We performed a comparison between OWASP Zap and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."It has evolved over the years and recently in the last year they have added, HUD (Heads Up Display)."
"The scalability of this product is very good."
"The API is exceptional."
"The solution has tightened our security."
"The ZAP scan and code crawler are valuable features."
"They offer free access to some other tools."
"The product helps users to scan and fix vulnerabilities in the pipeline."
"Simple to use, good user interface."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"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."
"Lacks resources where users can internally access a learning module from the tool."
"The technical support team must be proactive."
"It would be a great improvement if they could include a marketplace to add extra features to the tool."
"It doesn't run on absolutely every operating system."
"The reporting feature could be more descriptive."
"OWASP Zap needs to extend to mobile application testing."
"The solution is unable to customize reports."
"Sometimes, we get some false positives."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"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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OWASP Zap is ranked 8th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 37 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. OWASP Zap is rated 7.6, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OWASP Zap writes "Great for automating and testing and has tightened our security ". 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". OWASP Zap is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Qualys Web Application Scanning and Veracode, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and Ixia BreakingPoint.
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