We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Sonatype Repository Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support is helpful."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"For me, as a manager, it was the ease of use. Inserting security into the development process is not normally an easy project to do. The ability for the developer to actually use it and get results and focuses, that's what counted."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"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."
"This is a stable solution."
"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."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"The product's network and intrusion protection features are valuable. It also has rules and compliance features for security."
"Another thing that I like about Sonatype is that if you download something today, and five days from today it becomes vulnerable, it will notify you."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"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."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"It has crashed at times."
"IBM Security AppScan Source is rather hard to use."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"The tool needs to improve its file systems. The product should also include zero test feature."
"What I don't like is the lack of an option to pick up the phone and call someone for support. That is something they need to improve on. They need to have a professional services package, or they need to include that option with their services."
HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Sonatype Repository Firewall is ranked 31st in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Sonatype Repository Firewall 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 Sonatype Repository Firewall writes "You will get clean code every time, and that's a great achievement". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Sonatype Repository Firewall is most compared with JFrog Xray, Cisco Secure Firewall, GitHub, Black Duck and Snyk. See our HCL AppScan vs. Sonatype Repository Firewall report.
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