PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs Rapid7 InsightAppSec comparison

The compared PortSwigger and Rapid7 solutions aren't in the same category. PortSwigger is ranked #10 in AS , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 2.2% mindshare in the category. Rapid7 is ranked #2 in DAST , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 9.6% 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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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 (10th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th), 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) (2nd)

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 2.2%, up 1.8% compared to last year.
Rapid7 InsightAppSec, on the other hand, focuses on Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), holds 9.6% mindshare, up 9.6% since last year.

Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional	2.2%
SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube)	20.5%
Checkmarx One	10.4%
Other	66.9%

Application Security Tools

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Rapid7 InsightAppSec	9.6%
OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing	17.7%
HCL AppScan	14.0%
Other	58.7%

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Featured Reviews

Anton Krivonosov

Application Security Architect at Kuehne & Nagel Inc.

A special tool for penetration testers or security specialists to conduct security assessments

We use the solution for security assessments. It's a special tool for penetration testers or security specialists PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is a standard tool in the security industry. It's a stable solution that has many features. You can download different plugins if you don't have…

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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

"I rate PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional ten points out of ten."

"There is no other tool like it. I like the intuitiveness and the plugins that are available."

"The way they do the research and they keep their profile up to date is great. They identify vulnerabilities and update them immediately."

"I find the attack model quite amazing, where I can write my scripts and load my scripts as well, which helps quite a bit. All the active scanning that it can do is also quite a lot helpful. It speeds up our vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. Right now, I am enjoying its in-browser, which also helps quite a bit. I'm always confused about setting up some proxy, but it really is the big solution we all want."

"The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the Burp Intruder tool."

"Enables automation of different tasks such as authorization testing."

"It offers flexibility, macros, and features to reduce the effort required for authenticated sessions."

"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."

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

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

"It's very easy to use and user-friendly. It does the job."

"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."

"The product’s most valuable feature is UI. It is easy to manage and find vulnerabilities in the application."

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

"It uses a signature-based method to check for problems with your code and will provide an alert if anything is found."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the graphical interface."

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Cons

"One area that can be improved, when compared to alternative tools, is that they could provide different reporting options and in different formats like PDF or something like that."

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

"We'd like to have more integration potential across all versions of the product."

"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."

"If we're running a huge number of scans regularly, it slows down the tool."

"In the Professional version, we cannot link it with the CI/CD process."

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

"Sometimes the solution can run a little slow."

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"In the future, if they can have integration with a lot of ticketing systems then it would be amazing."

"When you add new projects for the same product, it either duplicates or replaces the scan configuration. If I run a scan for the same product with a different scan configuration, it should keep the previous scan configuration and not replace it with the new scan configuration. It should just add the new scan configuration. That would be helpful. They do keep the results as it is, but the scan configuration keeps changing. For example, I have set a scan configuration to a full scan, and next week, I want to run a new scan for the same product with some changes or new functionalities. I want to run a partial scan. Currently, if I change the scan configuration to partial, it changes the old one also to partial. That should be improved."

"The reporting is definitely an aspect of the solution that's in need of some work. We found that we'd try to use widgets, but often getting them to work for us wasn't very clear. They need to be more user friendly or offer better instructions."

"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."

"Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement in detecting phishing pages."

"The product’s pricing could be flexible."

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"PortSwigger is a bit expensive."

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

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is an expensive solution."

"Licensing costs are about $450/year for one use. For larger organizations, they're able to test against multiple applications while simultaneously others might have multiple versions of applications which needs to be tested which is why we have the enterprise edition."

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

"It is a cheap solution, but it may not be cheaper than other solutions."

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

"They should reduce the license cost a little bit. It is $400 per user, and it would be better if they could reduce the licensing fee."

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"The price of this product is very cheap."

"I'm not sure how much it costs exactly, but I know it's expensive."

"Rapid7 InsightAppSec is cheap."

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

"I rate Rapid7 InsightAppSec’s pricing an eight out of ten."

"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

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

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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