We performed a comparison between NowSecure and OWASP Zap based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)."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."
"It scans while you navigate, then you can save the requests performed and work with them later."
"The interface is easy to use."
"The community edition updates services regularly. They add new vulnerabilities into the scanning list."
"The most valuable feature is scanning the URL to drill down all the different sites."
"You can run it against multiple targets."
"The application scanning feature is the most valuable feature."
"The OWASP's tool is free of cost, which gives it a great advantage, especially for smaller companies to make use of the tool."
"Simple and easy to learn and master."
"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"
"OWASP Zap needs to extend to mobile application testing."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the algorithm to provide better summaries of automatic scanning results."
"There's very little documentation that comes with OWASP Zap."
"There isn't too much information about it online."
"There are too many false positives."
"The product reporting could be improved."
"The product should allow users to customize the report based on their needs."
"The documentation needs to be improved because I had to learn everything from watching YouTube videos."
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NowSecure is ranked 33rd in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) while OWASP Zap is ranked 8th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 37 reviews. NowSecure is rated 7.0, while OWASP Zap is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of NowSecure writes "Scalable and reliable, but dynamic analysis needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OWASP Zap writes "Great for automating and testing and has tightened our security ". NowSecure is most compared with Veracode, Data Theorem API Secure , Acunetix, Checkmarx One and GitLab, whereas OWASP Zap is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, Qualys Web Application Scanning, Veracode and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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