We performed a comparison between Fortify WebInspect and NowSecure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HCLTech, OpenText, Rapid7 and others in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)."The solution is able to detect a wide range of vulnerabilities. It's better at it than other products."
"It's a well-known platform for doing dynamic application scanning."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the static analysis."
"Technical support has been good."
"Fortify WebInspect is a scalable solution, it is good for a lot of applications."
"It is scalable and very easy to use."
"The accuracy of its scans is great."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to download an application without actually putting in the APK. It gives us an option to put the APK in if we want to but we can download it from the App Store and Play Store."
"A localized version, for example, in Korean would be a big improvement to this solution."
"We have often encountered scanning errors."
"The scanner could be better."
"Our biggest complaint about this product is that it freezes up, and literally doesn't work for us."
"Fortify WebInspect could improve user-friendliness. Additionally, it is very bulky to use."
"It took us between eight and ten hours to scan an entire site, which is somewhat slow and something that I think can be improved."
"The installation could be a bit easier. Usually it's simple to use, but the installation is painful and a bit laborious and complex."
"The solution needs better integration with Microsoft's Azure Cloud or an extension of Azure DevOps. In fact, it should better integrate with any cloud provider. Right now, it's quite difficult to integrate with that solution, from the cloud perspective."
"In this solution, there are two kinds of testing, static analysis, and dynamic analysis. There needs some improvement in testing with dynamic analysis because I have found it is not accurate"
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Fortify WebInspect is ranked 2nd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 17 reviews while NowSecure is ranked 16th in Mobile App Testing Tools. Fortify WebInspect is rated 7.0, while NowSecure is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Fortify WebInspect writes "A powerful tool catering to multiple use cases that provides reasonably good technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NowSecure writes "Scalable and reliable, but dynamic analysis needs improvement". Fortify WebInspect is most compared with PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify on Demand, Acunetix, OWASP Zap and HCL AppScan, whereas NowSecure is most compared with Veracode, Data Theorem API Secure , Acunetix, Checkmarx One and GitLab.
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