OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing vs Rapid7 InsightAppSec comparison

OpenText and Rapid7 are both solutions in the Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) category. OpenText is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while Rapid7 is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.7. OpenText holds a 11.3% mindshare in DAST, compared to Rapid7’s 5.1% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing and Rapid7 InsightAppSec are products in the application security testing category. Rapid7 InsightAppSec is considered superior due to its strong features and perceived value despite OpenText's advantage in pricing and support.

Features: OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing provides comprehensive vulnerability analysis, customizable scanning modules, and deep application layer focus. Rapid7 InsightAppSec offers an intuitive dashboard, automated scanning capabilities, and integration with development tools.

Room for Improvement: OpenText could improve with simpler setup processes, enhanced user interface, and more seamless integration with development environments. Rapid7 InsightAppSec could refine its user interface for exporting files, reduce false positives, and improve its browser compatibility for exporting reports.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Rapid7 InsightAppSec offers a cloud-based model facilitating quick setup and a flexible support structure. OpenText, while effective, presents a more complex deployment process but excels in responsive customer support.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing offers competitive pricing with a good ROI, appealing to cost-conscious organizations. Rapid7 InsightAppSec, with higher upfront costs, justifies its price through extensive features and integrations, promising potential long-term ROI benefits.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Dynamic Applicatio...

Ranking in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

4th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

DevSecOps (9th)

Rapid7 InsightAppSec

Ranking in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) category, the mindshare of OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing is 11.3%, up from 9.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightAppSec is 5.1%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing	11.3%
Rapid7 InsightAppSec	5.1%
Other	83.6%

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Featured Reviews

ArnabPaul

Cyber Security Consultant at Deloitte

Enhancements in manual testing align with reporting and integration features

WebInspect works efficiently with Java-based or .NET based applications. However, it struggles with Salesforce applications, where it requires approximately 20-24 hours to crawl and audit but produces minimal findings, necessitating manual verification. The solution offers customization features for crawling and vulnerability detection. It includes various security frameworks and allows selection of specific vulnerability types to audit, such as OWASP Top 10 or JavaScript-based vulnerabilities. When working with APIs, we can select OWASP API Top 10. The tool also supports custom audit features by combining different security frameworks. For on-premises deployment, the setup is complex, particularly regarding SQL server configuration. Unlike Burp Suite or OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing, which have simpler setup processes, WebInspect requires SQL server setup to function.

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Shritam Bhowmick

Vulnerability Management Lead at garrett

Provides reliable applications security but needs better integration options

There are areas for improvements regarding false positives. Integration capabilities are lacking, as options for integrations with other tools such as SNOW, Jira, or other integration tools are not sufficient in Rapid7 InsightAppSec. The user interface sometimes has glitches, which may prevent appropriate results during navigation, and even when we get appropriate results, it can be impossible to export them to CSV records or download files. Regarding scalability, Rapid7 InsightAppSec is not a scalable solution for our industry due to limited integration capabilities. Rapid7 relies on another tool called InsightConnect, which requires additional investment, detracting from scalability. Another area that needs improvement is the integration of AI capabilities into the platform. Both Rapid7 InsightAppSec and InsightVM need to advance in that area. In terms of behavioral and pattern recognition, identifying complex attacks such as SQL, blind SQL, JSON, and LDAP injections often results in 94% false positives. This necessitates improvement in their behavioral-based analytics feature.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Fortify WebInspect is a scalable solution, it is good for a lot of applications."

"Good at scanning and finding vulnerabilities."

"Technical support has been good."

"The user interface is ok and it is very simple to use."

"The feature that has been most influential in identifying vulnerabilities is its ability to crawl the website, understand the structure, and analyze the network packets sent and received."

"The transaction recorder within WebInspect is easy to use, which is valuable for our team."

"The solution's technical support was very helpful."

"The solution is easy to use."

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"Relatively speaking, InsightAppSec is good compared to Insight VM."

"The initial setup for us was easy enough. We didn't face too many issues. Deployment took maybe 30 minutes. It's quite quick and doesn't cause too much trouble at the outset."

"Dynamic application security scanning provides predefined templates and supports customization. The ability to scan external and internal applications, including on-premises ones, is precious. Additionally, it is a cloud platform, so we don't need to deploy servers or resources. This makes it time-efficient and cost-effective."

"It's very easy to use and user-friendly. It does the job."

"I would rate the technical support from Rapid7 a ten, indicating high-quality support."

"The reporting functionality is excellent."

"The templates feature is very easy. You just choose the kind of attack you want on your web application, and you run it against that template and receive a report. It's great."

"The solution is stable."

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Cons

"Not sufficiently compatible with some of our systems."

"We have had a problem with authentification."

"I would like WebInspect's scanning capability to be quicker."

"It took us between eight and ten hours to scan an entire site, which is somewhat slow and something that I think can be improved."

"The installation could be a bit easier. Usually it's simple to use, but the installation is painful and a bit laborious and complex."

"It requires improvement in terms of scanning. The application scan heavily utilizes the resources of an on-premise server. 32 GB RAM is very high for an enterprise web application."

"I want to enhance automation. Currently, Fortify WebInspect can scan and find vulnerabilities, but users with specific skills need to interpret the results and understand how to address them."

