We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Spirent CyberFlood 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."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."
"The product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"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."
"The HCL AppScan turnaround time for Burp Suite or any new feature request is pretty good, and that is why we are sticking with the HCL."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Postman."
"Our customers use it to check for unauthorized file transfer."
"CyberFlood is flexible."
"CyberFlood's best features are its user-friendliness and scheduling function."
"The feature I find most valuable is the traffic generator."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"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."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"It's a little bit basic when you talk about the Web Services. If AppScan improved its maturity on Web Services testing, that would be good."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"Sometimes, when you configure parameters the hardware can't run, it will get stuck at those points without telling you what happened. It would be helpful if the error reporting provided more details about why the test setting is not running. It would be nice if there were a space in the hardware module for you to add some external hardware for more rigorous testing."
"I would also like to see updates on a more frequent schedule."
"The solution needs more ports, more speed, and more gigabytes."
"CyberFlood's accessibility and support for multiple browsers could be better."
HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Spirent CyberFlood is ranked 33rd in Application Security Tools with 4 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Spirent CyberFlood 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 Spirent CyberFlood writes "I like the solution's flexibility". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Spirent CyberFlood is most compared with Ixia BreakingPoint and Ixia BreakingPoint VE. See our HCL AppScan vs. Spirent CyberFlood report.
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