We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and NowSecure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."The solution is easy to install. I would rate the product's setup between six to seven out of ten. The deployment time depends on the applications that need to be scanned. We have a development and operations team to take care of the product's maintenance."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"It comes with all of the templates that we need. For example, we are a company that is regulated by PCI. In order to be PCI compliant, we have a lot of checks and procedures to which we have to comply."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"The product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"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."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to download an application without actually putting in the APK. It gives us an option to put the APK in if we want to but we can download it from the App Store and Play Store."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"They have to improve support."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"The product has some technical limitations."
"In this solution, there are two kinds of testing, static analysis, and dynamic analysis. There needs some improvement in testing with dynamic analysis because I have found it is not accurate"
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HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews while NowSecure is ranked 32nd in Application Security Testing (AST). HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while NowSecure is rated 7.0. 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 NowSecure writes "Scalable and reliable, but dynamic analysis needs improvement". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas NowSecure is most compared with Veracode, Data Theorem API Secure , GitLab, Acunetix and Checkmarx One.
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