We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect and HCL AppScan 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."Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"IBM AppScan has made our work easy, as we can do four to five scans of websites at a time, which saves time when it comes to vulnerability."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"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."
"Technical support is helpful."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"It has certainly helped us find vulnerabilities in our software, so this is priceless in the end."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"We would like to see a check in the specific vulnerabilities in mobile applications or rooted devices, such as jailbreaking devices."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"They have to improve support."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 40 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. HCL AppScan report.
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