We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Rapid7 InsightAppSec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"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."
"It provides a better integration for our ecosystem."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"It is very convenient to get reports from the tool, which offers high-level environmental statistics."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the graphical interface."
"You have various attack modules, and you also have the Attack Replay feature for the attack sequence. You can reproduce an attack and see it. That is a very good feature I noticed in this solution. It helps developers as well."
"It is a very robust solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The templates feature is very easy. You just choose the kind of attack you want on your web application, and you run it against that template and receive a report. It's great."
"It uses a signature-based method to check for problems with your code and will provide an alert if anything is found."
"The initial setup for us was easy enough. We didn't face too many issues. Deployment took maybe 30 minutes. It's quite quick and doesn't cause too much trouble at the outset."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"It has crashed at times."
"When you add new projects for the same product, it either duplicates or replaces the scan configuration. If I run a scan for the same product with a different scan configuration, it should keep the previous scan configuration and not replace it with the new scan configuration. It should just add the new scan configuration. That would be helpful. They do keep the results as it is, but the scan configuration keeps changing. For example, I have set a scan configuration to a full scan, and next week, I want to run a new scan for the same product with some changes or new functionalities. I want to run a partial scan. Currently, if I change the scan configuration to partial, it changes the old one also to partial. That should be improved."
"The number of web applications we can scan is limited."
"Rapid7 InsightAppSec needs improvement in detecting phishing pages."
"The interface should be a little bit easier to manage. Sometimes, the logic that they use is kind of strange. They need to work a little bit more on their interface to make it more understandable. The interface is the only problem. I'm using Rapid7, which is very intuitive. There are other applications available in the market with a better interface. They can include more techniques or options to test different types of security because the templates are limited. It would be great to see them follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework or what is there in tools like Veracode and Synopsys."
"I would like more details of what the product can do."
"In the future, if they can have integration with a lot of ticketing systems then it would be amazing."
"We'd like to see integrations with WAF solutions."
"The reporting is definitely an aspect of the solution that's in need of some work. We found that we'd try to use widgets, but often getting them to work for us wasn't very clear. They need to be more user friendly or offer better instructions."
HCL AppScan is ranked 1st in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 39 reviews while Rapid7 InsightAppSec is ranked 3rd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 12 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Rapid7 InsightAppSec 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 Rapid7 InsightAppSec writes "A highly scalable and robust product that enables users to automate scans". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix and Checkmarx One, whereas Rapid7 InsightAppSec is most compared with Rapid7 AppSpider, OWASP Zap, Fortify WebInspect, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Invicti. See our HCL AppScan vs. Rapid7 InsightAppSec report.
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