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We performed a comparison between Fortify WebInspect and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Fortify WebInspect vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional Report (Updated: May 2022).
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"When we are integrating it with SSC, we're able to scan and trace and see all of the vulnerabilities. Comparison is easy in SSC.""Guided Scan option allows us to easily scan and share reports.""I've found the centralized dashboard the most valuable. For the management, it helps a lot to have abilities at the central level.""The solution is able to detect a wide range of vulnerabilities. It's better at it than other products.""Fortify WebInspect is a scalable solution, it is good for a lot of applications.""There are lots of small settings and tools, like an HTTP editor, that are very useful.""It's a well-known platform for doing dynamic application scanning.""Technical support has been good."

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"I personally love its capability to automatically and accurately detect vulnerabilities. So, I would say it is the Burp scanner that is THE most powerful, valuable, and an awesome feature.""Enables automation of different tasks such as authorization testing."""The product is very good just the way it is; It has everything already well established and functions great. I can't see any way for this current version to be improved."""There is no other tool like it. I like the intuitiveness and the plugins that are available.""For pentesting scenarios, this is the number one tool. It can capture the request, and there are so many functions that are very good for that. For example, a black box satellite host.""Some of the extensions, available using Burp Extender, are also very good and we have found issues by using them.""The active scanner, which does an automated search of any web vulnerabilities.""The most valuable features are Burp Intruder and Burp Scanner."

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Cons
"Lately, we've seen more false negatives.""We have had a problem with authentification.""One thing I would like to see them introduce is a cloud-based platform.""We have often encountered scanning errors.""It took us between eight and ten hours to scan an entire site, which is somewhat slow and something that I think can be improved.""I'm not sure licensing, but on the pricing, it's a bit costly. It's a bit overpriced. Though it is an enterprise tool, there are other tools also with similar functionalities.""Our biggest complaint about this product is that it freezes up, and literally doesn't work for us.""The initial setup was complex."

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"I would like to see a more optimized solution, as it currently uses a lot of CPU power and memory.""It should provide a better way to integrate with Jenkins so that DAST (dynamic application security testing) can be automated.""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.""The number of false positives need to be reduced on the solution.""The reporting needs to be improved; it is very bad.""The initial setup is a bit complex.""It would be good if the solution could give us more details about what exactly is defective.""The solution lacks sufficient stability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It’s a fair price for the solution."
  • "The pricing is not clear and while it is not high, it is difficult to understand."
  • "Our licensing is such that you can only run one scan at a time, which is inconvenient."
  • "Its price is almost similar to the price of AppScan. Both of them are very costly. Its price could be reduced because it can be very costly for unlimited IT scans, etc. I'm not sure, but it can go up to $40,000 to $50,000 or more than that."
  • "The price is okay."
  • "This solution is very expensive."
  • "Fortify WebInspect is a very expensive product."
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  • "This is a value for money product."
  • "The cost is approximately $500 for a single license, and there are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
  • "Our licensing cost is approximately $400 USD per year."
  • "The yearly cost is about $300."
  • "There is no setup cost and the cost of licensing is affordable."
  • "Licensing costs are about $450/year for one use. For larger organizations, they're able to test against multiple applications while simultaneously others might have multiple versions of applications which needs to be tested which is why we have the enterprise edition."
  • "There are different licenses available that include a free version."
  • "At $400 or $500 per license paid annually, it is a very cheap tool."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's technical support was very helpful.
    Top Answer:Fortify WebInspect's shortcoming stems from the fact that it is a very expensive product in Korea, which makes it difficult for its potential customers to introduce the product in their IT… more »
    Top Answer:OWASP Zap and PortSwigger Burp Suite Pro have many similar features. OWASP Zap has web application scanning available with basic security vulnerabilities while Burp Suite Pro has it available with… more »
    Top Answer:You can download different plugins if you don't have them in the standard edition.
    Top Answer:We pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution, which is neither cheap nor expensive.
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    Also Known As
    Micro Focus WebInspect, WebInspect
    Burp
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    Overview

    Fortify WebInspect is an automated DAST solution that helps security professionals and QA testers uncover security vulnerabilities and configuration concerns by providing complete vulnerability detection. This is accomplished by mimicking real-world external security attacks on a live application in order to discover and prioritize concerns for root-cause study. Fortify WebInspect provides a number of REST APIs for easier integration, as well as the ability to be maintained via an intuitive UI or totally automated.

