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Building (and Maintaining) vs Buying Pentest Automation and Reporting Software

Why giving Dradis Pro a try makes more sense than building your own solution.

We know that the decision to purchase a system comes with many considerations, and often organizations decide that they want to build a custom solution. However, there are multiple factors that should be considered.

The decision impacts budgets, timelines, team resources, and long-term efficiency.

While building offers flexibility and control, buying a solution saves time, ensures quality, and reduces maintenance costs.

Things to Consider Before You Build

Building custom pentest automation software comes with significant challenges:

Time Commitment: Developing a custom tool requires considerable time, from initial planning and development to testing and deployment. This can delay operational goals, it's not always easy to estimate how much effort and resources are required when building something from the ground up.
Financial Costs: How much will you spend in resources to develop a solution from inception through deployment, through maintenance and upgrades. When your custom system goes down, you lose team's time and productivity suffers.
Support and maintenance: No more spending staff hours to find the source of a problem. No more worrying about your custom solution staying relevant.
Invisible Costs: The impact on your bottom line ― your revenue comes from your client work, not from spending time and resources working on your back-end systems.
Skill and Resource Requirements: You need the right expertise to design, build, and maintain the tool.
Integration Complexities: Custom tools must integrate seamlessly with existing systems and workflows. Designing and maintaining these integrations can be a major task.
Scalability: As your organization grows, your tool must evolve to handle increased demands. Scaling a custom solution often requires significant additional development efforts.
Unforeseen Challenges: Building software can uncover unexpected technical and operational hurdles, increasing both time and costs.

Benefits of Buying Dradis Pro

Opting for an off-the-shelf solution can save time and offer a host of advantages:

Proven Reliability: Dradis Pro has been tested by a wide user base, reducing the likelihood of critical bugs and failures.
Support and Updates: We provide ongoing support, bug fixes, and feature updates, ensuring the software remains secure and up-to-date.
Cost Predictability: While there’s an upfront cost, purchasing a tool provides predictable pricing structures.
Focus on Core Activities: By buying a solution, your team can focus on their core responsibilities rather than spending time maintaining custom software.
Comprehensive feature set: No pressure to build and maintain a large set of requirements. We do the work for you to balance costs and build a more innovative technology.
Integration and Plugins: No need to figure out how to build integrations to the tools you use. We already integrate with most of them.
No Vendor Lock-In: Your data is yours and you own it. You can export your project information, attachments, etc. at any time.
An Established Community: With over 300 new discussions created every year, we have a very open community that is willing to help each other every step of the way.

The Cost of Ongoing Maintenance

Integrations: Maintaining integrations with other systems requires continuous updates to ensure compatibility as environments evolve.
Bug Fixes: Your team is solely responsible for identifying and fixing bugs, which can be time-consuming and costly.
Feature Development: Enhancing your tool to meet changing business needs demands ongoing investment in development resources.
Technical Debt: Over time, unaddressed issues can accumulate, leading to a less stable and less efficient tool.
Resource Risk: What happens when the employee developing your in-house solution leaves the company?

Building (and Maintaining) vs Buying Pentest Automation and Reporting Software

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Things to Consider Before You Build

Benefits of Buying Dradis Pro

The Cost of Ongoing Maintenance

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Building (and Maintaining) vs Buying Pentest Automation and Reporting Software

Why giving Dradis Pro a try makes more sense than building your own solution.

Things to Consider Before You Build

Benefits of Buying Dradis Pro

The Cost of Ongoing Maintenance

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