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"Exactly. Acunetix changed their EULA last year. You just can't exceed the concurrent scan limit. Stored targets are fine."
Mark logged into the Acunetix portal. He stared at the dashboard: Active License: 25 Targets.
Mark paused. "Wait. So I don't need to license all forty-three permanently? Just the active scanning slots?" acunetix license
He also discovered a hidden feature in their Enterprise license— Scan Pooling . By reconfiguring, he could share licenses across two on-premises engines, effectively giving him 50 concurrent scans for the price of 25, as long as the total active didn't exceed the cap.
As a Senior Security Engineer at a mid-sized fintech company, Mark dreaded the last week of every quarter. That was "License Renewal Hell." "Exactly
The next morning, Mark discovered that the critical PCI-DSS scan for their payment gateway had never run. The compliance report was due in 48 hours.
He clicked through the licensing tiers. Acunetix didn’t charge by user or by scan—it charged by Target . A "Target" was a single domain, IP, or OpenAPI definition. If a single web app had three subdomains (api, admin, shop), that was three targets. Stored targets are fine
Twenty-five. He now had forty-three public-facing apps, plus internal dev tools.