HCL AppScan Reviews

Name: HCL AppScan
Brand: HCLTech
Rating: 4 (39 reviews)

Vendor: HCLTech

3.8 out of 5

39 reviews
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IBM Security AppScan enhances web application security and mobile application security, improves application security program management and strengthens regulatory compliance. By scanning your web and mobile applications prior to deployment, AppScan enables you to identify security vulnerabilities and generate reports and fix recommendations.

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HCL AppScan is the #1 ranked solution in top Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solutions, #12 ranked solution in AST tools, and #14 ranked solution in application security solutions. PeerSpot users give HCL AppScan an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. HCL AppScan is most commonly compared to SonarQube: HCL AppScan vs SonarQube. HCL AppScan is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Featured reviews

AnanyaRoy

Risk Analyst at Deloitte

Sep 25, 2023

I use HCL AppScan in my company for application security scanning The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is good to run the scan faster. You can basically run the scan and take a break at work since the tool will compute the results, which makes the product quite…

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Rishi Anupam

Senior Manager at Airtel

May 29, 2023

The solution is used for the vulnerabilities scan on the network side The reporting part is the most valuable feature. The penetration testing feature should be included. I have been using the solution for four years. It is a stable solution. I rate it seven out of ten. It is a scalable…

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Gladwin Christian

QA manager at SmartStream Technologies ltd.

Sep 29, 2023

Given that we have been using HCL AppScan for many years, I think the setup process is not difficult at all. Sometimes, some issues stop or prevent my company from moving forward with the product's setup phase. We have to call HCL's support team and engage in long discussions to smoothly carry out the setup phase. In general, the product's setup phase is not difficult in our company. The solution is deployed on an on-premises model. The licenses for the solution are available only on cloud deployments nowadays. The solution is already installed in our environment. Every time a new release or software comes out from HCL, our company does a scan, which takes maybe a day or two.

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HCL AppScan market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of HCL AppScan in the Application Security Tools category stands at 2.5%, marking a decrease of 3.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"

Room for Improvement

"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."