We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Qualys Web Application Scanning 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."I like the recording feature."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"Its most valuable features are patch management, vulnerability management, and PCI compliance."
"This product is designed for easy scalability and can easily scale up without major challenges."
"The Qualys Web Application Scanning solution offers a single comprehensive console and consolidated reporting, covering all aspects from on-prem to cloud and compliance, etcetera."
"With our vulnerabilities under control, it's putting our services in compliance and minimizing our risk for exposure."
"It is a good product for website penetration testing to detect vulnerabilities."
"It combines both web application vulnerability management and internal vulnerability management on one platform and dashboard. Usually, you have to purchase separate tools."
"Key features include: Cloud-based, so the installation is not so tedious. Easily deployed. Highly scalable. Comprehensive reporting."
"The simplicity of exporting reports and the simplicity and clarity of the reports included with the product are good."
"The tool should improve its output. Scanning is not a challenge anymore since there are many such tools available in the market. The product needs to focus on how its output is being used by end users. It should be also more user-friendly. One of the major challenges is in the tool's integration with applications that need to be scanned. Sometimes, the scanning is not proper."
"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 solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"They have to improve support."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"The UI is not user-friendly and you don't have a yearly reporting facility where you can slice and dice in different jobs."
"When comparing this solution to Veracode, Veracode has good interactive features and gives a clear understanding of what the vulnerabilities are, which error line of the vulnerability is on and what can be done. It gives interactive features, whereas this solution does not give a clear understanding of where or how to fix the problem."
"The GUI could be a little less complicated as it opens a lot of new windows for creating search lists, templates, reports, or for scanning purposes."
"The software’s pricing could be improved."
"The reporting contains too many false positives."
"There should be better visibility into the application."
"In terms of the Policy Compliance model which they currently have, not all the platforms are being covered. If they could improve on the Policy Compliance model, since there are policies which are benchmarked against it, this will be helpful for us."
"The scanner reports a lot of false positives, which is something that needs to be improved."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Qualys Web Application Scanning is ranked 19th in Application Security Tools with 31 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Qualys Web Application Scanning is rated 7.8. 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 Qualys Web Application Scanning writes "A stable solution that can be used for infrastructure vulnerability scanning and web application scanning". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and Snyk, whereas Qualys Web Application Scanning is most compared with OWASP Zap, Veracode, SonarQube, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Checkmarx One. See our HCL AppScan vs. Qualys Web Application Scanning report.
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