We performed a comparison between GitLab 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."I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"The most important features of GitLab for us are issue management and all the CI/CD tools. Another aspect that I love about GitLab is the UI."
"The stability is good."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"I like that you can use GitLab as a double-sided solution for both DevOps and version management. It's a good product for working in these two areas, and the user interface makes it easy to understand."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"It is very convenient to get reports from the tool, which offers high-level environmental statistics."
"It is a very robust solution."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"We have seen measurable decrease in the mean time to respond to threats by 20 percent."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup for us was easy enough. We didn't face too many issues. Deployment took maybe 30 minutes. It's quite quick and doesn't cause too much trouble at the outset."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
"GitLab could consider introducing a code-scanning tool. Purchasing such tools from external markets can incur charges, which might not be favorable. Integrating these features into GitLab would streamline the pipeline and make it more convenient for users."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"The solution should be more cloud-native and have more cloud-native capabilities and features."
"I would like to have some features to support peer review."
"We'd like to see integrations with WAF solutions."
"The product’s pricing could be flexible."
"The number of web applications we can scan is limited."
"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."
"We get a lot of false positives during the tests."
"Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement in detecting phishing pages."
"In the future, if they can have integration with a lot of ticketing systems then it would be amazing."
GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews while Rapid7 InsightAppSec is ranked 3rd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 12 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Rapid7 InsightAppSec is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightAppSec writes "A highly scalable and robust product that enables users to automate scans". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Rapid7 InsightAppSec is most compared with Rapid7 AppSpider, OWASP Zap, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify WebInspect and Acunetix. See our GitLab vs. Rapid7 InsightAppSec report.
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