We performed a comparison between Ixia BreakingPoint and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Testing (AST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use Ixia BreakingPoint for Layer 7 traffic generation. That's what we like."
"I like that we can test cloud applications."
"The DDoS testing module is useful and quick to use."
"It is a scalable solution."
"There is a virtual version of the product which is scaled to 100s of virtual testing blades."
"The most valuable feature of Ixia BreakingPoint is the ransomware and malware database for simulated attacks."
"The solution has many protocols and options, making it very flexible."
"You can download different plugins if you don't have them in the standard edition."
"I am impressed with the tool's detailed analysis for penetration testing. AppScan can give only visibility, but it can't do the PT part. But the PortSwigger Burp Application can do both, and it gives much more visibility on the PT rating."
"The reporting part is the most valuable. It also has very good features. We use almost all of the features for different kinds of customers and needs."
"I have found this solution has more plugins than other competitors which is a benefit. You are able to attach different plugins to the security scan to add features. For example, you can check to see if there are any payment systems that exist on a server, or username and password brute force analysis."
"I have found the best features to be the performance and there are a lot of additional plugins available."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the Burp Intruder tool."
"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."
"The production traffic simulations are not realistic enough for some types of DDoS attacks."
"The quality of the traffic generation could be improved with Ixia BreakingPoint, i.e. to get closer to being accurate in what a real user will do."
"The price could be better."
"They should improve UI mode packages for the users."
"I would appreciate some preconfigured network neighborhoods, which are predefined settings for testing networks."
"The integration could improve in Ixia BreakingPoint."
"The solution originally was hard to configure; I'm not sure if they've updated this to make it simpler, but if not, it's something that could be streamlined."
"Scanning APIs using PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional takes a lot of time."
"It should provide a better way to integrate with Jenkins so that DAST (dynamic application security testing) can be automated."
"As with most automated security tools, too many false positives."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"You can have many false positives in Burp Suite. It depends on the scale of the penetration testing."
"The price could be better. The rest is fine."
"We wish that the Spider feature would appear in the same shape that it does in previous versions."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional can improve by having more features in the free version for beginners to try."
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Ixia BreakingPoint is ranked 23rd in Application Security Testing (AST) with 8 reviews while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 5th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 55 reviews. Ixia BreakingPoint is rated 8.4, while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Ixia BreakingPoint writes "Works better for testing traffic, mix profile, and enrollment scenarios than other solutions". 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". Ixia BreakingPoint is most compared with Spirent CyberFlood and Synopsys Defensics, whereas PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning. See our Ixia BreakingPoint vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional report.
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