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Defensics Protocol Fuzzing vs SonarQube comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Defensics Protocol Fuzzing
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Fuzz Testing Tools (4th)
SonarQube
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
136
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (1st), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (1st), Software Development Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. Defensics Protocol Fuzzing is designed for Fuzz Testing Tools and holds a mindshare of 16.0%, down 25.3% compared to last year.
SonarQube, on the other hand, focuses on Application Security Tools, holds 13.6% mindshare, down 25.3% since last year.
Fuzz Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Defensics Protocol Fuzzing16.0%
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional33.6%
GitLab29.2%
Other21.200000000000003%
Fuzz Testing Tools
Application Security Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SonarQube13.6%
Checkmarx One8.8%
Snyk5.1%
Other72.5%
Application Security Tools
 

Featured Reviews

SK
Senior Technical Lead at HCL Technologies
Product security tests for switches and router sections
Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install. What I see in the documentation isn't that. Even if something doesn't malfunction, sometimes it is hard to install and execute. The product needs video documentation. This would help a lot more.
KH
Sr Software Engineering Supervisor at Mozarc Medical
Gains control over rule customization and achieves reliable vulnerability assessment
The deployment process took me about 2 or 3 hours to deploy SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube), although I do not remember exactly since it was done about 2 years back. Currently, about 10 of my developers are using SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) in my company. I do not have plans to increase the usage of SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) in the future as there will not be any requirement to increase. I am a senior software engineer and supervisor at Mozark Medical. My corporate email address is karthik.k.a.r.t.h.i.k.h.a.r.p.a.n.h.a.l.l.i@mozarkmedical.com. Overall, I would rate SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) as a 9 out of 10.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"The stability of this product is great; we tested it under multiple constraints and even on cloud services it is absolutely stable."
"ROI was 100%. Since there are no product suites available that provide the level of testing available with Codenomicon, the development, quality and security assurance departments know that the investment was correct."
"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, and 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."
"Simple and straightforward GUI."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the security hotspot feature that identifies where your code is prone to have security issues."
"It is quality software, even if the plugins are often weaker than would be necessary to have a team centralize around it."
"It is the best product we use for easy integration into YAML pipelines for scanning."
"I like the by-default policies that are they, as they seem to cover most of what I need."
"SonarQube has a lot of value, it reviews the basic coding standards and security vulnerabilities of code that help to reduce issues."
"The most valuable features are that it is user-friendly, easy to access, and they provide good training files."
"It automatically scans for code, detects vulnerabilities, and generates daily reports."
"It helps our developers work more efficiently as we can identify things in a code prior to it being pushed to where it needs to go."
 

Cons

"You can't implement proprietary ciphering algorithms, nor can you modify protocol models if you need to test customized public protocols."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"It requires understanding the Defensics protocol."
"SonarQube could improve by adding automatic creation of tasks after scanning and more support for the Czech language."
"We could use some team support, but since we are using the community version, it's not available."
"I would like to see more options for security, beyond the basics like SQL injection."
"However, time and time again, some issues become annoying, since they are actually not issues."
"Predefined rules/overriding rules caused some issues."
"The UI can be improved."
"The reporting can be improved."
"Our developers have complained about the Quality Gates and the number of false positives that this product reports."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing is a bit expensive."
"The development license cost is reasonable, and we've had no concerns about SonarQube when it comes to cost."
"We use the solution free of cost."
"SonarQube is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."
"I requested this license for one million lines of code and they accepted this."
"The current pricing is quite cheap."
"Compared to similar solutions, SonarQube was more accessible to us and had more benefits, with regards to size of the code base and supported languages. Apart from the Enterprise licensing fee, there are no additional costs."
"SonarQube is a cost-effective solution."
"It's an open-source product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Retailer
6%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business43
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise79
 

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Also Known As

Codenomicon Defensics
Sonar, SonarQube Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

Coriant, CERT-FI, Next Generation Networks
Snowflake, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.