    Fortify WebInspect may be used as a completely automated solution to suit DevOps and scaling requirements, and it integrates seamlessly with the SDLC. REST APIs aid in closer integration by automating scans and ensuring that compliance standards are satisfied. Users can make use of pre-built integrations for Micro Focus Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Quality Center, as well as other security testing and management platforms.

    Teams may reuse current scripts and tools thanks to powerful connectors. Any Selenium script can be simply integrated with Fortify WebInspect. Fortify WebInspect supports Swagger and OData formats via the WISwag command line tool, allowing it to work with any DevOps workflow. A scan template can be pre-configured by ScanCentral Admin and sent to users to scan their apps, with zero security knowledge required.

    Fortify WebInspect Features

    Fortify WebInspect has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Security testing of functional applications (FAST): FAST can use all of the functional tests in the same way as IAST does, but it will continue crawling. FAST will not miss anything that a functional test misses.
    • Insights from a hacker's perspective: View discoveries such as client-side frameworks and version number. These are findings that, if not addressed, could lead to vulnerabilities.
    • Workflow macros HAR files: Fortify WebInspect can scan workflows with HAR files, ensuring that crucial content is not missed.
    • Management of compliance: Preconfigured policies and reports for all key online application security compliance regulations, such as PCI DSS, DISA STIG, NIST 800-53, ISO 27K, OWASP, and HIPAA.
    • Horizontal scaling can help you speed up your work: Using Kubernetes, horizontal scaling creates little versions of WebInspect that only process JavaScript. This allows the scans to run in parallel, resulting in significantly faster scans.
    • Scan any API for better accuracy: Get the complete picture on APIs, including SOAP, Rest, Swagger, OpenAPI, and Postman.
    • Managing the security of enterprise applications: To meet DevOps requirements, monitor trends within an application and take action on the most critical issues first.
    • Deployment options: With the flexibility of on-premise, SaaS, or AppSec-as-a-service, you can get started immediately and scale as needed.

    Fortify WebInspect Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Fortify WebInspect. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Vulnerabilities are discovered faster and earlier.
    • Automation and agent technology can help you save time.
    • Users can utilize crawl web technologies and modern frameworks.
    • ScanCentral DAST helps you manage enterprise app security risk.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Fortify WebInspect stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. One major one is its robust centralized dashboard, which gives insight into all vulnerabilities.

    Milin S., an Information Security Architect at a real estate/law firm, writes of the product, “Reporting, centralized dashboard, and bird's eye view of all vulnerabilities are the most valuable features. The vulnerability management part of it is very easy. We can suppress or comment on each vulnerability and assign a vulnerability to an individual risk owner, which makes the work easy.”

    Burp Suite Professional, by PortSwigger, is the world’s leading toolkit for web security testing. Over 52,000 users worldwide, across all industries and organization sizes, trust Burp Suite Professional to find more vulnerabilities, faster. With expertly-engineered manual and automated tooling, you're able to test smarter - not harder.

    PortSwigger is the web security company that is enabling the world to secure the web. Over 50,000 security engineers rely on our software and expertise to secure their world.

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    Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce
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    Real Estate/Law Firm20%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Manufacturing Company20%
    Computer Software Company10%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government14%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Manufacturing Company22%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Comms Service Provider13%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Government9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise64%
    Buyer's Guide
    Fortify WebInspect vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional
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    Fortify WebInspect is ranked 2nd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 17 reviews while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 12th in Application Security Tools with 54 reviews. Fortify WebInspect is rated 7.0, while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortify WebInspect writes "A powerful tool catering to multiple use cases that provides reasonably good technical support". 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". Fortify WebInspect is most compared with Fortify on Demand, OWASP Zap, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning, whereas PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Acunetix, HCL AppScan, Qualys Web Application Scanning and SonarQube. See our Fortify WebInspect vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional report.

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