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."We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Postman."
"It was easy to set up."
"The HCL AppScan turnaround time for Burp Suite or any new feature request is pretty good, and that is why we are sticking with the HCL."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"This is a stable solution."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"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."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"We would like to see a check in the specific vulnerabilities in mobile applications or rooted devices, such as jailbreaking devices."
"There is not a central management for static and dynamic."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"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."
"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."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, 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, OWASP Zap and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with Snyk, SonarQube, Invicti, Fortify on Demand and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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