Application Security Testing Tools
Application security tools are designed to identify and prevent vulnerabilities in software applications, either in its code, dependencies or configuration. +Show More
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Invicti |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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Invicti is an automated application security testing solution. Enterprises secure thousands of websites and dramatically reduce the risk of attack thanks to Invicti's DAST + IAST scanning capabilities. Invicti automates web security organizations with complicated environments.
Using Invicti, security teams can:
- Automate security tasks
- Gain visibility into all applications including lost, forgotten, or hidden apps
- Automatically give developers rapid feedback that trains them to write more secure code with fewer vulnerabilities
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
300-400 employees
Company's social media followers
20k-30k followers
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Snyk |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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Snyk (pronounced sneak) is a developer security platform for securing custom code, open source dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure all from a single platform. Snyk’s developer security solutions enable modern applications to be built securely, empowering developers to own and build security for the whole application, from code & open source to containers & cloud infrastructure. Secure while you code in your IDE: find issues quickly using the scanner, fix issues easily with remediation advice, verify the updated code. Integrate your source code repositories to secure applications: integrate a repository to find issues, prioritize with context, fix & merge. Secure your containers as you build, throughout the SDLC: start fixing containers as soon as your write a Dockerfile, continuously monitor container images throughout their lifecycle, and prioritize with context. Secure build and deployment pipelines: Integrate natively with your CI/CD tool, configure your rules, find & fix issues in your application, and monitor your applications. Secure your apps quickly with Snyk’s vulnerability scanning and automated fixes - Try for Free!
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
40-50 case studies
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
50k-100k followers
Total funding
$1-5bn
# of funding rounds
13
Latest funding date
January 24, 2023
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
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Nessus |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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Built for security practitioners, by security professionals, Nessus products by Tenable are the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Nessus performs point-in-time assessments to help security professionals quickly and easily identify and fix vulnerabilities, including software flaws, missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations - across a variety of operating systems, devices, and applications. With features such as pre-built policies and templates, customizable reporting, group “snooze” functionality, and real-time updates, Nessus is designed to make vulnerability assessment simple, easy, and intuitive. The result: less time and effort to assess, prioritize, and remediate issues.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
2k-3k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$1-1bn
# of funding rounds
5
Latest funding date
July 29, 2020
Last funding amount
$250-500m
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2002
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Burp Suite |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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PortSwigger Web Security is a global leader in the creation of software tools for the security testing of web applications. The software (Burp Suite) is well established as the de facto standard toolkit used by web security professionals. Burp Suite is used by more than 70,000 individuals at over 16,000 organisations, in over 160 countries. Used across the majority of industry sectors, in organisations both large and small. Burp Suite Professional is an advanced set of tools for finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in web applications - all within a single product. From a basic intercepting proxy to a cutting edge vulnerability scanner. Burp Suite can be used to test and report on a large number of vulnerabilities including SQLi, XSS and the whole OWASP top 10. PortSwigger pioneered out-of-band security testing (OAST) and Burp scanner was the first product to make OAST available out-of-the-box with zero configuration and to apply it to a wide range of vulnerability types. The Burp Suite Enterprise Edition enables businesses to secure their entire web portfolio with simple, scalable, scanning using the same cutting-edge Burp scanner technology. The Enterprise Edition performs recurring, scheduled scans across thousands of applications, with intuitive reporting dashboards, role-based access control and scan reports. It can provide out-of-the- box integration with ready made CI plugins, native Jira support and rich API's to enable security incorporation into existing software development processes.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
200-300 employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2008
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SonarQube |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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SonarQube is the leading tool for continuously inspecting Code Quality and Code Security, and guiding development teams during code reviews. SonarQube provides clear remediation guidance for 27 languages so developers can understand and fix issues, and so teams can deliver better and safer software. SonarQube integrates into your workflow to provide the right feedback at the right time: in-IDE with SonarLint, in pull requests, and in SonarQube itself. With over 225,000 deployments helping small development teams and global organizations, SonarQube provides the means for teams and companies around the world to own and impact their Code Quality and Code Security.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
20k-30k followers
Total funding
$250-500m
# of funding rounds
2
Latest funding date
April 26, 2022
Last funding amount
$250-500m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2008
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Veracode Application Security Platform |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Veracode helps companies that innovate through software deliver secure code on time. Unlike on-premise solutions that are hard to scale and focused on finding rather than fixing, Veracode comprises a unique combination of SaaS technology and on-demand expertise that enables DevSecOps through integration with your pipeline,empower developers to fix security defects, and scales your program through best practices to achieve your desired outcomes. Veracode covers your all your AppSec needs in one solution through a combination of five analysis types available for 24 programming languages, 77 frameworks, and application types as varied as microservices, mainframe and mobile apps.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
