There are different products in the market for DAST like Micro Focus, IBM AppScan, Acunetix, and Burp Suite. All these products have their pros and cons. Netsparker is really good, and it has a vast variety for security checks, plugins, that could be used for finding vulnerabilities.

I tried some different tools. Some of them were full versions whereas others were demo versions like Netsparker.

We did try the commercial ones, but since OWASP is known as an authority in web application security, we opted for this software.

I did not evaluate other options.

We tried Acunetix, but Netsparker has one up on it.

We do use other different products to confirm our results namely Burp Suite, Nessus, Qualys Inc. etc. Each product is used for the different stages of testing.

My office gave me the trial license and told me to try out these products. That’s it. Just compared it to other similar tools such as NeXpose and Acunetix.

No, I haven't.

No i did not evaluate other options.

I also use Micro Focus Fortify. The difference is mainly in the UI. I haven't really got into the comparison between the output of the scans, but I was really impressed by the UI and the ease of use of Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner.

We evaluated Nessus and Acunetix.