We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning 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 are now deploying less defects to production."
"The reporting part is the most valuable feature."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"This is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Postman."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"Our customers adopt this solution because of the replication testing and the vulnerability assessment it can do. It is a multi-faceted product."
"We use the tool for our websites. We have a vulnerable subdomain. The tool helps to scan it for vulnerabilities."
"We can get detailed information about vulnerabilities."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is very easy to use."
"The most effective feature of the product is the ability to scan the entire environment."
"Tenable provides the end analysis results covering all the published vulnerabilities and information on the market."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"We have experienced challenges when trying to integrate this solution with other products. When you compare it with the other SecOps products, the quality of the output is too low. It is not a new-age product. It is very outdated."
"They have to improve support."
"A desktop version should be added."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
"I would like for them to add proxy filtering, where you can transfer and alter the package. It is fully automated. Other web application testers programs are actually proxy software, and the proxy software gives you the flexibility of modifying the outgoing package, which will actually help you in exploiting any vulnerability in detail."
"The dashboard could be more user-friendly."
"The platform's technical support services could be better."
"The solution's dashboards could be improved and made more user-friendly."
"They have a general dashboard for web application scanning, but the dashboards and reporting can be improved. They probably have some features in their roadmap."
"The reporting has a very limited customization capability."
"It isn't easy to manage vulnerabilities in Tenable."
"It would be great if there were a dashboard that is more user-friendly."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is ranked 24th in Application Security Tools with 14 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is rated 7.6. 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 Tenable.io Web Application Scanning writes "Highly Recommended Solution with Latest Scanning Methods". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and Contrast Security Assess, whereas Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is most compared with Acunetix, SonarQube, Qualys Web Application Scanning, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Rapid7 AppSpider. See our HCL AppScan vs. Tenable.io Web Application Scanning report.
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