We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Veracode 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's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"IBM AppScan has made our work easy, as we can do four to five scans of websites at a time, which saves time when it comes to vulnerability."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"This is a stable solution."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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."
"What's important for me, from Veracode, is the all-in-one metrics location. I can see where everything is across the entire portfolio of applications I have in this program, and I can report out on it."
"The time savings has been tremendous. We saw ROI in the first six months."
"It's hard to say that any single feature is the most essential. There are many errors and vulnerabilities in software today in the standard libraries for different vendors because. We don't need to reinvent the wheel every time because we're using standard libraries, and it's important to know that your security isn't compromised because you are using libraries with vulnerabilities."
"To me, the principal feature is the CLI (command-line interface) because I put together a lot of implementations using it. Another important aspect is the low false-positive rate because the solution is very configurable. It is as low as 1 percent and that is a huge difference compared to competitors."
"The solution is stable. we've never had any issues surrounding its stability."
"The ability on static scans to be able to do sandbox scans which do not generate metrics."
"We use it to get our scan results and see where our software is vulnerable or not vulnerable."
"The integration of static testing with our Azure DevOps CI pipeline was easy."
"The dashboard, for AppScan or the Fortified fast tool, which we use needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"It has crashed at times."
"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."
"They should have a better UI for dashboards."
"A desktop version should be added."
"Veracode is a little costly. It's cost-effective for a large enterprise, but it may be too expensive for small businesses."
"Veracode can be slow at times and has room for improvement, which may cause delays in our products and prolonged static scans."
"It should include more informational, low level, vulnerability summaries and groupings. Large related groups of low level vulnerabilities may amount to a design flaw or another avenue for attack."
"The static scans on Java lack microservices architecture scanning. We have developed an in-house pattern for this and the scans can't take care of it as a single entity."
"It does nearly everything, but penetration testing."
"There might be room for improvement in the in-app guidance and the tips and tricks for the developer about how to progress. We would like more insight into the development environment, where they would get guidance on how to avoid flaws."
"We use Ruby on Rails and we still don't have any support for that from Veracode."
"The technical support service has room for improvement."
HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 40 reviews while Veracode is ranked 2nd in Application Security Tools with 194 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Veracode is rated 8.2. 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 Veracode writes "Helps to reduce false positives and prevent vulnerable code from entering production, but does not support incremental scanning ". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Acunetix, OWASP Zap, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Checkmarx One, whereas Veracode is most compared with SonarQube, Checkmarx One, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and GitLab. See our HCL AppScan vs. Veracode report.
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