We performed a comparison between OWASP Zap and Synopsys API Security Testing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."It updates repositories and libraries quickly."
"The vulnerabilities that it finds, because the primary goal is to secure applications and websites."
"This solution has improved my organization because it has made us feel safer doing frequent deployments for web applications. If we have something really big, we might get some professional company in to help us but if we're releasing small products, we will check it ourselves with Zap. It makes it easier and safer."
"The ZAP scan and code crawler are valuable features."
"We use the solution for security testing."
"It's great that we can use it with Portswigger Burp."
"It has evolved over the years and recently in the last year they have added, HUD (Heads Up Display)."
"Simple and easy to learn and master."
"The most valuable features of Synopsys API Security Testing are the metrics, results, and threat vectors that it shares."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the algorithm to provide better summaries of automatic scanning results."
"Lacks resources where users can internally access a learning module from the tool."
"The automated vulnerability assessments that the application performs needs to be simplified as well as diversified."
"It would be ideal if I could try some pre-built deployment scenarios so that I don't have to worry about whether the configuration sector team is doing it right or wrong. That would be very helpful."
"They stopped their support for a short period. They've recently started to come back again. In the early days, support was much better."
"The documentation needs to be improved because I had to learn everything from watching YouTube videos."
"The product reporting could be improved."
"As security evolves, we would like DevOps built into it. As of now, Zap does not provide this."
"The solution required us to use our team and we spoke to Synopsys API Security Testing's support to do the implementation. We use two people from our team for the implementation. and one person for maintenance."
OWASP Zap is ranked 7th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 37 reviews while Synopsys API Security Testing is ranked 29th in Application Security Testing (AST). OWASP Zap is rated 7.6, while Synopsys API Security Testing is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of OWASP Zap writes "Great for automating and testing and has tightened our security ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Synopsys API Security Testing writes "Useful threat vectors, beneficial results, but implementation needed support". OWASP Zap is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, Qualys Web Application Scanning, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Veracode, whereas Synopsys API Security Testing is most compared with Seeker, Fortify WebInspect and Acunetix.
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