We performed a comparison between Fortify Software Security Center and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The reporting is very useful because you can always view an entire list of the issues that you have."
"This is a stable solution at the end of the day."
"This solution saves us time due to the low number of false positives detected."
"It was easy to set up."
"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 solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"It is easy it is to use. It is quick to find things, because of the code scanning tools. It's quite simple to use and it is very good the way it reports the findings."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"I like the recording feature."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"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."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
"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."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"Sometimes it doesn't work so well."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
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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 and Fortify WebInspect, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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