We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and NowSecure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Testing (AST)."It provides a better integration for our ecosystem."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Postman."
"This is a stable solution."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"The product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to download an application without actually putting in the APK. It gives us an option to put the APK in if we want to but we can download it from the App Store and Play Store."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"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 It is very outdated."
"There is not a central management for static and dynamic."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
"In future releases, I would like to see more aggressive reports. I would also like to see less false positives."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"In this solution, there are two kinds of testing, static analysis, and dynamic analysis. There needs some improvement in testing with dynamic analysis because I have found it is not accurate"
Earn 20 points
HCL AppScan is ranked 12th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 39 reviews while NowSecure is ranked 32nd in Application Security Testing (AST). HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while NowSecure is rated 7.0. 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 NowSecure writes "Scalable and reliable, but dynamic analysis needs improvement". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas NowSecure is most compared with Veracode, Data Theorem API Secure , GitLab, Acunetix and Checkmarx One.
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