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

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Pros
"The most valuable feature is the ability to download an application without actually putting in the APK. It gives us an option to put the APK in if we want to but we can download it from the App Store and Play Store."

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"You can scan any number of applications and it updates its database.""The most valuable feature is the application security. It also has a reasonable price.""PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is one of the best user-friendly solutions for getting the proxy set up.""The initial setup is simple.""It offers very good accuracy. You can trust the results.""The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the Burp Intruder tool.""It's good testing software.""The most valuable feature is Burp Collaborator."

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Cons
"In this solution, there are two kinds of testing, static analysis, and dynamic analysis. There needs some improvement in testing with dynamic analysis because I have found it is not accurate"

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"The reporting needs to be improved; it is very bad.""The initial setup is a bit complex.""I would like to see a more optimized solution, as it currently uses a lot of CPU power and memory.""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.""There is not much automation in the tool.""The price could be better. The rest is fine.""Scanning APIs using PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional takes a lot of time.""The solution’s pricing could be improved."

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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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    Overview

    NowSecure experts have conducted advanced pen testing for some of the world's most demanding organizations - including banks, insurance companies, government agencies, healthcare organizations, retail conglomerates, high-tech businesses, and more. Mobile apps are prone to sensitive data leakages and attacks, yet a manual test for just one app can take several weeks. To enable faster, more frequent testing, we built a test engine that successfully automates repeatable and time-consuming mobile appsec testing, remediation and reporting tasks. The result - the foundation of the NowSecure platform, which significantly reduces testing time and costs without compromising full depth of security coverage.

    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.

    Sample Customers
    Vaporstream, FIS, MEA Financial, Silent Circle, Capital One, Citi, EY, EMC, Emerson, Kaiser Permanente, The Home Depot, Humana, Shell, Kellogg's, TD Bank, VMware
    Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Insurance Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Manufacturing Company22%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Government9%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    NowSecure is ranked 32nd in Application Security Testing (AST) while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 5th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 55 reviews. NowSecure is rated 7.0, while PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NowSecure writes "Scalable and reliable, but dynamic analysis needs improvement". 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". NowSecure is most compared with Veracode, Data Theorem API Secure , GitLab, Acunetix and Checkmarx One, whereas PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning.

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