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PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs Rapid7 InsightAppSec comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (8th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th), Fuzz Testing Tools (1st)
Rapid7 InsightAppSec
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is designed for Application Security Tools and holds a mindshare of 2.0%, up 2.0% compared to last year.
Rapid7 InsightAppSec, on the other hand, focuses on Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), holds 12.2% mindshare, down 13.7% since last year.
Application Security Tools
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
 

Featured Reviews

Anuradha.Kapoor Kapoor - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers efficient scanning of entire websites but presence of false positive bugs, leading to time-consuming efforts in distinguishing real bugs from false alarms
We have found that so many times, false positive bugs are there, and then we spend a lot of time basically separating them from real bugs. So that's the reason we are looking for some other tool. So we were in discussion with Acunetix. Therefore, the false positive rate is, like, something that we would like to improve. What we are looking for is if this false positive rate goes down because we were OWASP Zap tool users, which was free anyway. But there were a lot of false positives there, and we used to spend a lot of time, like, for security reasons, reproducing those bugs for the development team to fix it. So then we thought, okay, why not we go with the tool? Even if it is not very expensive. But still, every year, we have to renew the license. And we got this tool. Again, we found that in this tool also, even if it is less, there are still a lot of false positive bugs out there. So we again have to spend so much time. So we hired a security tester, who was basically using Acunetix in his previous company for almost three years, and then you said that in that scanning is very slow. The scanning is also slow. Like, sometimes the site scan takes eight hours, six to eight hours. Yeah. And whereas in Acunetix, it took three to four hours. And plus, there are no false positives. I'm not saying none but there's very little. But here, the rate sometimes is very high. These are the two features I think we would like to improve further.
Krzysztof Witko - PeerSpot reviewer
Automated authorization streamlines security processes
The previous product, AppSpyder, had a virtual patching module where we could generate patches for third-party web application firewalls, such as Imperva or F5. Currently, InsightAppSec lacks similar functionality. Customers must wait for remediation during the developers' preparation of a new version. Virtual patching could help protect web pages shortly after finishing the scan process.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The reporting part is the most valuable. It also has very good features. We use almost all of the features for different kinds of customers and needs."
"It offers flexibility, macros, and features to reduce the effort required for authenticated sessions."
"With the Extender Tab, if you know how to code then you can create a plugin and add it to Burp."
"The Spider is the most useful feature. It helps to analyze the entire web application, and it finds all the passes and offers an automated identification of security issues."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is one of the best user-friendly solutions for getting the proxy set up."
"The Repeater and the BApp extensions are particularly useful. Certain extensions, such as the Active Scan extensions and the Autoracer extension, are very good."
"I personally love its capability to automatically and accurately detect vulnerabilities. So, I would say it is the Burp scanner that is THE most powerful, valuable, and an awesome feature."
"For pentesting scenarios, this is the number one tool. It can capture the request, and there are so many functions that are very good for that. For example, a black box satellite host."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the graphical interface."
"I rate stability ten out of ten."
"The templates feature is very easy. You just choose the kind of attack you want on your web application, and you run it against that template and receive a report. It's great."
"The solution is stable."
"When considering DAST, it is not attributed to a singular feature but rather the capabilities of the engine that provides a genuine penetration testing experience and delivers insightful reports."
"You have various attack modules, and you also have the Attack Replay feature for the attack sequence. You can reproduce an attack and see it. That is a very good feature I noticed in this solution. It helps developers as well."
"We have seen measurable decrease in the mean time to respond to threats by 20 percent."
"I would rate the technical support from Rapid7 a ten, indicating high-quality support."
 

Cons

"I need the solution to be more user-friendly. The solution needs to be user-friendly."
"The biggest improvement that I would like to see from PortSwigger that today many people see as an issue in their testing. There might be a feature which might be desired."
"The tool is very expensive."
"The solution doesn't offer very good scalability."
"A lot of our interns find it difficult to get used to PortSwigger Burp's environment."
"Integration is a big problem."
"The one feature that I would like to see in Burp is active scanning of REST based web services. A lot of organizations are providing APIs to access their services to support different business models like SaaS. Scanning these APIs is still a challenge for many security product companies."
"The solution lacks sufficient stability."
"Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement in detecting phishing pages."
"The reporting feature of Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement as it currently provides basic reports."
"The reporting feature of Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement as it currently provides basic reports."
"We'd like to see integrations with WAF solutions."
"We get a lot of false positives during the tests."
"The dynamic scanning feature has simplified and improved the security testing process. I suggest adding a SaaS feature to the solution to support scanning SaaS applications, making it more comprehensive. It would be beneficial if the solution could also scan mobile applications. It only scans web applications and should also cover mobile applications, including firmware recommendations."
"Currently, InsightAppSec lacks similar functionality. Customers must wait for remediation during the developers' preparation of a new version."
"The number of web applications we can scan is limited."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a yearly license. I am satisfied with its price."
"There are different licenses available that include a free version."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is an expensive solution."
"For a country such as Sri Lanka, the pricing is not reasonable."
"The solution used to be expensive. However, they have reduced the price to approximately $400.00 which is reasonable."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is an expensive solution."
"We pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution, which is neither cheap nor expensive."
"The price for the solution is expensive and could be cheaper. We pay an annual license and our team has several of them."
"I'm not sure how much it costs exactly, but I know it's expensive."
"I rate Rapid7 InsightAppSec’s pricing an eight out of ten."
"Rapid7 InsightAppSec is cheap."
"The price of this product is very cheap."
"They offer a good price, but I don't remember its cost. It is fair as compared to the competition. We have opted for project-based licensing, not user-based. We can add any number of users. That doesn't matter. It is worth the money."
"Its price is competitive. It is not expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Is OWASP Zap better than PortSwigger Burp Suite Pro?
OWASP Zap and PortSwigger Burp Suite Pro have many similar features. OWASP Zap has web application scanning available with basic security vulnerabilities while Burp Suite Pro has it available with ...
What do you like most about PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?
The solution helped us discover vulnerabilities in our applications.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?
I find the price of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional to be very cost-efficient.
What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightAppSec?
In Rapid7 InsightAppSec, a distinctive feature is the provision of a CDM for integrating web servers and web applications. To establish the connection between these applications, you only need to p...
What needs improvement with Rapid7 InsightAppSec?
The reporting feature of Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement as it currently provides basic reports. It would be beneficial if there were an option for customers to customize reports to include ...
What is your primary use case for Rapid7 InsightAppSec?
We primarily use Rapid7 InsightAppSec for application security within our organization. We perform penetration testing on our in-house-built, Java-based web applications to comply with regulatory s...
 

Also Known As

Burp
InsightAppSec
 

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Sample Customers

Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce
CenterPoint Energy, CPA Australia, Hypertherm, First American Financial Corporation, Rackspace
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