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We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and Fortify Application Defender based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed CAST Highlight vs. Fortify Application Defender Report (Updated: September 2022).
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Pros
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard.""The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed.""The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages.""It offers good performance.""The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."

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"The product saves us cost and time.""Its ability to find security defects is valuable.""Fortify Application Defender's most valuable features are machine learning algorithms, real-time remediation, and automatic vulnerability notifications.""The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically feed it rules what it's coupled with the WebInspect dynamic application scanning technology.""The information from Fortify Application Defender on how to fix and solve issues is very good compared to other solutions.""The solution helped us to improve the code quality of our organization.""The most valuable features of Fortify Application Defender are the code packages that are default.""The most valuable feature is that it analyzes data in real-time."

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Cons
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user.""The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight.""Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time.""There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset.""CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."

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"The false positive rate should be lower.""Fortify Application Defender gives a lot of false positives.""Fortify Application Defender could improve by supporting more code languages, such as GRAAS and Groovy.""The licensing can be a little complex.""The workbench is a little bit complex when you first start using it.""The solution is quite expensive.""The solution could improve the time it takes to scan. When comparing it to SonarQube it does it in minutes while in Fortify Application Defender it can take hours.""Support for older compilers/IDEs is lacking."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions."
  • "It is a pretty costly tool. A lot of customers are resistant to using it."
  • "Basic support is included with the standard licensing feed but it can be upgraded for an additional cost."
  • "CAST Highlight is an expensive solution."
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  • "The base licensing costs for the SaaS platform is about $900 USD per application, per year."
  • "The price of this solution could be less expensive."
  • "The licensing is very complex, it's project based and can range from $10,000 to $200,000+ depending on the project type and size."
  • "Fortify Application Defender is very expensive."
  • "The product’s price is much higher than other tools."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed.
    Top Answer:CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine out of ten.
    Top Answer:The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight.
    Top Answer:The product does not work well with Java coding. The false positive rate should be lower. The product should introduce more licensing models and reduce the licensing cost.
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    Also Known As
    HPE Fortify Application Defender, Micro Focus Fortify Application Defender
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    Overview

    CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence product for performing rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition Analysis (Open Source risks), Resiliency, and Technical Debt. Objective software insights from automated source code analysis combined with built-in qualitative surveys for business context enable more informed decision-making about application portfolios.

    CAST is the software intelligence category leader. CAST technology can see inside custom applications with MRI-like precision, automatically generating intelligence about their inner workings - composition, architecture, transaction flows, cloud readiness, structural flaws, legal and security risks. It’s becoming essential for faster modernization for cloud, raising the speed and efficiency of Software Engineering, better open source risk control, and accurate technical due diligence. CAST operates globally with offices in North America, Europe, India, China. Visit www.castsoftware.com.

    Micro Focus Security Fortify Application Defender is a runtime application self-protection (RASP) solution that helps you manage and mitigate risk from homegrown or third-party applications. It provides centralized visibility into application use and abuse while protecting from software vulnerability exploits and other violations in real time.

    Sample Customers
    Wells Fargo, Bank of NY Mellon, Northern Trust, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, BMW, AT&T, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, John Hancock, Marsh & McLennan, Ernst & Young, PwC, Volkswagen, Boston Consulting Group, London Stock Exchange, Telefonica, Saur France, Total Energies France, SNCF
    ServiceMaster, Saltworks, SAP
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Insurance Company10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Government8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise75%
    Buyer's Guide
    CAST Highlight vs. Fortify Application Defender
    September 2022
    Find out what your peers are saying about CAST Highlight vs. Fortify Application Defender and other solutions. Updated: September 2022.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    CAST Highlight is ranked 10th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while Fortify Application Defender is ranked 34th in Application Security Tools with 9 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while Fortify Application Defender is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortify Application Defender writes "Reliable solution with excellent machine learning algorithms but expensive and lacking support". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Checkmarx, Veracode and Black Duck, whereas Fortify Application Defender is most compared with Checkmarx, Coverity, SonarQube, CAST Application Intelligence Platform and Fortify on Demand. See our CAST Highlight vs. Fortify Application Defender report.

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