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HCL AppScan

HCL AppScan
Formerly from IBM

Overview

What is HCL AppScan?

AppScan (formerly Rational AppScan) is an application security testing solution acquired by HCL Technologies from IBM in late 2018. Appscan supports both dynamic (DAST) and static (SAST) application security testing.

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HCL AppScan has been highly regarded by organizations seeking to secure their mobile and web applications. