We performed a comparison between PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Fuzz Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is Burp Collaborator."
"The solution has a limited range of functions, which is good for small companies. This is because, in small companies, websites are less complex. They also have single services which makes the solution good enough for them. However, the most advantageous aspect of the solution is its affordable price."
"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."
"You can scan any number of applications and it updates its database."
"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."
"With the Extender Tab, if you know how to code then you can create a plugin and add it to Burp."
"I find the attack model quite amazing, where I can write my scripts and load my scripts as well, which helps quite a bit. All the active scanning that it can do is also quite a lot helpful. It speeds up our vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. Right now, I am enjoying its in-browser, which also helps quite a bit. I'm always confused about setting up some proxy, but it really is the big solution we all want."
"We use the solution for vulnerability assessment in respect of the application and the sites."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"It would be good if the solution could give us more details about what exactly is defective."
"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."
"If we're running a huge number of scans regularly, it slows down the tool."
"The biggest drawback is reporting. It's not so good. I can download them, but they're not so informative."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional can improve by having more features in the free version for beginners to try."
"If your application uses multi-factor authentication, registration management cannot be automated."
"The technical support team's response time is mostly delayed and should be improved."
"We wish that the Spider feature would appear in the same shape that it does in previous versions."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
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PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is ranked 1st in Fuzz Testing Tools with 57 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is rated 8.6, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Synopsys Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is most compared with OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, Acunetix, HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with Snyk, SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and Checkmarx One. See our PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs. Synopsys Defensics report.
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