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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
6.3
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (8th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (5th), Fuzz Testing Tools (1st)
Rapid7 InsightAppSec
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (5th), AI Observability (11th)
 

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 2.7%, up 2.0% compared to last year.
Rapid7 InsightAppSec, on the other hand, focuses on Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), holds 6.2% mindshare, up 4.2% since last year.
Application Security Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional2.7%
SonarQube16.3%
Checkmarx One9.9%
Other71.1%
Application Security Tools
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Rapid7 InsightAppSec6.2%
Veracode17.2%
Checkmarx One16.4%
Other60.2%
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
 

Featured Reviews

MH
Penetration Tester & Information Security Expert at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Dedicated browser and repeater have improved my proxy testing and manual vulnerability checks
I'm hoping perhaps for something to make it easier, such as to define things where if a message or a response is such and such, automatically make a request that is such and such. Perhaps something like this because otherwise, nowadays we have to do it manually. Perhaps they can automate it a bit more. Perhaps they could add some automation to things, to see what we do manually, which it has the tools to do manually, and perhaps enable with a click of a button to do things automatically. I'm not too sure which, but I'm sure they can from a product management point of view, do things that we need to do two, three, or four steps manually regarding specific testing. For instance, we want to check something specific if it's this or if it's that. Perhaps to define it once and have it more automatic, perhaps.
Shritam Bhowmick - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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."
""The product is very good just the way it is; It has everything already well established and functions great. I can't see any way for this current version to be improved.""
"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 Burp Suite Professional is its ability to schedule tasks for scanning websites, which helps in performing regular checks of IP addresses."
"You can download different plugins if you don't have them in the standard edition."
"I find all the features of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional most useful, particularly the AI enhancement for results and follow-up for retests."
"The automated scan is what I find most useful because a lot of customers will need it. Not every domain will be looking for complete security, they just need a stamp on the security key. For these kinds of customers, the scan works really well."
"If a company needs an effective product for web scanning, I can recommend this product."
"It's very easy to use and user-friendly, and it does the job."
"The automatic automation of the automated authorization to the SCANNET environment is valuable."
"It is very convenient to get reports from the tool, which offers high-level environmental statistics."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the graphical interface."
"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, which is great."
"I would rate the technical support from Rapid7 a ten, indicating high-quality support."
"Customers use the product for scanning purposes and do not want to be restricted with respect to the number of scans they perform."
 

Cons

"I am from Brazil. The currency exchange rate from a dollar to a Brazilian Real is quite steep. It is almost six to one. It would be good if it can be sold in the local currency, and its price is cheaper for us."
"There is not much automation in the tool."
"The vendor must provide documentation on how to use the new API feature."
"I would like to see a more optimized solution, as it currently uses a lot of CPU power and memory."
"I would like to see a more optimized solution, as it currently uses a lot of CPU power and memory."
"It would be good if the solution could give us more details about what exactly is defective."
"The professional edition of Burp Suite provides some automated pen-testing scripts to detect application vulnerabilities, like SQL injection, XSS, etc. However, this component is not extremely useful."
"There are some memory issues, where the application runs out of memory and crashes."
"The product’s pricing could be flexible."
"The number of web applications we can scan is limited."
"The reporting is definitely an aspect of the solution that's in need of some work."
"The interface should be a little bit easier to manage. Sometimes, the logic that they use is kind of strange."
"The technical support from Rapid7 is not bad, but the response time can be quite slow sometimes."
"I would like more details of what the product can do."
"In the future, if they can have integration with a lot of ticketing systems then it would be amazing."
"Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement in detecting phishing pages."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a lower priced tool that we can rely on with good standard mechanisms."
"I rate the pricing a four out of ten."
"It is expensive for us in Brazil because the currency exchange rate from a dollar to a Brazilian Real is quite steep."
"The platform's pricing is reasonable."
"Burp Suite is affordable."
"This is a value for money product."
"We pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution, which is neither cheap nor expensive."
"The cost is approximately $500 for a single license, and there are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"I rate Rapid7 InsightAppSec’s pricing an eight out of ten."
"I'm not sure how much it costs exactly, but I know it's expensive."
"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."
"Rapid7 InsightAppSec is cheap."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise35
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
 

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?
The cost of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is reasonable at approximately $500 per year per user.
What needs improvement with Rapid7 InsightAppSec?
Customers sometimes experience issues with performance. One thing that I recall is that most customers often want to have reporting as per their customized dashboard. This needs to be improved beca...
What is your primary use case for Rapid7 InsightAppSec?
I usually recommend this solution for financial institutions. Banks and financial institutions need this solution mostly because they have to follow stringent compliance advisory requirements, so t...
What advice do you have for others considering Rapid7 InsightAppSec?
I have not heard any complaints. I do not have any recommendations because customers were initially worried about the number of scans they used to perform, and now it has been enhanced or it will 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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