We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and SonarCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"The solution is cheap."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"Usually when we deploy the application, there is a process for ethical hacking. The main benefit is that, the ethical hacking is almost clean, every time. So it's less cost, less effort, less time to production."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The most valuable feature of SonarCloud is its overall performance."
"The solution provides continuous code analysis which has improved the quality of our code. It can raise alarms on vulnerabilities with immediate reports on the dashboard. Few things are false positives and we can customize the rules."
"The most valuable features of SonarCloud are the ability to discover vulnerabilities, security weak points, security hotspots, and all the feedback that comes into the feature branch. You can deploy the code with the security, you can eliminate the problem at the developer level rather than identifying the problem in the productions."
"The reports from SonarCloud are very good."
"Its dashboard provides a unified view of various code quality metrics, including code duplication, unit test coverage, and security hotspots."
"I'm not implementing the solutions. However, I've talked to the people who deploy the tools, and they are happy with how easy setting up SonarCloud is."
"For what it is meant to do, it works pretty well."
"Recently, they introduced support for mono reports and microservices, which is a noteworthy development as it provides a more detailed view of each service."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"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."
"It has crashed at times."
"Improvement can be done as per customer requirements."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"The penetration testing feature should be included."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
"SonarCloud's UI needs enhancement."
"SonarCloud can improve the false positives. Sometimes the gates sometimes act a little weird. We then need to manually go and mark the false positive."
"The solution needs to improve its customization and flexibility."
"It would be helpful if notifications could go out to an extra person."
"CI/CD pipeline is part of a whole chain of design, development, and production, and it's becoming increasingly crucial to optimize the various tools across different stages. However, it's still a silo approach because the full integration is missing. This isn't just an issue with SonarCloud. It's a general problem with tooling."
"I've been told by the developers that the solution is too limited. It's not testing enough within the containers."
"We had some issues with the scanner."
"There's room for improvement in the configuration process, particularly during the initial setup phase."
HCL AppScan is ranked 11th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 41 reviews while SonarCloud is ranked 10th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 10 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.8, while SonarCloud is rated 8.4. 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 SonarCloud writes "Beneficial vulnerability discovery, simple to maintain, and proactive support". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap, whereas SonarCloud is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Checkmarx One, GitLab and OWASP Zap. See our HCL AppScan vs. SonarCloud report.
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