We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and NowSecure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."We use it as a security testing application."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"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 Postman."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to download an application without actually putting in the APK. It gives us an option to put the APK in if we want to but we can download it from the App Store and Play Store."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"It has crashed at times."
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"The product has some technical limitations."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"Sometimes it doesn't work so well."
"In this solution, there are two kinds of testing, static analysis, and dynamic analysis. There needs some improvement in testing with dynamic analysis because I have found it is not accurate"
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HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews while NowSecure is ranked 32nd in Application Security Testing (AST). HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while NowSecure is rated 7.0. 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 NowSecure writes "Scalable and reliable, but dynamic analysis needs improvement". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas NowSecure is most compared with Veracode, Data Theorem API Secure , GitLab, Acunetix and Checkmarx One.
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