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."CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"It offers good performance."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"The reporting part is the most valuable feature."
"This solution saves us time due to the low number of false positives detected."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It was easy to set up."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"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."
"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."
"There is not a central management for static and dynamic."
"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."
"Improving usability could enhance the overall experience with AppScan. It would be beneficial to make the solution more user-friendly, ensuring that everyone can easily navigate and utilize its features."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"They have to improve support."
"Improvement can be done as per customer requirements."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
CAST Highlight is ranked 10th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 15th 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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