We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."
"It offers good performance."
"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"The HCL AppScan turnaround time for Burp Suite or any new feature request is pretty good, and that is why we are sticking with the HCL."
"The solution is easy to use."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"It was easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"This solution saves us time due to the low number of false positives detected."
"The solution is easy to install. I would rate the product's setup between six to seven out of ten. The deployment time depends on the applications that need to be scanned. We have a development and operations team to take care of the product's maintenance."
"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"The product has some technical limitations."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"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."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"It has crashed at times."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
CAST Highlight is ranked 10th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Black Duck and Checkmarx One, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap. See our CAST Highlight vs. HCL AppScan report.
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