Mend.io vs PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional comparison

Mend.io and PortSwigger are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. Mend.io is ranked #17 with an average rating of 9.0, while PortSwigger is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.8. Mend.io holds a 3.4% mindshare in AS, compared to PortSwigger’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Mend.io users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of PortSwigger users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Mend.io are competitors in web application security testing. Mend.io seems to have the upper hand with superior features and long-term ROI benefits.

Features: PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional offers a comprehensive suite of tools that simplify vulnerability detection, straightforward deployment, and budget-friendly setup costs. Mend.io stands out with advanced automation, intelligent scanning capabilities, and robust support for complex deployments.

Room for Improvement: PortSwigger could enhance integration with other software, refine certain tool functionalities, and innovate further. Mend.io faces challenges with occasional false positives, a steep learning curve for new users, and initial setup difficulties.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PortSwigger is praised for straightforward deployment and a responsive support team, ideal for smaller teams. Mend.io, despite some setup challenges, offers robust support for complex environments, alleviating issues effectively.

Pricing and ROI: PortSwigger offers a cost-effective solution with favorable ROI due to low initial investment. Mend.io justifies its higher pricing with a feature-rich platform, delivering long-term ROI by improving security posture and reducing operational costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Mend.io

Ranking in Application Security Tools

17th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (7th), Static Code Analysis (4th), Software Supply Chain Security (2nd)

PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...

Ranking in Application Security Tools

8th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Mend.io is 3.4%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is 1.8%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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meetharoon

CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Enables smooth management of vulnerabilities and promotes a shift towards a culture of security

We have witnessed Mend.io for its high stability, consistently living up to our expectations in terms of performance and reliability. Our developers have reported very few issues and almost minimal to zero downtime, which is a critical factor for our organization to rely on Mend SCA to secure our applications. We didn't experience any major issues in the stability of the product. This level of dependability is crucial for our hundreds of development teams that need to maintain continuous integration and deployment processes without interruptions. We realize the solution's architecture is designed to support a wide range of use cases, making it suitable for organizations of varying sizes and complexities. As a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering, Mend.io eliminates the need for physical server management, which further contributes to its stability. Users can access the platform without worrying about hardware failures or maintenance issues that can affect on-premises solutions. Moreover, Mend.io's integration capabilities with existing workflows—including IDEs, repositories, and CI/CD pipelines—enhance its stability by providing a seamless user experience. This integration allows teams to incorporate security scanning into their development processes without significant disruptions, which is often a challenge with less stable solutions. Feedback from our developers and architects highlights the tool's effectiveness in reducing open-source software vulnerabilities while maintaining a streamlined development lifecycle. Our organization have experienced improved code quality and faster incident response times as a result of using Mend.io. The platform's intuitive dashboard and management views are also praised by our developers for their usability, contributing to a positive user experience. In short, Mend.io stands out as a dependable and reliable solution in the realm of software composition analysis. Its high stability, combined with robust integration capabilities and user-friendly features, makes it an excellent choice for organizations seeking to enhance their security posture while minimizing operational disruptions.

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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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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 is the inventory, where it compiles a list of all of the third-party libraries that we have on our estate."

"The license management of WhiteSource was at a good level. As compared to other tools that I have used, its functionality for the licenses for the code libraries was quite good. Its UI was also fine."

"We set the solution up and enabled it and we had everything running pretty quickly."

"The reporting capability gives us the option to generate an open-source license report in a single click, which gets all copyright and license information, including dependencies."

"The vulnerability analysis is the best aspect of the solution."

"We find licenses together with WhiteSource which are associated with a certain library, then we get a classification of the license. This is with respect to criticality and vulnerability, so we could take action and improve some things, or replace a third-party library which seems to be too risky for us to use on legal grounds."

"We use a lot of open sources with a variety of containers, and the different open sources come with different licenses. Some come with dual licenses, some are risky and some are not. All our three use cases are equally important to us and we found WhiteSource handles them decently."

"The dashboard view and the management view are most valuable."

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"The solution has a great user interface."

"In my area of expertise, I feel like it has almost everything I could possibly require at this moment."

"PortSwigger Burp Suite does not hamper the node of the server, and it does not shut down the server if it is running."

"You can download different plugins if you don't have them in the standard edition."

"It's good testing software."

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

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is one of the best user-friendly solutions for getting the proxy set up."

"The solution is stable."

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Cons

"Make the product available in a very stable way for other web browsers."

"We specifically use this solution within our CICD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and we would like to have a gate so that if the score falls below a certain value then we can block the pipeline from running."

"The UI is not that friendly and you need to learn how to navigate easily."

"AI integration in code security tools like Mend.io is still in its early stages and relatively immature."

"On the reporting side, they could make some improvements. They are making the reports better and better, but sometimes it takes a lot of time to generate a report for our entire organization."

"I would like to see the static analysis included with the open-source version."

"If anything, I would spend more time making this more user-friendly, better documenting the CLI, and adding more examples to help expand the current documentation."

"The initial setup could be simplified."

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"The pricing of the solution is quite high."

"Currently, the scanning is only available in the full version of Burp, and not in the Community version."

"The number of false positives need to be reduced on the solution."

"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."

"There is not much automation in the tool."

