We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and ShiftLeft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."This is a stable solution."
"It provides a better integration for our ecosystem."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"The reporting part is the most valuable feature."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Postman."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"When it comes to ShiftLeft, the most valuable feature is definitely its ease of use and cost-effectiveness."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
"Having support from senior management is crucial in making it mandatory for teams to collaborate with the security team throughout the development process."
HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while ShiftLeft is ranked 26th in Application Security Tools with 1 review. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while ShiftLeft is rated 10.0. 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 ShiftLeft writes "Effectively in identify and fix bugs early in the development lifecycle". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas ShiftLeft is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck and Semgrep Supply Chain.
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