We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"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."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"Sometimes it doesn't work so well."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
"We have experienced challenges when trying to integrate this solution with other products. When you compare it with the other SecOps products, the quality of the output is too low. It is not a new-age product. It is very outdated."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"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."
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. 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 Synopsys Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with Snyk, SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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