"The vendor must provide documentation on how to use the new API feature."

"There could be an improvement in the API security testing. There is another tool called Postman and if we had a built-in portal similar to Postman which captures the API, we would be able to generate the API traffic. Right now we need a Postman tool and the Burp Suite for performing API tests. It would be a huge benefit to be able to do it in a single UI."

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional can improve by having more features in the free version for beginners to try."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is fairly priced."

"This is an expensive solution."

"As we were using an SaaS-based service, the solution must be scalable, although my understanding is that this is based on the licensing model one is using."

"The version that we are using, WhiteSource Bolt, is a free integration with Azure DevOps."

"Over the last two years, they have tried to add more and more features to their license packages, but the price is a little bit high, comparatively."

"Its pricing model is per developer. It depends on the number of developers in the company. The license is for a minimum of 20 developers. So, even if you are a small startup with less than 10 developers, you have to buy a license for 20 developers on a yearly subscription, which makes it quite expensive for startup customers. I provide consultation to startup accelerators. They're small at the beginning, and only once they grow to 20 developers, they can afford this tool. As a result, WhiteSource is missing this target audience. Their licensing is not flexible."

"The solution involves a yearly licensing fee."

"We always negotiate for the best price possible, and as far as I know, Mend has done an excellent job with their pricing. Our management is happy with the pricing, which has led to renewals."

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"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is an expensive solution."

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

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

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"The price for the solution is expensive and could be cheaper. We pay an annual license and our team has several of them."

"I rate the pricing a four out of ten."

"We have one license. The price is very nominal."

"PortSwigger is a bit expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

How does WhiteSource compare with SonarQube?

Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This solution allows for multiple copies of replicated and coded pools to be kept, ea...

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How does WhiteSource compare with Black Duck?

We researched Black Duck but ultimately chose WhiteSource when looking for an application security tool. WhiteSource is a software solution that enables agile open source security and license compl...

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What do you like most about Mend.io?

The best feature is that the Mend R&D team does their due diligence for all the vulnerabilities. In case they observe any important or critical vulnerabilities, such as the Log4j-related vulner...

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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 pricing for Burp Suite Professional is not very high, however, it could be more flexible for clients.

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Also Known As

WhiteSource, Mend SCA, Mend.io Supply Chain Defender, Mend SAST

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Mend.io

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Overview

Mend.io is a software composition analysis tool that secures what developers create. The solution provides an automated reduction of the software attack surface, reduces developer burdens, and accelerates app delivery. Mend.io provides open-source analysis with its in-house and other multiple sources of software vulnerabilities. In addition, the solution offers license and policy violation alerts, has great pipeline integration, and, since it is a SaaS (software as a service), it doesn’t require you to physically maintain servers or data centers for any implementation. Not only does Mend.io reduce enterprise application security risk, it also helps developers meet deadlines faster.

Mend.io Features

Mend.io has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Vulnerability analysis
Automated remediation
Seamless integration
Business prioritization
Limitless scalability
Intuitive interface
Language support
Integration
Continuous monitoring
Remediation suggestions
Customization

Mend.io Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Mend.io. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Easy to use: The Mend.io platform is very user-friendly and easy to set up.

Third-party libraries: The solution eases the process of keeping track of all the used third-party dependencies within a product. It not only scans for the pure occurrence (also transitively) but also takes care of licenses and vulnerabilities.

Static code analysis: With Mend.io’s static code analysis, you can quickly identify security weaknesses in custom code across desktop, web, and mobile applications.

Broad support: Mend.io provides 27 different programming languages and various programming frameworks.

Easy integration: Mend.io makes integration very easy with existing DevOps environments and CI/CD pipelines so developers don’t need to manually configure or trigger the scan.

Ultra-fast scanning engine: The solution’s scanning engine generates results up to ten times faster than legacy SAST solutions.

Unified developer experience: Mend.io has a unified developer experience inside the code repository that shows side-by-side security alerts and remediation suggestions for custom code and open-source code.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Mend.io solution.

Jeffrey H., System Manager of Cloud Engineering at Common Spirit, says, “Finding vulnerabilities is pretty easy. Mend.io (formerly WhiteSource) does a great job of that and we had quite a few when we first put this in place. Mend.io does a very good job of finding the open-source, checking the versions, and making sure they're secure. They notify us of critical high, medium, and low impacts, and if anything is wrong. We find the product very easy to use and we use it as a core part of our strategy for scanning product code moving toward release.”

PeerSpot reviewer Ben D., Head of Software Engineering at a legal firm, mentions, “The way WhiteSource scans the code is great. It’s easy to identify and remediate open source vulnerabilities using this solution. WhiteSource helped reduce our mean time to resolution since we adopted the product. In terms of integration, it's pretty easy.”

An IT Service Manager at a wholesaler/distributor comments, “Mend.io provides threat detection and an excellent UI in a highly stable solution, with outstanding technical support.”

Another reviewer, Kevin D., Intramural OfficialIntramural at Northeastern University, states, "The vulnerability analysis is the best aspect of the solution."

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.

Sample Customers

Microsoft, Autodesk, NCR, Target, IBM, vodafone, Siemens, GE digital, KPMG, LivePerson, Jack Henry and Associates

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

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