We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect 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 solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"The solution is easy to use."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"AppScan is stable."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"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."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"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."
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"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 product has some technical limitations."
"It has crashed at times."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. HCL AppScan report.
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