We performed a comparison between NowSecure and OWASP Zap based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."The most valuable feature is the ability to download an application without actually putting in the APK. It gives us an option to put the APK in if we want to but we can download it from the App Store and Play Store."
"The application scanning feature is the most valuable feature."
"The scalability of this product is very good."
"The reporting is quite intuitive, which gives you a clear indication of what kind of vulnerability you have that you can drill down on to gather more information."
"The vulnerabilities that it finds, because the primary goal is to secure applications and websites."
"We use the solution for security testing."
"The solution is good at reporting the vulnerabilities of the application."
"Automatic scanning is a valuable feature and very easy to use."
"It can be used effectively for internal auditing."
"In this solution, there are two kinds of testing, static analysis, and dynamic analysis. There needs some improvement in testing with dynamic analysis because I have found it is not accurate"
"I prefer Burp Suite to SWASP Zap because of the extensive coverage it offers."
"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 needs more robust reporting tools."
"Reporting format has no output, is cluttered and very long."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the algorithm to provide better summaries of automatic scanning results."
"It doesn't run on absolutely every operating system."
"The technical support team must be proactive."
"The automated vulnerability assessments that the application performs needs to be simplified as well as diversified."
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NowSecure is ranked 32nd in Application Security Testing (AST) while OWASP Zap is ranked 8th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 37 reviews. NowSecure is rated 7.0, while OWASP Zap is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of NowSecure writes "Scalable and reliable, but dynamic analysis needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OWASP Zap writes "Great for automating and testing and has tightened our security ". NowSecure is most compared with Veracode, Data Theorem API Secure , GitLab, Acunetix and Checkmarx One, whereas OWASP Zap is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Qualys Web Application Scanning and Veracode.
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