We performed a comparison between Fortify WebInspect and Synopsys API Security Testing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HCLTech, OpenText, Rapid7 and others in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)."Technical support has been good."
"Reporting, centralized dashboard, and bird's eye view of all vulnerabilities are the most valuable features."
"I've found the centralized dashboard the most valuable. For the management, it helps a lot to have abilities at the central level."
"Guided Scan option allows us to easily scan and share reports."
"The most valuable feature is the static analysis."
"It is scalable and very easy to use."
"There are lots of small settings and tools, like an HTTP editor, that are very useful."
"The solution is able to detect a wide range of vulnerabilities. It's better at it than other products."
"The most valuable features of Synopsys API Security Testing are the metrics, results, and threat vectors that it shares."
"A localized version, for example, in Korean would be a big improvement to this solution."
"Creating reports is very slow and it is something that should 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."
"Not sufficiently compatible with some of our systems."
"Our biggest complaint about this product is that it freezes up, and literally doesn't work for us."
"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 environment."
"The solution needs better integration with Microsoft's Azure Cloud or an extension of Azure DevOps. In fact, it should better integrate with any cloud provider. Right now, it's quite difficult to integrate with that solution, from the cloud perspective."
"The scanner could be better."
"The solution required us to use our team and we spoke to Synopsys API Security Testing's support to do the implementation. We use two people from our team for the implementation. and one person for maintenance."
Fortify WebInspect is ranked 2nd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 17 reviews while Synopsys API Security Testing is ranked 29th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 1 review. Fortify WebInspect is rated 7.0, while Synopsys API Security Testing is rated 7.0. 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 Synopsys API Security Testing writes "Useful threat vectors, beneficial results, but implementation needed support". Fortify WebInspect is most compared with PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify on Demand, Acunetix, OWASP Zap and GitLab, whereas Synopsys API Security Testing is most compared with Seeker, Acunetix and OWASP Zap.
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