We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Seeker 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 most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"This solution saves us time due to the low number of false positives detected."
"AppScan is stable."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"A significant advantage of Seeker is that it is an interactive scanner, and we have found it to be much more effective in reducing the amount of false positives than dynamic scanners such as AppScan, Micro Focus Fortify, etc. Furthermore, with Seeker, we are finding more and more valid (i.e. "true") positives over time compared with the dynamic scanners."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"There is not a central management for static and dynamic."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"If HCL AppScan is able to alert the clients over email once the scan is complete, it would be great. Right now, HCL AppScan doesn't let me know if the scanning part is finished or not, because of which I have to come back and check mostly."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"We would like to see a check in the specific vulnerabilities in mobile applications or rooted devices, such as jailbreaking devices."
"One area that Seeker can improve is to make it more customizable. All security scanning tools have a defined set of rules that are based on certain criteria which they will use to detect issues. However, the criteria that you set initially is not something that all applications are going to need."
HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews while Seeker is ranked 24th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 1 review. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Seeker 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 Seeker writes "More effective than dynamic scanners, but is missing useful learning capabilities". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Seeker is most compared with Synopsys API Security Testing, Coverity, Contrast Security Assess, Polaris Software Integrity Platform and OWASP Zap.
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