We performed a comparison between Fortify Application Defender and HCL AppScan 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."The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically feed it rules what it's coupled with the WebInspect dynamic application scanning technology."
"The tool's most valuable feature is software composition analysis. This feature works well with my .NET applications, providing a better understanding of library vulnerabilities."
"Its ability to find security defects is valuable."
"We are able to provide out customers with a secure application after development. They are no longer left wondering if they are vulnerable to different threats within the market following deployment."
"The solution helped us to improve the code quality of our organization."
"Fortify Application Defender's most valuable features are machine learning algorithms, real-time remediation, and automatic vulnerability notifications."
"The most valuable feature is that it analyzes data in real-time."
"The product saves us cost and time."
"Usually when we deploy the application, there is a process for ethical hacking. The main benefit is that, the ethical hacking is almost clean, every time. So it's less cost, less effort, less time to production."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is Postman."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is its integration with the SDLC, particularly during the coding phase."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"Fortify Application Defender could improve by supporting more code languages, such as GRAAS and Groovy."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The product should integrate industry-standard code review tools internally with its system. This would streamline the coding process, as developers wouldn't need multiple tools for code review and security checks. Many independent and open-source tools are available, from Apache to various libraries. Using multiple DevOps pipeline tools can slow the turnaround time."
"Support for older compilers/IDEs is lacking."
"I encountered many false positives for Python applications."
"The solution could improve the time it takes to scan. When comparing it to SonarQube it does it in minutes while in Fortify Application Defender it can take hours."
"Fortify Application Defender gives a lot of false positives."
"The workbench is a little bit complex when you first start using it."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"It has crashed at times."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
Fortify Application Defender is ranked 30th in Application Security Tools with 11 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews. Fortify Application Defender is rated 7.8, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortify Application Defender writes "Useful for fast code review in devOps pipelines ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Fortify Application Defender is most compared with Checkmarx One, CAST Application Intelligence Platform, Coverity, SonarQube and Qualys Web Application Scanning, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, OWASP Zap and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional. See our Fortify Application Defender vs. HCL AppScan report.
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