We performed a comparison between Fortify Software Security Center and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."This is a stable solution at the end of the day."
"You can easily download the tool's rule packs and update them."
"The reporting is very useful because you can always view an entire list of the issues that you have."
"The HCL AppScan turnaround time for Burp Suite or any new feature request is pretty good, and that is why we are sticking with the HCL."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Postman."
"This is a stable solution."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"For me, as a manager, it was the ease of use. Inserting security into the development process is not normally an easy project to do. The ability for the developer to actually use it and get results and focuses, that's what counted."
"AppScan is stable."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"We are having issues with false positives that need to be resolved."
"This solution is difficult to implement, and it should be made more comfortable for the end-users."
"Fortify Software Security Center's setup is really painful."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"Sometimes it doesn't work so well."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
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Fortify Software Security Center is ranked 27th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 3 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews. Fortify Software Security Center is rated 7.4, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortify Software Security Center writes "A fair-priced solution that helps with application security testing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Fortify Software Security Center is most compared with Fortify on Demand, Tricentis Tosca, Checkmarx One and Fortify WebInspect, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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