We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Mend.io 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."We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"It was easy to set up."
"The solution boasts a broad range of features and covers much of what an ideal SCA tool should."
"The license management of WhiteSource was at a good level. As compared to other tools that I have used, its functionality for the licenses for the code libraries was quite good. Its UI was also fine."
"The solution is scalable."
"Attribution and license due diligence reports help us with aggregating the necessary data that we, in turn, have to provide to satisfy the various licenses copyright and component usage disclosures in our software."
"With the fix suggestions feature, not only do you get the specific trace back to where the vulnerability is within your code, but you also get fix suggestions."
"The results and the dashboard they provide are good."
"WhiteSource is unique in the scanning of open-source licenses. Additionally, the vulnerabilities aspect of the solution is a benefit. We don't use WhiteSource in the whole organization, but we use it for some projects. There we receive a sense of the vulnerabilities of the open-source components, which improves our security work. The reports are automated which is useful."
"WhiteSource helped reduce our mean time to resolution since the adoption of the product."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"They have to improve support."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"I would love to see more containers. Many of the tools are great, they require an amount of configuration, setup and infrastructure. If most the applications were in a container, I think everything would be a little bit faster, because all our clients are now using containers."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"Mend lets you create custom policies. They're not too complicated to set up, but it would be helpful if they had some preconfigured policies to match what we have in Azure DevOps. That would save us a lot of time. It's tedious to configure the policies manually, and I lack the capacity to do it right now. Other products have preconfigured packs and templates, and Mend doesn't."
"It would be good if it can do dynamic code analysis. It is not necessarily in that space, but it can do more because we have too many tools. Their partner relationship support is a little bit confusing. They haven't really streamlined the support process when we buy through a reseller. They should improve their process."
"I would like to see the static analysis included with the open-source version."
"The dashboard UI and UX are problematic."
"I rated the solution an eight out of ten because WhiteSource hasn't built in a couple of features that we would have loved to use and they say they're on their roadmap. I'm hoping that they'll be able to build and deliver in 2022."
"WhiteSource needs improvement in the scanning of the containers and images with distinguishing the layers."
"WhiteSource Prioritize should be expanded to cover more than Java and JavaScript."
"It should support multiple SBOM formats to be able to integrate with old industry standards."
HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Mend.io is ranked 5th in Application Security Tools with 29 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Mend.io is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mend.io writes "Easy to use, great for finding vulnerabilities, and simple to set up". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and Invicti, whereas Mend.io is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Snyk, Checkmarx One and Jscrambler. See our HCL AppScan vs. Mend.io report.
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