We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It offers good performance."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."
"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."
"This solution saves us time due to the low number of false positives detected."
"The solution is cheap."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"We would like to see a check in the specific vulnerabilities in mobile applications or rooted devices, such as jailbreaking devices."
"It has crashed at times."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
CAST Highlight is ranked 13th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Black Duck and Checkmarx One, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap. See our CAST Highlight vs. HCL AppScan report.
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