50k-100k followers
Total funding
$100-250m
# of funding rounds
7
Latest funding date
December 1, 2014
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2006
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InsightVM (Nexpose) |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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InsightVM is Rapid7’s vulnerability risk management offering that advances security through cross-department clarity, a deeper understanding of risk, and measurable progress. By informing and aligning technical teams, security teams can remediate vulnerabilities and build Security into the core of the organization. With InsightVM, security teams can: Gain Clarity Into Risk and Across Teams Better understand the risk in your modern environment so you can work in lockstep with technical teams. Extend Security’s Influence Align traditionally siloed teams and drive impact with the shared view and common language of InsightVM. See Shared Progress Take a proactive approach to security with tracking and metrics that create accountability and recognize progress.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
3k-4k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$250-500m
# of funding rounds
8
Latest funding date
June 26, 2024
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2000
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Indusface WAS |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Indusface WAS (Web Application Scanner) provides comprehensive managed dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution. It is a zero-touch, non-intrusive cloud-based solution that provides daily monitoring for web applications, checking for systems and application vulnerabilities, and malware. Indusface WAS with its automated scans & manual pentesting done by certified security experts ensures none of the OWASP Top10, business logic vulnerabilities, and malware go unnoticed. With zero false-positive guarantee and comprehensive reporting with remediation guidance, Indusface web app scanning ensures developers to quickly fix vulnerabilities seamlessly.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
5-10 case studies
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
10k-20k followers
Total funding
$5-10m
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
April 23, 2020
Last funding amount
$5-10m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2012
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HCL AppScan |
Challenger
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Low
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HCL AppScan is a comprehensive suite of market-leading application security testing solutions (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, API), available on-premises and on-cloud. These powerful DevSecOps tools pinpoint application vulnerabilities, allowing for quick remediation in every phase of the software development lifecycle. Fast and Accurate Scanning for Secure DevOps Developers and DevOps teams can quickly and accurately scan code, applications, and APIs for security vulnerabilities while applications are being developed. This allows companies to fix issues at the earliest stages of the software development lifecycle, when it is least costly to the business. Focus on the Fix Continuous monitoring with IAST, along with auto issue correlation with DAST and SAST scan results allows DevOps teams to group and prioritize findings for faster, more streamlined remediation. Enterprise Management for Security Teams Centralized, easy-to-use dashboards provide visibility and oversight of all security scanning and remediation, and allow users to set scan parameters and compliance policies.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
7m-8m followers
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Checkmarx |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
30-40 case studies
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$50-100m
# of funding rounds
4
Latest funding date
June 25, 2015
Last funding amount
$50-100m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2006
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Sources
AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in application security testing tools:
Application Security Testing Tools Leaders
According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics
What are application security testing tools
customer satisfaction leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current application security testing tools customer satisfaction leaders:
Which application security testing tools solution provides the most customer satisfaction?
AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.
While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.
- Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
- Recency is important as products are always evolving.
- Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
- older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.
What are application security testing tools
market leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current application security testing tools market leaders:
Which one has collected the most reviews?
AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:
- Product line revenue (when available)
- Number of reviews
- Number of case studies
- Number and experience of employees
- Social media presence and engagement
What are the most mature application security testing tools?
Which one has the most employees?
Which application security testing tools companies have the most employees?
314 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 291 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 15 companies with >10 employees are offering application security testing tools. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 200k employees. The largest company in this domain is HCL Digital Experience with more than 200,000 employees. HCL Digital Experience provides the application security testing tools solution: HCL AppScan
Insights
What are the most common words describing application security testing tools?
This data is collected from customer reviews for all application security testing tools companies. The most positive word describing application security testing tools is “Easy to use” that is used in 8% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 3% of all the application security testing tools reviews.
What is the average customer size?
According to customer reviews, most common company size for application security testing tools customers is 51-1,000 employees. Customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 40% of application security testing tools customers. For an average Cybersecurity solution, customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 17% of total customers.
Customer Evaluation
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all application security testing tools. Application Security Testing Tools are most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Customer Service".
Where are application security testing tools vendors' HQs located?
Trends
What is the level of interest in application security testing tools?
This category was searched on average for 0 times per month on search engines in 2024. This number is still 0 in 2025. If we compare with other cybersecurity solutions, a typical solution was searched 918 times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.