PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs Rapid7 InsightAppSec comparison

The compared PortSwigger and Rapid7 solutions aren't in the same category. PortSwigger is ranked #10 in AS , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 2.2% mindshare in the category. Rapid7 is ranked #2 in DAST , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 9.6% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of PortSwigger users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Rapid7 InsightAppSec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs. Rapid7 InsightAppSec Report (Updated: May 2022).

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Categories and Ranking

PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (10th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th), Fuzz Testing Tools (1st)

Rapid7 InsightAppSec

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is designed for Application Security Tools and holds a mindshare of 2.2%, up 1.8% compared to last year.
Rapid7 InsightAppSec, on the other hand, focuses on Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), holds 9.6% mindshare, up 9.6% since last year.

Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional	2.2%
SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube)	20.4%
Checkmarx One	10.4%
Other	67.0%

Application Security Tools

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Rapid7 InsightAppSec	9.6%
OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing	17.7%
HCL AppScan	14.0%
Other	58.7%

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Featured Reviews

Anton Krivonosov

Application Security Architect at Kuehne & Nagel Inc.

A special tool for penetration testers or security specialists to conduct security assessments

We use the solution for security assessments. It's a special tool for penetration testers or security specialists PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is a standard tool in the security industry. It's a stable solution that has many features. You can download different plugins if you don't have…

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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

"The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the advanced features, user-friendly interface, and integration with other tools."

"The active scanner, which does an automated search of any web vulnerabilities."

"Once I capture the proxy, I'm able to transfer across. All the requested information is there. I can send across the request to what we call a repeater, where I get to ready the payload that I send to the application. Put in malicious content and then see if it's responding to it."

"The most valuable feature is the application security. It also has a reasonable price."

"The solution scans web applications and supports APIs, which are the main features I really like."

"I rate PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional ten points out of ten."

"The most valuable feature of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is the Burp Intruder tool."

"The most valuable features of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional are its ease of use and its cost efficiency."

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"The reporting functionality is excellent."

"The automatic automation of the automated authorization to the SCANNET environment is valuable."

"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 most valuable feature of this solution is the graphical interface."

"I rate stability ten out of ten."

"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 paste the provided CDN into your metadata. Once connected, every piece of information, including vulnerabilities, can be accessed. It also offers demo sessions."

"It is very convenient to get reports from the tool, which offers high-level environmental statistics."

"Rapid7 InsightAppSec helps us in both regulatory compliance and in strengthening our security posture."

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Cons

"The pricing of the solution is quite high."

"The solution is not easy to set it up. You need a lot of knowledge."

"A lot of our interns find it difficult to get used to PortSwigger Burp's environment."

"It would be good if the solution could give us more details about what exactly is defective."

"The biggest improvement that I would like to see from PortSwigger that today many people see as an issue in their testing. There might be a feature which might be desired."

"There is a lot to this product, and it would be good if when you purchase the tool, they can provide us with a more extensive user manual."

"There were a lot of false positives there, and we used to spend a lot of time, like, for security reasons, reproducing those bugs for the development team to fix it."

"The scanner and crawler need to be improved."

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"They should add more features. I would like to see them do a little more on static analysis and also interactivity analysis. Currently, it does very basic static analysis. It could do a little more static analysis, which is something that would help. A lot more interactivity analysis should also be there. It should basically look at security during interactivity."

"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."

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

"The only concern I have with Rapid7 is that it does not provide enough information about vulnerabilities within AppSec."

"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."

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

"There is room for improvement in the response time of customer service and support levels."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a lower priced tool that we can rely on with good standard mechanisms."

"Pricing is not very high. It was around $200."

"PortSwigger is a bit expensive."

"It has a yearly license. I am satisfied with its price."

"We are using the community version, which is free."

"The cost is approximately $500 for a single license, and there are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."

"The yearly cost is about $300."

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is expensive compared to other tools."

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"The price of this product is very cheap."

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

"Rapid7 InsightAppSec is cheap."

"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."

"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

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	35

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

Questions from the Community

Is OWASP Zap better than PortSwigger Burp Suite Pro?

OWASP Zap and PortSwigger Burp Suite Pro have many similar features. OWASP Zap has web application scanning available with basic security vulnerabilities while Burp Suite Pro has it available with ...

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What do you like most about PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?

The solution helped us discover vulnerabilities in our applications.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?

The cost of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is reasonable at approximately $500 per year per user.

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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

Burp

InsightAppSec

Overview

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.

PortSwigger

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.

Rapid7

Sample Customers

Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce

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

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