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."The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"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."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Postman."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"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."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 33rd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.8. 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, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, 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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