PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional Reviews

I'm a junior cybersecurity analyst, and I'm helping the seniors to do some testing. Meanwhile, I'm also getting trained with the tool. I mostly use it for vulnerable apps assessment and some auditing. Other analysts use it for penetration testing.

We are using the latest version. We downloaded it three days ago.

I find the attack model quite amazing, where I can write my scripts and load my scripts as well, which helps quite a bit. All the active scanning that it can do is also quite a lot helpful. It speeds up our vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. Right now, I am enjoying its in-browser, which also helps quite a bit. I'm always confused about setting up some proxy, but it really is the big solution we all want.

I am from Brazil. The currency exchange rate from a dollar to a Brazilian Real is quite steep. It is almost six to one. It would be good if it can be sold in the local currency, and its price is cheaper for us. 

I have been using PortSwigger Burp for six months now.

I have found no issues so far with its stability. I can't complain anything about it.

I can't say much about that because we are going to transition to cloud management. I don't know for sure how it is going to scale up. We are still in the testing and planning stages. We currently have approximately five users, and our team is still growing.

I haven't yet used their technical support.

The initial setup is completely easy. It took a day to deploy.

It is expensive for us in Brazil because the currency exchange rate from a dollar to a Brazilian Real is quite steep.

It is a really big solution. There are so many modules. You got to have some training to do it properly and go through a lot of documentation.

I would rate PortSwigger Burp a nine out of ten. I haven't found anything to complain about, but there is always some room for improvement.

Primarily, I use it for scanning the applications and as a proxy to capture and manipulate the application traffic. That is the most useful set of features I have seen in this tool.

The customer is almost all the time results-oriented and they want them real quick.

Burp gives my organization a great authentic source of information on the security posture of web infrastructure.

PortSwigger launched a feature called Burp Extender, which enables organizations to use their own third-party code and integrate with Burp to use its capabilities and create their own customized results. This way, organizations do not need to worry about changing the reporting format and all. They will just get better results.

Burp is the best web application penetration testing tool that I have ever used.

Although all the features of Burp are very useful, I personally love its capability to automatically and accurately detect vulnerabilities. So, I would say it is the Burp scanner that is THE most powerful, valuable, and an awesome feature.

Another, very interesting and quite extensible feature is Intruder. The way you can customize your payloads to suit your penetration testing needs is simply outstanding.

The best thing is that all features are available just out-of-the-box and at a very nominal price.

The one feature that I would like to see in Burp is active scanning of REST based web services. A lot of organizations are providing APIs to access their services to support different business models like SaaS. Scanning these APIs is still a challenge for many security product companies. Even Burp does not have a direct and easy way of scanning REST based web services.

There is a capability to scan SOAP based web services provided there is a WSDL available. So, to conclude active web services scanning is something that I would like to see as an improvement in Burp.

No. Quite stable. The executable JAR file is quite better since there is no installation required.

I have only used it as a single user. But many of my colleagues use it and I have never heard of any such issues.

Apologies. Never Tried.

I have used a lot of tools for web application scanning and penetration testing -- like Qualys WAS, Nikto, OWASP ZAP proxy, Paros Proxy, DirBuster, Burp, etc.

The reason for switching to Burp is the capabilities of this tool. The scanner is very powerful and the way it integrates with third-party code is really cool. Other tools simply do not have these capabilities.

Quite straightforward. Thanks to the availability in executable JAR format -- this makes it a highly portable solution.

I have implemented as an inhouse one. There is no installation as such since the solution is an executable jar file. User just need to double click and start using it.

This is a value for money product.

I am a consistent user of web application scanners and penetration testing solutions.

I have used Qualys WAS, OWASP ZAP, sqlmap, Paros Proxy, and Nikto. But nothing stands close to Burp, because this tool has everything in one single portable powerful package.

If you are looking for a single web application penetration testing solution at low cost, definitely give it a try. You can request a trial of the pro version from PortSwigger if you would like to see the scanner capability in action.

They will, of course, require organizational contacts. Almost all the other features are available in the free version, also.