"The solution needs better integration with Microsoft's Azure Cloud or an extension of Azure DevOps. In fact, it should better integrate with any cloud provider. Right now, it's quite difficult to integrate with that solution, from the cloud perspective."

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"When you add new projects for the same product, it either duplicates or replaces the scan configuration. If I run a scan for the same product with a different scan configuration, it should keep the previous scan configuration and not replace it with the new scan configuration. It should just add the new scan configuration. That would be helpful. They do keep the results as it is, but the scan configuration keeps changing. For example, I have set a scan configuration to a full scan, and next week, I want to run a new scan for the same product with some changes or new functionalities. I want to run a partial scan. Currently, if I change the scan configuration to partial, it changes the old one also to partial. That should be improved."

"Currently, InsightAppSec lacks similar functionality. Customers must wait for remediation during the developers' preparation of a new version."

"In terms of behavioral and pattern recognition, identifying complex attacks such as SQL, blind SQL, JSON, and LDAP injections often results in 94% false positives."

"There is room for improvement in Rapid7 InsightAppSec by giving clients the ability for extra columns on reports and enabling the extraction of remediation reports into a CSV format. Currently, the PDF format is cumbersome to go through when dealing with thousands of pages."

"The reporting feature of Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement as it currently provides basic reports."

"The product’s pricing could be flexible."

"In the future, if they can have integration with a lot of ticketing systems then it would be amazing."

"I would like more details of what the product can do."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is okay."

"Our licensing is such that you can only run one scan at a time, which is inconvenient."

"This solution is very expensive."

"It’s a fair price for the solution."

"Fortify WebInspect is a very expensive product."

"The pricing is not clear and while it is not high, it is difficult to understand."

"Its price is almost similar to the price of AppScan. Both of them are very costly. Its price could be reduced because it can be very costly for unlimited IT scans, etc. I'm not sure, but it can go up to $40,000 to $50,000 or more than that."

"I rate Rapid7 InsightAppSec’s pricing an eight out of ten."

"I'm not sure how much it costs exactly, but I know it's expensive."

"Its price is competitive. It is not expensive."

"Rapid7 InsightAppSec is cheap."

"The price of this product is very cheap."

"They offer a good price, but I don't remember its cost. It is fair as compared to the competition. We have opted for project-based licensing, not user-based. We can add any number of users. That doesn't matter. It is worth the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortify WebInspect?

While I am not directly involved with licensing, I can share that our project's license for 1-9 applications costs between $15,000 to $19,000. In comparison, Burp Suite costs approximately $500 to ...

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What needs improvement with Fortify WebInspect?

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What is your primary use case for Fortify WebInspect?

I am currently working with several tools. For Fortify, I use SCA and WebInspect. Apart from that, I use Burp Suite from PortSwigger. For API testing, I use Postman with Burp Suite or WebInspect fo...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightAppSec?

In Rapid7 InsightAppSec, a distinctive feature is the provision of a CDM for integrating web servers and web applications. To establish the connection between these applications, you only need to p...

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What needs improvement with Rapid7 InsightAppSec?

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What is your primary use case for Rapid7 InsightAppSec?

Our main use case for Rapid7 InsightAppSec is to perform internal assessment of applications and external facing applications. We have a cloud engine plus on-premises engine, and we have been lever...

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Also Known As

Micro Focus WebInspect, WebInspect

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Overview

OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing offers robust scalability, ease of use, and high accuracy in scanning, making it a valuable tool for enterprises.

This security testing platform is known for its centralized dashboard, guided scans, and comprehensive reporting. It integrates seamlessly with tools like Fortify code scanner and supports extensive vulnerability detection and analysis, enhancing efficiency in security management. Despite its strengths, users suggest improvements in cloud integration, cost-effectiveness, and installation processes. Faster scans, reduced false positives, and improved mobile testing features are also desired.

What are the key features of OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing?

Scalability: Easily adapts to changing enterprise needs.
Ease of Use: User-friendly interface with guided scans.
Comprehensive Reporting: Detailed vulnerability analysis and reporting.
Integration Capabilities: Works with Fortify code scanner and user authentication scanning.
Wide Vulnerability Detection: Identifies extensive security vulnerabilities.

What benefits should users expect from reviews?

Efficient Vulnerability Management: Streamlines security management in development environments.
Detailed Analysis: Provides in-depth insights into security issues.
Quick Setup: Easy to deploy within existing systems.
Enterprise Preference: Supports enterprise environments efficiently.

In industries like BFSI, OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing is employed for performance network application testing, dynamic and static application security testing, and code checks. Security and QA teams use it in development processes to ensure application security prior to release, proving integral in both enterprise and testing environments.

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Your web applications may be complex, but your application security testing tool doesn’t need to be. InsightAppSec brings Rapid7’s proven Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) technology to the Insight platform, combining powerful application crawling and attack capabilities, flexibility in scan scope and scheduling, and accuracy in results with a modern UI, intuitive workflows, and sensible data organization. This enables you to identify XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, and other vulnerabilities with unparalleled ease. The best part? All of these capabilities are delivered via the cloud so that you’re up and running in minutes to identify the critical security risks that exist in your applications.

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CenterPoint Energy, CPA Australia, Hypertherm, First American Financial Corporation, Rackspace

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