We performed a comparison between Fortify Software Security Center and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."This is a stable solution at the end of the day."
"The reporting is very useful because you can always view an entire list of the issues that you have."
"You can easily download the tool's rule packs and update them."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"We use it as a security testing application."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"Fortify Software Security Center's setup is really painful."
"This solution is difficult to implement, and it should be made more comfortable for the end-users."
"We are having issues with false positives that need to be resolved."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"The product has some technical limitations."
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Fortify Software Security Center is ranked 27th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 3 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews. Fortify Software Security Center is rated 7.4, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortify Software Security Center writes "A fair-priced solution that helps with application security testing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Fortify Software Security Center is most compared with Fortify on Demand, Tricentis Tosca and Fortify WebInspect, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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