We performed a comparison between Fortify Software Security Center and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."This is a stable solution at the end of the day."
"You can easily download the tool's rule packs and update them."
"The reporting is very useful because you can always view an entire list of the issues that you have."
"The product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"This solution saves us time due to the low number of false positives detected."
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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."
"We are having issues with false positives that need to be resolved."
"Fortify Software Security Center's setup is really painful."
"This solution is difficult to implement, and it should be made more comfortable for the end-users."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"It has crashed at times."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"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."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"I would love to see more containers. Many of the tools are great, they require an amount of configuration, setup and infrastructure. If most the applications were in a container, I think everything would be a little bit faster, because all our clients are now using containers."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
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Fortify Software Security Center is ranked 27th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 3 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews. Fortify Software Security Center is rated 7.4, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortify Software Security Center writes "A fair-priced solution that helps with application security testing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Fortify Software Security Center is most compared with Fortify on Demand, Tricentis Tosca and Fortify WebInspect, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional.
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