We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Mend.io 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."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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"It has certainly helped us find vulnerabilities in our software, so this is priceless in the end."
"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"
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"Enables scanning/collecting third-party libraries and classifying license types. In this way we ensure our third-party software policy is followed."
"The vulnerability analysis is the best aspect of the solution."
"With the fix suggestions feature, not only do you get the specific trace back to where the vulnerability is within your code, but you also get fix suggestions."
"The overall support that we receive is pretty good. "
"For us, the most valuable tool was open-source licensing analysis."
"We set the solution up and enabled it and we had everything running pretty quickly."
"We use a lot of open sources with a variety of containers, and the different open sources come with different licenses. Some come with dual licenses, some are risky and some are not. All our three use cases are equally important to us and we found WhiteSource handles them decently."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"A desktop version should be added."
"It's a little bit basic when you talk about the Web Services. If AppScan improved its maturity on Web Services testing, that would be good."
"If HCL AppScan is able to alert the clients over email once the scan is complete, it would be great. Right now, HCL AppScan doesn't let me know if the scanning part is finished or not, because of which I have to come back and check mostly."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"It has crashed at times."
"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."
"Make the product available in a very stable way for other web browsers."
"On the reporting side, they could make some improvements. They are making the reports better and better, but sometimes it takes a lot of time to generate a report for our entire organization."
"At times, the latency of getting items out of the findings after they're remediated is higher than it should be."
"WhiteSource Prioritize should be expanded to cover more than Java and JavaScript."
"Mend supports most of the common package managers, but it doesn't support some that we use. I would appreciate it if they can quickly make these changes to add new package managers when necessary."
"The UI is not that friendly and you need to learn how to navigate easily."
"I rated the solution an eight out of ten because WhiteSource hasn't built in a couple of features that we would have loved to use and they say they're on their roadmap. I'm hoping that they'll be able to build and deliver in 2022."
"We specifically use this solution within our CICD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and we would like to have a gate so that if the score falls below a certain value then we can block the pipeline from running."
HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews while Mend.io is ranked 13th in Application Security Tools with 29 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.8, while Mend.io is rated 8.4. 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 Mend.io writes "Easy to use, great for finding vulnerabilities, and simple to set up". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Invicti, whereas Mend.io is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Veracode, Snyk and Coverity. See our HCL AppScan vs. Mend.io report.
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