We performed a comparison between OWASP Zap and Rapid7 InsightAppSec 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."The most valuable feature is scanning the URL to drill down all the different sites."
"The community edition updates services regularly. They add new vulnerabilities into the scanning list."
"The vulnerabilities that it finds, because the primary goal is to secure applications and websites."
"The API is exceptional."
"The HUD is a good feature that provides on-site testing and saves a lot of time."
"It's great that we can use it with Portswigger Burp."
"The ZAP scan and code crawler are valuable features."
"The solution has tightened our security."
"It uses a signature-based method to check for problems with your code and will provide an alert if anything is found."
"The product’s most valuable feature is UI. It is easy to manage and find vulnerabilities in the application."
"The initial setup for us was easy enough. We didn't face too many issues. Deployment took maybe 30 minutes. It's quite quick and doesn't cause too much trouble at the outset."
"It's very easy to use and user-friendly. It does the job."
"The solution is stable."
"In Rapid7 InsightAppSec, a distinctive feature is the provision of a CDM for integrating web servers and web applications. To establish the connection between these applications, you only need to paste the provided CDN into your metadata. Once connected, every piece of information, including vulnerabilities, can be accessed. It also offers demo sessions."
"It is very convenient to get reports from the tool, which offers high-level environmental statistics."
"It is a very robust solution."
"As security evolves, we would like DevOps built into it. As of now, Zap does not provide this."
"It would be ideal if I could try some pre-built deployment scenarios so that I don't have to worry about whether the configuration sector team is doing it right or wrong. That would be very helpful."
"They stopped their support for a short period. They've recently started to come back again. In the early days, support was much better."
"It would be a great improvement if they could include a marketplace to add extra features to the tool."
"There isn't too much information about it online."
"Online documentation can be improved to utilize all features of ZAP and API methods to make use in automation."
"The solution is somewhat unreliable because after we get the finding, we have to manually verify each of its findings to see whether it's a false positive or a true finding, and it takes time."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the algorithm to provide better summaries of automatic scanning results."
"The product’s pricing could be flexible."
"I would like more details of what the product can do."
"Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement in detecting phishing pages."
"We'd like to see integrations with WAF solutions."
"The interface should be a little bit easier to manage. Sometimes, the logic that they use is kind of strange. They need to work a little bit more on their interface to make it more understandable. The interface is the only problem. I'm using Rapid7, which is very intuitive. There are other applications available in the market with a better interface. They can include more techniques or options to test different types of security because the templates are limited. It would be great to see them follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework or what is there in tools like Veracode and Synopsys."
"In the future, if they can have integration with a lot of ticketing systems then it would be amazing."
"We get a lot of false positives during the tests."
"When you add new projects for the same product, it either duplicates or replaces the scan configuration. If I run a scan for the same product with a different scan configuration, it should keep the previous scan configuration and not replace it with the new scan configuration. It should just add the new scan configuration. That would be helpful. They do keep the results as it is, but the scan configuration keeps changing. For example, I have set a scan configuration to a full scan, and next week, I want to run a new scan for the same product with some changes or new functionalities. I want to run a partial scan. Currently, if I change the scan configuration to partial, it changes the old one also to partial. That should be improved."
OWASP Zap is ranked 8th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 37 reviews while Rapid7 InsightAppSec is ranked 3rd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 12 reviews. OWASP Zap is rated 7.6, while Rapid7 InsightAppSec is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OWASP Zap writes "Great for automating and testing and has tightened our security ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightAppSec writes "A highly scalable and robust product that enables users to automate scans". OWASP Zap is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Qualys Web Application Scanning and Rapid7 AppSpider, whereas Rapid7 InsightAppSec is most compared with Rapid7 AppSpider, Fortify WebInspect, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Acunetix and Veracode. See our OWASP Zap vs. Rapid7 InsightAppSec report.
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