We performed a comparison between GitLab and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional 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."It's a great toolbox where the CI/CD pipeline is the fundamental component, but there are so many other features that you can pull from, which makes it a very powerful tool. My current client is using AWS, and they can, of course, use AWS CodePipeline, but GitLab is much more mature than that, and it also gives you the freedom to decide to go to another platform or have a multi-cloud strategy and things like that. That freedom for me is also very valuable."
"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"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."
"It is scalable."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"A user friendly solution."
"The active scanner, which does an automated search of any web vulnerabilities."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"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."
"It helps in API testing, where manual intervention was previously necessary for each payload."
"We use the solution for vulnerability assessment in respect of the application and the sites."
"You can scan any number of applications and it updates its database."
"The solution has a limited range of functions, which is good for small companies. This is because, in small companies, websites are less complex. They also have single services which makes the solution good enough for them. However, the most advantageous aspect of the solution is its affordable price."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"Atlassian offers more products than GitLab. GitLab offers source control management, version control and collaboration between developers. Atlassian offers features on top of this as well as more integration points for developers."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"The number of false positives need to be reduced on the solution."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Mitigating the issues and low confluence issues needs some improvement. Implementing demand with the ChatGPT under the web solution is an additional feature I would like to see in the next release."
"One thing that is not up to the mark in PortSwigger is web application testing. I found some issues with its performance and reporting. They should work on these and give us a better outcome."
"Scanning APIs using PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional takes a lot of time."
"The use of system memory is an area that can be improved because it uses a lot."
"If your application uses multi-factor authentication, registration management cannot be automated."
"In the Professional version, we cannot link it with the CI/CD process."
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GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 9th in Application Security Tools with 55 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional 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 PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional writes "The solution is versatile and easy to deploy, but it needs to give more detailed security reports". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Fortify on Demand. See our GitLab vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional report.
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