We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning 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."This is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"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 product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"The solution is easy to install. I would rate the product's setup between six to seven out of ten. The deployment time depends on the applications that need to be scanned. We have a development and operations team to take care of the product's maintenance."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It combines both web application vulnerability management and internal vulnerability management on one platform and dashboard. Usually, you have to purchase separate tools."
"Qualys' process of updating signatures is something we really appreciate, and it's way ahead of its industry peers."
"We have experienced quick customer support. They have a complete list of our previous issues along with our history, which makes it faster for them to solve issues."
"It is a cloud-based solution, so it is easy to scale."
"Qualys WAS' most valuable features are the navigation flow of the UI and the option for a different layer of security (identification and operation through email and mobile)."
"By using QualysGuard, we are able to finish external scans with assured results in half the time."
"The product prevents possible vulnerabilities in our network."
"The most valuable feature of Qualys Web Application Scanning is the effective scanning that can be done."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"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."
"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"
"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."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"Qualys Web Application Scanning is very complex to use, and its graphical interface is not very user-friendly."
"The support could be faster."
"In certain cases, this product does have false positives, which the company should work on."
"The GUI could be a little less complicated as it opens a lot of new windows for creating search lists, templates, reports, or for scanning purposes."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"The UI is not user-friendly and you don't have a yearly reporting facility where you can slice and dice in different jobs."
"It should have better automatic reporting."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.8, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. 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 Qualys Web Application Scanning writes "A stable solution that can be used for infrastructure vulnerability scanning and web application scanning". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Snyk, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Acunetix. See our HCL AppScan vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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