We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."
"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"It offers good performance."
"The reporting part is the most valuable feature."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is its integration with the SDLC, particularly during the coding phase."
"It was easy to set up."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"It has crashed at times."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
CAST Highlight is ranked 10th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 40 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Checkmarx One and Black Duck, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap. See our CAST Highlight vs. HCL AppScan report.
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