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"You can easily download the tool's rule packs and update them.""This is a stable solution at the end of the day.""The reporting is very useful because you can always view an entire list of the issues that you have."

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"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs.""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.""We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."

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"Fortify Software Security Center's setup is really painful.""This solution is difficult to implement, and it should be made more comfortable for the end-users.""We are having issues with false positives that need to be resolved."

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"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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  • "This is a costly solution that could be cheaper."
  • "The solution is priced fair."
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    Also Known As
    Micro Focus Software Security Center, Application Security Center, HPE Application Security Center, WebInspect
    Defensics, Codenomicon Defensics
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    Overview
    Software Security Center enables management, development, and security teams to work together to triage, track, validate, automate, and manage software security activities.

    Defensics® fuzz testing is a comprehensive, powerful, and automated black box solution that enables organizations to effectively and efficiently discover and remediate security weaknesses in software. By taking a systematic and intelligent approach to negative testing, Defensics allows organizations to ensure software security without compromising on product innovation, increasing time to market, or inflating operational costs.

    Sample Customers
    Neosecure, Acxiom, Skandinavisk Data Center A/S, Parkeon
    Coriant, CERT-FI, Next Generation Networks
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    University6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Fortify Software Security Center is ranked 27th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 3 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. Fortify Software Security Center is rated 7.4, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortify Software Security Center writes "A fair-priced solution that helps with application security testing ". 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". Fortify Software Security Center is most compared with Fortify on Demand, Tricentis Tosca, Fortify WebInspect and Checkmarx One, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and HCL AppScan.

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