We performed a comparison between OWASP Zap and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. I think it's stable enough. I don't see any crashes within the application, so its stability is high."
"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."
"It can be used effectively for internal auditing."
"The best feature is the Zap HUD (Heads Up Display) because the customers can use the website normally. If we scan websites with automatic scanning, and the website has a web application firewall, it's very difficult."
"Simple to use, good user interface."
"Simple and easy to learn and master."
"It has evolved over the years and recently in the last year they have added, HUD (Heads Up Display)."
"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."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"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 product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"They stopped their support for a short period. They've recently started to come back again. In the early days, support was much better."
"Zap could improve by providing better reports for security and recommendations for the vulnerabilities."
"The solution is somewhat unreliable because after we get the finding, we have to manually verify each of its findings to see whether it's a false positive or a true finding, and it takes time."
"The automated vulnerability assessments that the application performs needs to be simplified as well as diversified."
"It doesn't run on absolutely every operating system."
"The documentation needs to be improved because I had to learn everything from watching YouTube videos."
"The forced browse has been incorporated into the program and it is resource-intensive."
"There are too many false positives."
"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."
"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."
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OWASP Zap is ranked 8th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 37 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. OWASP Zap is rated 7.6, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. 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 Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". OWASP Zap is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Qualys Web Application Scanning and Veracode, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with Snyk, SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and Ixia BreakingPoint.
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