We performed a comparison between PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about PortSwigger, GitLab, OWASP and others in Fuzz Testing Tools."The solution has a pretty simple setup."
"The tool provides complimentary services. It allows you to add a lot of extensions, and you can get extensions quite often. It is quite a flexible application."
"I am impressed with the tool's detailed analysis for penetration testing. AppScan can give only visibility, but it can't do the PT part. But the PortSwigger Burp Application can do both, and it gives much more visibility on the PT rating."
"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."
"BurpSuite helps us to identify and fix silly mistakes that are sometimes introduced by our developers in their coding."
"We use the solution for vulnerability assessment in respect of the application and the sites."
"The initial setup is simple."
"I have found this solution has more plugins than other competitors which is a benefit. You are able to attach different plugins to the security scan to add features. For example, you can check to see if there are any payment systems that exist on a server, or username and password brute force analysis."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"In the Professional version, we cannot link it with the CI/CD process."
"The solution lacks sufficient stability."
"The price could be better. The rest is fine."
"It would be good if the solution could give us more details about what exactly is defective."
"I would like to see a more optimized solution, as it currently uses a lot of CPU power and memory."
"There needs to be better documentation provided. Currently, we need to buy books, or we need to review online some use cases from other professionals who have been using the solution to find out their experience. It is not easy to find out how to properly do a security assessment."
"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."
"There should be a heads up display like the one available in OWASP Zap."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
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PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 1st in Fuzz Testing Tools with 57 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Synopsys Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and Checkmarx One.
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