We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect 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 solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"The automated scan is what I find most useful because a lot of customers will need it. Not every domain will be looking for complete security, they just need a stamp on the security key. For these kinds of customers, the scan works really well."
"The Repeater and the BApp extensions are particularly useful. Certain extensions, such as the Active Scan extensions and the Autoracer extension, are very good."
"With the Extender Tab, if you know how to code then you can create a plugin and add it to Burp."
"The intercepting feature is the most valuable."
"You can download different plugins if you don't have them in the standard edition."
"The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the Burp Intruder tool."
"The solution has a great user interface."
"The most valuable feature is the application security. It also has a reasonable price."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"The price could be better. The rest is fine."
"I would like to see a more optimized solution, as it currently uses a lot of CPU power and memory."
"It would be good if the solution could give us more details about what exactly is defective."
"We'd like to have more integration potential across all versions of the product."
"One thing that is not up to the mark in PortSwigger is web application testing. I found some issues with its performance and reporting. They should work on these and give us a better outcome."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional could improve the static code review."
"The number of false positives need to be reduced on the solution."
"The one feature that I would like to see in Burp is active scanning of REST based web services. A lot of organizations are providing APIs to access their services to support different business models like SaaS. Scanning these APIs is still a challenge for many security product companies."
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Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 9th in Application Security Tools with 55 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". 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". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional report.
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