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."Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"GitLab is kind of an image of GitHub, so it gives us the flexibility to monitor our changes in the repos."
"We have seen a couple of merge requests or pull requests raised in GitLab. I see the interface, the way it shows the difference between the two source codes, that it is easy for anyone to do the review and then accept the request; the pull request is the valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"The scalability is good."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"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."
"It is very convenient to get reports from the tool, which offers high-level environmental statistics."
"It uses a signature-based method to check for problems with your code and will provide an alert if anything is found."
"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 solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the graphical interface."
"The product’s most valuable feature is UI. It is easy to manage and find vulnerabilities in the application."
"It's very easy to use and user-friendly. It does the job."
"The integration could be slightly better."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"I've noticed an area for improvement in GitLab, particularly needing to go through many steps to push the code to the repository. Resolving that issue would make the product better. My team quickly fixed it by writing a small script, then double-clicking or enabling the script to take care of the issue. However, that quick fix was from my team and not the GitLab team, so in the next release, if an automatic deployment feature would be available in GitLab, then that would be good because, in Visual Studio, you can do that with just one click of a button."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"I would like configuration of a YML file to be done via UI rather than a code file."
"I would like more details of what the product can do."
"We'd like to see integrations with WAF solutions."
"They should add more features. I would like to see them do a little more on static analysis and also interactivity analysis. Currently, it does very basic static analysis. It could do a little more static analysis, which is something that would help. A lot more interactivity analysis should also be there. It should basically look at security during interactivity."
"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 product’s pricing could be flexible."
"We get a lot of false positives during the tests."
"The only concern I have with Rapid7 is that it does not provide enough information about vulnerabilities within AppSec."
"Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement in detecting phishing pages."
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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