We performed a comparison between Fortify WebInspect and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are lots of small settings and tools, like an HTTP editor, that are very useful."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the static analysis."
"The solution is able to detect a wide range of vulnerabilities. It's better at it than other products."
"Technical support has been good."
"The accuracy of its scans is great."
"Guided Scan option allows us to easily scan and share reports."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ability to make our customers more secure."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"It is easy it is to use. It is quick to find things, because of the code scanning tools. It's quite simple to use and it is very good the way it reports the findings."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"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 solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"It took us between eight and ten hours to scan an entire site, which is somewhat slow and something that I think can be improved."
"One thing I would like to see them introduce is a cloud-based platform."
"The solution needs better integration with Microsoft's Azure Cloud or an extension of Azure DevOps. In fact, it should better integrate with any cloud provider. Right now, it's quite difficult to integrate with that solution, from the cloud perspective."
"I'm not sure licensing, but on the pricing, it's a bit costly. It's a bit overpriced. Though it is an enterprise tool, there are other tools also with similar functionalities."
"Fortify WebInspect could improve user-friendliness. Additionally, it is very bulky to use."
"The installation could be a bit easier. Usually it's simple to use, but the installation is painful and a bit laborious and complex."
"Not sufficiently compatible with some of our systems."
"Lately, we've seen more false negatives."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"The product has some technical limitations."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"A desktop version should be added."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"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."
Fortify WebInspect is ranked 2nd in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 17 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 1st in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with 39 reviews. Fortify WebInspect is rated 7.0, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortify WebInspect writes "A powerful tool catering to multiple use cases that provides reasonably good technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Fortify WebInspect is most compared with PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, Fortify on Demand, OWASP Zap, Acunetix and Qualys Web Application Scanning, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, OWASP Zap and Checkmarx. See our Fortify WebInspect vs. HCL AppScan report.
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