Mainly, the solution is a proxy. It also contains different tools, including intruder tools for customized automated attacks and tools for repeating requests, or decoding, et cetera. Many tools are there that can perform different tasks for different use cases. Apart from that, we have the BApp Store which contains a lot of tools as well. This Burb Suite is an application where we have all the tools. 

It is mainly used for pen testing.

Features such as the Intruder, Repeater, and Proxy have helped our organization a lot.

The Intruder, Repeater, and Proxy features have been great.

The initial setup is simple.

It is an easily scalable product.

The solution is very stable. 

In some cases, we got a few file postings while doing it by the automatic scan. If that could be better, that would be ideal. The scanner could just be updated a bit more. 

We'd like to have more integration potential across all versions of the product. The enterprise version seems to have better integration services than others. 

I've been working with the solution for six years. 

The solution is quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. 

The solution scales well. It's not an issue.

I have also had some queries and I have used their support services. It was like all solutions out there. They are quite good in general.

Positive

I have used many other tools. This is one of the best tools that I'm using. I found this one much better. 

We have found the initial setup to be very simple and straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

For any configuration for deployment in our project, we assign two people. We have a small team of two aligned with our project. They will handle everything related to implementation. The setup doesn't take longer than one day.

In terms of maintenance, for the customers, what we are doing is we have an internal cyber security team, in which there are people doing the pen test. There are people who are doing the vulnerability assessment for the WASP scan, SaaS. For each, we have a separate team, and based on that, most of the deployments are done by these pen testers only. We do not provide maintenance for customers, however, we do provide reporting and technical support.

Before Burb Suite, we had our own technical team there for everything, including deployment. We have a separate network team and they will manage everything - including installation. It is very simple. You can download that directly. It's all very easy to do in-house.

I don't deal with any aspect of the licensing at this time. I can't speak to the exact pricing. 

I'm just a customer and an end-user.

We're using the latest version of the solution. We usually give an auto-update functionality. All the updates came automatically. We are updating it automatically.

We actually have an .EXE file in our system. We have the professional version. We've downloaded and given out the access key. It's on-premises, not the cloud. 

Overall, I've been very happy with the solution. I'd rate it nine out of ten.

We use this solution when we develop any of our software applications and host it with the website for external clients. All of the applications go through the vulnerability scanner.

Burp Suite is very helpful. The extension that it provides with the community version for the skills mapping is excellent.

The interface for external clients needs improvement.

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

I would like the scanning included for free also.

We have been using this solution for a year and a half.

It's a stable solution. We have not had any issues.

I have not contacted technical support. 

We have not experienced any issues where we couldn't resolve them using our internal team.

We have not required any technical support.

When we compare it to other programs that we have such as OWAP Zap, we found Burp to be more suitable.

The initial setup is straightforward.

It is very easy to automate. It requires some configuration that has you follow step by step instructions. 

It can take four to five hours to go live.

Anyone with minimal knowledge and training can use this tool.

We are using the community version, which is free.

We evaluated OWASP Zap, which was fully open-source.

We use the community version and found that Burp was easier and more useful.

The interface is better in PortSwigger Burp.

I would rate PortSwigger Burp an eight out of ten.

• Intruder - allows inserting predefined or custom payloads at chosen locations inside requests and analyzing results using custom filters;
• Repeater - allows reissuing requests to manually verify reported issues, changing parameters or issuing a specific sequence of requests to test for logic flaws;
• Extender - allows installing additional modules from the BApp store, created by the community in Java, Python or Ruby;

It provides unique features that help me quickly identify and exploit security vulnerabilities in web applications.

Some extra features are not available in the core product (WSDL parsing, SOAP calls, Error checks, Authorization bypass), but additional modules created by the community can be easily installed from the BApp store through Extender, or you can write your own in Java, Python or Ruby.

I have been using it for two years.

Spidering large websites can use a lot of memory and might result in a crash on systems with lower RAM.

It's better to add only one website per project for the same reason as above.

