PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and GitGuardian Platform compete in the cybersecurity domain, with Burp Suite gaining the upper hand in penetration testing, while GitGuardian excels in secrets management.
Features: Burp Suite Professional offers standout features like Intruder for customized payloads, Repeater for request manipulation, and Extender for installing additional modules, all supporting robust vulnerability detection. GitGuardian Platform provides real-time detection of sensitive information in code repositories, a proactive alert system, and "Dev in the loop" tools for effective secrets management.
Room for Improvement: Burp Suite users desire better API scanning, false-positive reduction, and enhanced user interface. GitGuardian users seek improvements in interface customization and integration with common developer tools, alongside more streamlined incident management.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Burp Suite is flexible with deployments across On-premises, Private, and Hybrid Clouds, supported by excellent documentation and technical support. GitGuardian also excels in deployments on On-premises and Public Clouds with strong customer service and documentation.
Pricing and ROI: Burp Suite Professional offers competitive pricing at $400-$500 annually per user, emphasizing cost-effectiveness and ROI, especially for penetration testing needs. GitGuardian, while slightly more expensive, justifies its price with its crucial role in secrets assurance, providing excellent ROI for its detection capabilities.
I can certainly say that we have saved significant time and resources in terms of people and automation.
The majority of our incidents for critical detectors and important secret types are remediated automatically or proactively by developers through GitGuardian's notification system, without security team involvement.
It effectively helps us with credentials security and has been performing satisfactorily.
I would rate their technical support a nine out of ten.
I would rate the technical support as excellent.
The technical support from PortSwigger is excellent.
The technical support for PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is pretty good, and I would give it a nine.
In terms of scalability, I would rate it around a ten out of ten, as it handles all the repositories and commit activity we have.
I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
Currently, what GitGuardian Platform is doing works effectively.
We set up a lot of the repository, so GitGuardian is a required check.
The SaaS platform has experienced two significant moments of downtime or instability in the last six months, requiring notices and retrospectives.
I would rate the stability of the GitGuardian Platform as excellent with no downtimes.
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is very stable.
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is a very stable tool, and I would rate its stability as eight out of ten.
Another thing that would be good to see is some more metrics on the usage of the GitGuardian pre-push hooks.
The self-healing activity by developers isn't reflected in the analytics, requiring us to collect this data ourselves.
We are looking for better metrics and audit data, wanting more features such as knowing which users are creating the most secrets or committing the most secrets, what repository, what directory, and who is not checking in secrets.
Some AI features might be added.
The dashboard of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional could be made more user-friendly.
Overall, the secret detection sector is expensive, but we are happy with the value we get.
It's fairly priced, as it performs a lot of analysis and is a valuable tool.
The pricing for PortSwigger is very cheap, and there are benefits in terms of time and cost savings.
I find the price of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional to be very cost-efficient.
One of the best features of the solution is the ability to use pre-push hooks.
A high number of our exposures are remediated by developers before security needs to step in, as the self-healing playbook process engages them automatically.
GitGuardian Platform performs the capability to detect secrets in real time exceptionally, as it activates from the commit and can detect it immediately.
The most valuable feature of Burp Suite Professional is its ability to schedule tasks for scanning websites.
I especially value the features for penetration testing.
The most valuable features of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional are its ease of use and its cost efficiency.
GitGuardian is an advanced secrets security platform that strengthens Non-Human Identity security and ensures compliance with industry standards by detecting and managing secrets in development environments.
GitGuardian integrates Secrets Security and Secrets Observability, facilitating the detection of compromised secrets and managing legitimate secrets' lifecycle. Supporting over 450 types of secrets, the platform offers public monitoring for leaked data and employs honeytokens as an added defense. Trusted by over 600,000 developers, organizations such as Snowflake and ING rely on GitGuardian for robust secrets protection.
What features define GitGuardian?In sectors like healthcare and telecommunications, GitGuardian is implemented for detecting and managing the exposure of sensitive information in code repositories. Teams benefit from its ability to integrate with platforms such as GitHub, allowing for immediate alerts and efficient remediation of security risks, enhancing application security by safeguarding operational environments.
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.
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