We performed a comparison between Acunetix 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 most valuable feature of the solution is the speed at which it can scan multiple domains in just a few hours."
"The scalability is good. The scalability is more than good because it can operate both as a standalone and it can be integrated as part of applications. So that really makes it a very, very versatile solution to have."
"It's very user-friendly for the testing teams. It's very easy for them to understand things and to fix vulnerabilities."
"For us, the most valuable aspect of the solution is the log-sequence feature."
"Acunetix has an awesome crawler. It gives a referral site map of near targets and also goes really deep to find all the inputs without issues. This was valuable because it helped me find some files or directories, like web admin panels without authentication, which were hidden."
"I haven't seen reporting of that level in any other tool."
"Picks up weaknesses in our app setups."
"One of the features that I feel is groundbreaking, that I would like to see expanded on, is the IAS feature: The Interactive Application Security Testing module that gets loaded onto an application on a server, for more in-depth, granular findings. I think that is really neat. I haven't seen a lot of competitors doing that."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"It is easy it is to use. It is quick to find things, because of the code scanning tools. It's quite simple to use and it is very good the way it reports the findings."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"It provides a better integration for our ecosystem."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"It was easy to set up."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"I had some issues with the JSON parameters where it found some strange vulnerabilities, but it didn't alert the person using it or me about these vulnerabilities, e.g., an error for SQL injection."
"The solution limits the number of scans. It would be much better if we could have unlimited scans."
"When monitoring the traffic we always have issues with the bandwidth consumption and the throttling of traffic."
"We want to see how much bandwidth usage it consumes. When we monitor traffic we have issues with the consumption and throttling of the traffic."
"The vulnerability identification speed should be improved."
"We have had issues during upgrades where their scans worked on some apps better with previous versions. Then, we had to work with their tech support, who were great, to get it fixed for the next version."
"The only problem that they have is the price. It is a bit expensive, and you cannot change the number of applications for the whole year."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"There is not a central management for static and dynamic."
Acunetix is ranked 16th in Application Security Tools with 26 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews. Acunetix is rated 7.6, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Acunetix writes "Fantastic reporting features hindered by slow scanning ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Acunetix is most compared with OWASP Zap, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify WebInspect and Veracode, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Checkmarx One, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap. See our Acunetix vs. HCL AppScan report.
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