We performed a comparison between Fortify Application Defender 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."The information from Fortify Application Defender on how to fix and solve issues is very good compared to other solutions."
"The tool's most valuable feature is software composition analysis. This feature works well with my .NET applications, providing a better understanding of library vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically feed it rules what it's coupled with the WebInspect dynamic application scanning technology."
"We are able to provide out customers with a secure application after development. They are no longer left wondering if they are vulnerable to different threats within the market following deployment."
"The most valuable features of Fortify Application Defender are the code packages that are default."
"Its ability to find security defects is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is that it analyzes data in real-time."
"I find the configuration of rules in Fortify Application Defender useful. Its integration is also easy."
"The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the Burp Intruder tool."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is one of the best user-friendly solutions for getting the proxy set up."
"It is useful for scanning and tracing activities."
"I have found the best features to be the performance and there are a lot of additional plugins available."
"The suite testing models are very good. It's very secure."
"The Repeater and the BApp extensions are particularly useful. Certain extensions, such as the Active Scan extensions and the Autoracer extension, are very good."
"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."
"It offers very good accuracy. You can trust the results."
"The false positive rate should be lower."
"The workbench is a little bit complex when you first start using it."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Fortify Application Defender gives a lot of false positives."
"Support for older compilers/IDEs is lacking."
"The biggest complaint that I have heard concerns additional platform support because right now, it only supports applications that are written in .NET and Java."
"The licensing can be a little complex."
"Fortify Application Defender could improve by supporting more code languages, such as GRAAS and Groovy."
"The use of system memory is an area that can be improved because it uses a lot."
"If we're running a huge number of scans regularly, it slows down the tool."
"There were a lot of false positives there, and we used to spend a lot of time, like, for security reasons, reproducing those bugs for the development team to fix it."
"I would like to see the return of the spider mechanism instead of the crawling feature. Burp Suite's earlier version 1.7 had an excellent spider option, and it would be beneficial if Burp incorporated those features into the current version. The crawling techniques used in the current version are not as efficient as those used in earlier versions."
"We wish that the Spider feature would appear in the same shape that it does in previous versions."
"Currently, the scanning is only available in the full version of Burp, and not in the Community version."
"One area that can be improved, when compared to alternative tools, is that they could provide different reporting options and in different formats like PDF or something like that."
"I need the solution to be more user-friendly. The solution needs to be user-friendly."
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Fortify Application Defender is ranked 30th in Application Security Tools with 11 reviews while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 10th in Application Security Tools with 57 reviews. Fortify Application Defender is rated 7.8, while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortify Application Defender writes "Useful for fast code review in devOps pipelines ". 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". Fortify Application Defender is most compared with Checkmarx One, CAST Application Intelligence Platform, Coverity, SonarQube and Qualys Web Application Scanning, whereas PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning. See our Fortify Application Defender vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional report.
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