We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and SonarCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Testing (AST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Usually when we deploy the application, there is a process for ethical hacking. The main benefit is that, the ethical hacking is almost clean, every time. So it's less cost, less effort, less time to production."
"This is a stable solution."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"It has certainly helped us find vulnerabilities in our software, so this is priceless in the end."
"This solution saves us time due to the low number of false positives detected."
"I'm not implementing the solutions. However, I've talked to the people who deploy the tools, and they are happy with how easy setting up SonarCloud is."
"For what it is meant to do, it works pretty well."
"The most valuable feature of SonarCloud is its overall performance."
"The solution can be installed locally."
"The reports from SonarCloud are very good."
"SonarCloud is overall a good tool for identifying code smells, bugs, and code duplication, but we've found that using Android Lint is more effective for our needs."
"Its dashboard provides a unified view of various code quality metrics, including code duplication, unit test coverage, and security hotspots."
"Recently, they introduced support for mono reports and microservices, which is a noteworthy development as it provides a more detailed view of each service."
"It has crashed at times."
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"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."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"I think being able to search across more containers, especially some of the docker elements. We need a little tighter integration there. That's the only thing I can see at this point."
"I've been told by the developers that the solution is too limited. It's not testing enough within the containers."
"The reports could improve by providing more information. We are not able to use the reports in our operation until they are improved. Additionally, if the vendor provided more customization capabilities it would be a benefit."
"The documentation needs improvement on optimizing build time for seamless CI/CD integration with our Android apps."
"The solution needs to improve its customization and flexibility."
"CI/CD pipeline is part of a whole chain of design, development, and production, and it's becoming increasingly crucial to optimize the various tools across different stages. However, it's still a silo approach because the full integration is missing. This isn't just an issue with SonarCloud. It's a general problem with tooling."
"It would be helpful if notifications could go out to an extra person."
"There's room for improvement in the configuration process, particularly during the initial setup phase."
"SonarCloud can improve the false positives. Sometimes the gates sometimes act a little weird. We then need to manually go and mark the false positive."
HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews while SonarCloud is ranked 10th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 10 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while SonarCloud is rated 8.4. 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 SonarCloud writes "Beneficial vulnerability discovery, simple to maintain, and proactive support". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas SonarCloud is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Checkmarx One, OWASP Zap and GitLab. See our HCL AppScan vs. SonarCloud report.
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