We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect 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."Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"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."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"The penetration testing feature should be included."
"The pricing has room for improvement."
"Improvement can be done as per customer requirements."
"AppScan is too complicated and should be made more user-friendly."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. HCL AppScan report.
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