PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs Rapid7 InsightAppSec comparison

The compared PortSwigger and Rapid7 solutions aren't in the same category. PortSwigger is ranked #9 in AS , with an average rating of 9.1, and holds a 2.4% mindshare in the category. Rapid7 is ranked #6 in DAST , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 6.0% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of PortSwigger users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Rapid7 InsightAppSec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs. Rapid7 InsightAppSec Report (Updated: May 2022).

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PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs. Rapid7 InsightAppSec

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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

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (9th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (5th), Fuzz Testing Tools (1st)

Rapid7 InsightAppSec

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (6th), AI Observability (9th)

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 2.4%, up 1.9% compared to last year.
Rapid7 InsightAppSec, on the other hand, focuses on Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), holds 6.0% mindshare, up 3.8% since last year.

Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional	2.4%
SonarQube	17.9%
Checkmarx One	10.2%
Other	69.5%

Application Security Tools

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Rapid7 InsightAppSec	6.0%
Veracode	19.4%
Checkmarx One	17.2%
Other	57.400000000000006%

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Featured Reviews

Arther Magaya

Head Of Information Security at Aura

AI-driven analyses improve efficiency and reliability

I find all the features of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional most useful, particularly the AI enhancement for results and follow-up for retests. This feature helps me follow up on my results and perform retests step-by-step. The automation in AI verifies the findings, ensuring they are correct, and performs step-by-step testing. The Intruder tool enhances testing efficiency through intercepting information and analyzing it. It helps to analyze web applications and intercept the traffic.

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Shritam Bhowmick

Vulnerability Management Lead at garrett

Provides reliable applications security but needs better integration options

There are areas for improvements regarding false positives. Integration capabilities are lacking, as options for integrations with other tools such as SNOW, Jira, or other integration tools are not sufficient in Rapid7 InsightAppSec. The user interface sometimes has glitches, which may prevent appropriate results during navigation, and even when we get appropriate results, it can be impossible to export them to CSV records or download files. Regarding scalability, Rapid7 InsightAppSec is not a scalable solution for our industry due to limited integration capabilities. Rapid7 relies on another tool called InsightConnect, which requires additional investment, detracting from scalability. Another area that needs improvement is the integration of AI capabilities into the platform. Both Rapid7 InsightAppSec and InsightVM need to advance in that area. In terms of behavioral and pattern recognition, identifying complex attacks such as SQL, blind SQL, JSON, and LDAP injections often results in 94% false positives. This necessitates improvement in their behavioral-based analytics feature.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional has an intercept tab that helps us to scan our APIs, set the response, and request errors."

"I have found the best features to be the performance and there are a lot of additional plugins available."

"I find all the features of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional most useful, particularly the AI enhancement for results and follow-up for retests."

"The most valuable features are Burp Intruder and Burp Scanner."

"The most valuable feature is the application security. It also has a reasonable price."

"It's good testing software."

"We are mostly using it for scanning the entire website. So, we basically create a script with the entire website and then run it for different injections."

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is one of the best user-friendly solutions for getting the proxy set up."

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"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 paste the provided CDN into your metadata. Once connected, every piece of information, including vulnerabilities, can be accessed. It also offers demo sessions."

"Relatively speaking, InsightAppSec is good compared to Insight VM."

"Dynamic application security scanning provides predefined templates and supports customization. The ability to scan external and internal applications, including on-premises ones, is precious. Additionally, it is a cloud platform, so we don't need to deploy servers or resources. This makes it time-efficient and cost-effective."

"It is very convenient to get reports from the tool, which offers high-level environmental statistics."

"The solution is stable."

"Relatively speaking, InsightAppSec is good compared to Insight VM."

"It is a very robust solution."

"The automatic automation of the automated authorization to the SCANNET environment is valuable."

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Cons

"A lot of our interns find it difficult to get used to PortSwigger Burp's environment."

"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."

"Scanning needs to be improved in enterprise and professional versions."

"The price could be better. The rest is fine."

"Scanning APIs using PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional takes a lot of time."

"The technical support team's response time is mostly delayed and should be improved."

"The Initial setup is a bit complex."

"The solution doesn't offer very good scalability."

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"They should add more features. I would like to see them do a little more on static analysis and also interactivity analysis. Currently, it does very basic static analysis. It could do a little more static analysis, which is something that would help. A lot more interactivity analysis should also be there. It should basically look at security during interactivity."

"The interface should be a little bit easier to manage. Sometimes, the logic that they use is kind of strange. They need to work a little bit more on their interface to make it more understandable. The interface is the only problem. I'm using Rapid7, which is very intuitive. There are other applications available in the market with a better interface. They can include more techniques or options to test different types of security because the templates are limited. It would be great to see them follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework or what is there in tools like Veracode and Synopsys."

"The product’s pricing could be flexible."

"The number of web applications we can scan is limited."

"Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement in detecting phishing pages."

"In terms of behavioral and pattern recognition, identifying complex attacks such as SQL, blind SQL, JSON, and LDAP injections often results in 94% false positives."

"The only concern I have with Rapid7 is that it does not provide enough information about vulnerabilities within AppSec."

"We get a lot of false positives during the tests."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are different licenses available that include a free version."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is an expensive solution."

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is expensive compared to other tools."

"This solution requires a license. It is expensive but you receive a lot of functionality for the price."

"It has a yearly license. I am satisfied with its price."

"PortSwigger is reasonably-priced. It's fair."

"Pricing is not very high. It was around $200."

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"The price of this product is very cheap."

"Its price is competitive. It is not expensive."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	35

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

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 ...

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What do you like most about PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?

The solution helped us discover vulnerabilities in our applications.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?

The cost of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is reasonable at approximately $500 per year per user.

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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...

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What needs improvement with Rapid7 InsightAppSec?

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What is your primary use case for Rapid7 InsightAppSec?

Our main use case for Rapid7 InsightAppSec is to perform internal assessment of applications and external facing applications. We have a cloud engine plus on-premises engine, and we have been lever...

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Also Known As

Burp

InsightAppSec

Overview

Burp Suite Professional, by PortSwigger, is the world’s leading toolkit for web security testing. Over 52,000 users worldwide, across all industries and organization sizes, trust Burp Suite Professional to find more vulnerabilities, faster. With expertly-engineered manual and automated tooling, you're able to test smarter - not harder.

PortSwigger is the web security company that is enabling the world to secure the web. Over 50,000 security engineers rely on our software and expertise to secure their world.

PortSwigger

Your web applications may be complex, but your application security testing tool doesn’t need to be. InsightAppSec brings Rapid7’s proven Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) technology to the Insight platform, combining powerful application crawling and attack capabilities, flexibility in scan scope and scheduling, and accuracy in results with a modern UI, intuitive workflows, and sensible data organization. This enables you to identify XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, and other vulnerabilities with unparalleled ease. The best part? All of these capabilities are delivered via the cloud so that you’re up and running in minutes to identify the critical security risks that exist in your applications.

Rapid7

Sample Customers

Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce

CenterPoint Energy, CPA Australia, Hypertherm, First American Financial Corporation, Rackspace

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