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  • "The base licensing costs for the SaaS platform is about $900 USD per application, per year."
  • "The price of this solution could be less expensive."
  • "The licensing is very complex, it's project based and can range from $10,000 to $200,000+ depending on the project type and size."
  • "Fortify Application Defender is very expensive."
  • "The product’s price is much higher than other tools."
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    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable feature is software composition analysis. This feature works well with my .NET applications, providing a better understanding of library vulnerabilities.
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    HPE Fortify Application Defender, Micro Focus Fortify Application Defender
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    Overview

    Micro Focus Security Fortify Application Defender is a runtime application self-protection (RASP) solution that helps you manage and mitigate risk from homegrown or third-party applications. It provides centralized visibility into application use and abuse while protecting from software vulnerability exploits and other violations in real time.

    w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project's goal is to create a framework to help you secure your web applications by finding and exploiting all web application vulnerabilities. Our framework is proudly developed using Python to be easy to use and extend, and licensed under GPLv2.0.
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Logistics Company14%
    Energy/Utilities Company14%
    Comms Service Provider14%
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company12%
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    Media Company11%
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    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Large Enterprise63%
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    Fortify Application Defender is ranked 34th in Application Security Tools with 10 reviews while w3af is ranked 41st in Application Security Tools. Fortify Application Defender is rated 8.0, while w3af is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortify Application Defender writes "Reliable solution with excellent machine learning algorithms but expensive and lacking support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of w3af writes "It's buggy and seems to try to do too many things, but having this on a USB drive has been valuable". Fortify Application Defender is most compared with Checkmarx One, Coverity, CAST Application Intelligence Platform, SonarQube and Qualys Web Application Scanning, whereas w3af is most compared with Acunetix.

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