We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Ixia BreakingPoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Testing (AST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has certainly helped us find vulnerabilities in our software, so this is priceless in the end."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"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"
"The reporting part is the most valuable feature."
"AppScan is stable."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"The DDoS testing module is useful and quick to use."
"There is a virtual version of the product which is scaled to 100s of virtual testing blades."
"I like that we can test cloud applications."
"The most valuable feature of Ixia BreakingPoint is the ransomware and malware database for simulated attacks."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We use Ixia BreakingPoint for Layer 7 traffic generation. That's what we like."
"The solution has many protocols and options, making it very flexible."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The solution originally was hard to configure; I'm not sure if they've updated this to make it simpler, but if not, it's something that could be streamlined."
"The integration could improve in Ixia BreakingPoint."
"They should improve UI mode packages for the users."
"The quality of the traffic generation could be improved with Ixia BreakingPoint, i.e. to get closer to being accurate in what a real user will do."
"The production traffic simulations are not realistic enough for some types of DDoS attacks."
"I would appreciate some preconfigured network neighborhoods, which are predefined settings for testing networks."
"The price could be better."
HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews while Ixia BreakingPoint is ranked 23rd in Application Security Testing (AST) with 8 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Ixia BreakingPoint is rated 8.4. 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 Ixia BreakingPoint writes "Works better for testing traffic, mix profile, and enrollment scenarios than other solutions". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Ixia BreakingPoint is most compared with Spirent CyberFlood and Synopsys Defensics. See our HCL AppScan vs. Ixia BreakingPoint report.
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