We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."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."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"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."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"I like the recording feature."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
"A desktop version should be added."
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"It's a little bit basic when you talk about the Web Services. If AppScan improved its maturity on Web Services testing, that would be good."
"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."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. HCL AppScan is rated 7.8, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. 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 Synopsys Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Contrast Security Assess, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with Snyk, SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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