gain access and we can help to fix it.

Inconvénients

It didn't show much about what kind of test it performed. So I can have some hard to explain to my boss and client telling them what they have done well.

Avantages

UI/UX is clean and easy to use.
No technical background needed.
Reports are detailed and precise.
Scheduling tasks is a breeze and new features are being added regularly!
Support team is quick and knowledgeable

Inconvénients

Needs more integrations like Zapier. Ability to run a check on a particular vulnerability is a must.

Avantages

Getting set-up is fairly easy. All you have to do is enter your website URL and verify domain ownership. There is also a Wordpress plugin for that. But you can also do it by uploading a file, adding a TXT record or some server commands.
Once you start your test, the fun happens. The level of analysis is comprehensive. Your website and server will be thoroughly tested for all sorts of vulnerabilities. The testing lasts a couple of days and are quite resource intensive on your server side. I have a small VPS of 2GB RAM, and the CPU goes from 1% to 90% during these tests. Uptime monitoring showed me that my website even went down a few times, for just a few seconds. I usually have 100% uptime.
So these are serious penetration tests and analysis done to your website, not just dust in your eyes.
Once the tests are complete, you get a detailed report of all the vulnerabilities found. These vulnerabilities are then categorized Critical, High, Medium, Low or just Info.
You immediately get an overall picture of how your site and server stands, security wise, with a score and color-coded issues.
I really love having this Big Picture vision, and then you can dive in each issue and see what it's about.
It also takes into account past tests. If you fixed something, or a new vulnerability is found, then that is shown in the report.

Inconvénients

This isn't non-techie friendly. There isn't enough information on how to actually fix the issues that are found. You need to know quite a bunch of stuff to understand what the results mean. It uses "techie language" that a normal business owner might not be familiar with.
So if you're serious about putting to use what you got, then you would need to start reading a bunch of stuff. And it's not a small amount of reading, since your site will probably have more than 100 vulnerabilities found.
Sure, it gives you recommendations on WHAT TO DO, but not HOW to do it. That's the tricky part.
I would recommend them focusing more on making their language and instructions to be user-friendly if they want to capture normal website owners, not tech gurus. A wiki of terms would also be a good idea to link each techie term to an explanation.
And step-by-step instructions on HOW to actually do what they recommend to implement. I understand that there are many ways to cook a rabbit, but try to at least give some.
Otherwise a normal website owner might get stuck, with pages of recommendations, but no way on implementing them.
Another issue is that you have to re-run the whole test again to check if you have indeed fixed the issues. I wish there would be a line-by-line re-test instead of making the whole test again, which takes a few days.

Avantages

Schedule automated penetration tests for your website. This is a recommended solution for any site owner. It's a no-fuss way to find vulnerabilities and get immediate recommendations on how to fix them. It's an easy-to-use, intuitive tool that integrates with various other app integrations (like Slack and Trello) so you can start tracking and fixing issues immediately.

Inconvénients

It is slow at times to complete a security test, though it is understandable that real-world penetration tests are performed versus some superficial scans which can't detect all issues in 2 minutes. Intially also my site went down as siteground detected beagle security as a bad bot, but upon request they whitelisted it.

Avantages

Beagle Security did an incredibly elaborate pentest followed up with a full 21-page report on the first site I had tested.

This was not a 60-second scan like many basic security services. These tests took a few hours, and the attention to detail was significant. These tests are much more like what we would pay a full-service manual penetration tester (or "ethical hacker") to do.

The report doesn't just list which risks exist. The report details the significance of the risk, mitigation recommendations, and the detail of what it specifically found.

Thank you for an awesome service!

Inconvénients

Be careful with testing cheap, low-resource servers because you can overload them. I would plan on doing tests after hours in case a test causes a hiccup. We had one DigitalOcean $5/month web server that we had to restart because a pentest caused it to cry. Not a problem with Beagle! Beagle has been great!

Avantages

It is very simple to use. It is enough to prove ownership of the website and authorize the penetration test. It does not matter if the web is built using a CMS or is its own code.