I didn't use technical support.

I used many solutions but I found the best value, features and documentation in Burp.

Starting Burp only involves running a .jar file. The latest version also comes with a executable installer. Setting up a project can be more complex, involving configuring the proxy, scope and different spidering/scanning options.

I believe it has one of the lowest prices for commercial products ($~350 per user per year).

Before choosing this product, I evaluated free products - Arachni, OWASP ZAP, w3af, Vega - and commercial products - Acunetix, Qualys Web Application Scanner.

If you expect a product in which you input your website and click a scan button, Burp is not for you. Burp Suite Pro can perform an automatic scan, but the real power of the product lies in the modules that aid in manual testing. A few weeks are usually needed to read the documentation and ramp-up on all the features, for someone without previous experience.

• HTTP proxy for packet capture
• Repeater
• Intruder
• Spider
• Decoder
• Comparer

Burp Suite is a versatile tool for manual web application penetration testing; mainly used by skilled ethical hackers to test security of web-based applications. It helps capturing and modifying HTTP packets and variables, and observing the application’s response. It allows fuzzing the variable in an intuitive way, repeating the same method, crawling a web application, and similar functionalities.

The professional edition of Burp Suite provides some automated pen-testing scripts to detect application vulnerabilities, like SQL injection, XSS, etc. However, this component is not extremely useful. The results need to be double-checked manually, and false positives are very common, i.e., the tool detects a vulnerability from the HTTP respond when a vulnerability does not actually exist.

I have been using it for five years.

It is a tool used mostly for manual tasks, it is stable enough for that purpose.

If you attempt to map a large website using the Spider component, it can take a long time, and the tool may crash.

I have not used technical support, but online documentation and Help have always been sufficient.

I have used Charles Proxy, CAT, and Fiddler as well, but found Burp easier to use.

For automated scanning, there are stronger alternatives to Burp, such as Acunetix, IBM AppScan, Nexpose, Qualys, etc.

There is no setup needed. It is a Java app that does not need to be installed.

The free version is one of the best proxy tools for manual testing. For automated testing, it provides the best value for money in the market.

I evaluated Charles Proxy, Fiddler, and Context App Tool (CAT), which are great HTTP proxies. I like CAT and Burp as the best free ones.

To effectively use Burp, you will need someone with enough technical hands on skills in ethical hacking and penetration testing.

• Proxy
• Repeater
• Intruder
• Extender API (and plug-ins)
• CSRF generator

This is by far the best application assessment tool I have used. It is more usable and has more features than most of the enterprise tools that cost 10-100 times as much.

I've used it for five years.

No issues encountered.

There are some memory issues, where the application runs out of memory and crashes. This is directly related to Java. This was improved after switching to 64-bit Java, but it still creeps up once in a while.

No issues encountered.

It's excellent.

It's very good.

I use many projects, but Burp is the best all round solution for manual application testing.

It's very straightforward, you just have to double-click a Jar file.

You get many features with the free product, but the real power is unlocked with the Pro version. The intruder is an amazing tool and makes the entire product worth purchasing, and the ability to perform automatic backups is well worth the small price of this product as well.

We used this solution as a proxy. It's a software that intercepts HTTP requests. You can modify them on your system for testing web applications.

It's an amazing tool. We can work with it automatically, or we can work with it manually.

There is no other tool like it. I like the intuitiveness and the plugins that are available.

The plugins are similar to integration. I can create my own login and use it.

The use of system memory is an area that can be improved because it uses a lot. They need to reduce the amount of system memory it uses.

I have been working with PortSwigger Burp for four years.

We can say that it is stable, but it is using a lot of RAM.

It's a scalable solution.

We have more than 30 users in our organization.

Technical support is good, they have a good response time.

The initial setup is straightforward.

This solution requires no maintenance.

PortSwigger is reasonably-priced. It's fair.

They have more features than I can use and I need more time to utilize this solution 100%.

I highly recommend it because everybody in Web Applications Security is using it.

I would rate PortSwigger Burp a nine out of ten.