We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"It was easy to set up."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"The product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"It has certainly helped us find vulnerabilities in our software, so this is priceless in the end."
"IBM AppScan has made our work easy, as we can do four to five scans of websites at a time, which saves time when it comes to vulnerability."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"A desktop version should be added."
"The tool should improve its output. Scanning is not a challenge anymore since there are many such tools available in the market. The product needs to focus on how its output is being used by end users. It should be also more user-friendly. One of the major challenges is in the tool's integration with applications that need to be scanned. Sometimes, the scanning is not proper."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"It's a little bit basic when you talk about the Web Services. If AppScan improved its maturity on Web Services testing, that would be good."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"I think being able to search across more containers, especially some of the docker elements. We need a little tighter integration there. That's the only thing I can see at this point."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. HCL AppScan report.
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