Inconvénients

I have not found anything that I can mention as a problem in the use of the program, but I would love that Beagle Security had more documentation and guides about the resolution of vulnerabilities.

Avantages

Very easy to run penetration test on your website using Beagle. No need to understand coding. Just follow the domain verification process and voila! you can start running a test. The test itself takes 3 hours up to 3 days since Beagle runs intensive penetration test to detect potential security loophole. The report is comprehensive and you can download it in PDF / CSV format. You can also schedule the test so you can automate the whole process. Beagle also recently releases uptime monitoring features and can send a notification to Slack / Discord / Email if you site or app is down.

Inconvénients

The test takes quite a long time. It is acceptable but if it can be accelerated, it would be great.

Avantages

Fantastic product, Amazing customer support - the response time & the level of knowledge provided is top class. constantly evolving to keep up with changes in the web application security landscape. I appreciate the user friendliness of the software and the ability to provide different levels of vulnerability reports, extremely detailed Report and It tests for a wide variety of vulnerabilities.

Inconvénients

There is absolutely nothing I dislike...

Avantages

I am not a tech savvy person, but I still love and find a ton of value in Beagle Security. I love the reports that Beagle Security provides. I scan my website monthly, and can send the reports to my developer to fix any threats. I can then run another scan to ensure they were fixed.

Inconvénients

There isn't anything that I dislike. I think it is great how it is already.

Avantages

Easy to use and understand, it covers a wide range of cyber threats, gives a complete report of the threats found.

Inconvénients

It takes a long time to run the test, 2 days in my case
The report provides mitigation steps but not for the average user.

Avantages

I thought I had security pretty much nailed down, turns out that's not the fact. Beagle Security showed me otherwise, which gave me even more information on how to secur our site and also the sites of our clients.

Inconvénients

There are quite a few gaps in the documentation and guidance, however I'm confident that this will change over time. It's lacking when it comes to guidance on how to solve certain critical issues, which means that you have to find out the rest of the information yourself.

Avantages

With the ease of use of the GUI, it's easy to start and collect tons of valuable test results. The test results are helpful, they indicate exactly what you need to do next to fix the weakness.

Inconvénients

The test amount per month for my plan is few. I wish that it could've been more.

Avantages

If you want to harden your website security and have a robust security plan, look no further and don't pay expensive fees to pen testers. This tool will automate the work for you and give detailed reports about the issues.

It is not a protection too, but a prevention tool. The UI looks nice, friendly, and adding webpage easy for penetration testing. It is very beginner and noob friendly.

During the test it used up to ~8Mbps upload bandwidth from the server (not constantly), but from time to time. Reports look professional. The tests can take from a couple of hours to days. If your site is high traffic, make sure tests are done during non-peak days.

Inconvénients

I wish the scan was fast. I guess, I can't have best of both worlds for now!

Avantages

With Beagle, I can regularly check all my created websites for possible security vulnerabilities. The dashboard is super minimalistic and you can't go wrong. Once an application is added and verified, the next security test is not even two clicks away. The detailed report shows which gaps should be closed urgently and even gives recommendations on what to do. I don't want to miss Beagle Security anymore, because especially with WordPress websites the possible gaps are numerous. Another advantage, because Beagle Security is always up to date.

Inconvénients

I would wish that reports would be available in several languages. Also a separate plugin for Wordpress, which closes the most common security gaps (e.g. version number) would be a dream.

Avantages

I like the price, ease of use and WordPress plugin it offers. I like the UI & UX of the app. They have a very quick support team on the intercom.

Inconvénients

I wish they work & improve their WordPress plugin. I would like to see more features added for WordPress integration.

Avantages

Very easy to set up and use; excellent reporting

Inconvénients

Some of the features are not easy to understand for non-professionals, e.g. API audit.
Still some bugs such as not accepting recognizing a domain name for verification

Avantages

Penetration testing.

Documenration.

Customer Support.

Ease of deployment.

Inconvénients

It's hard to find what ro dislike about this software.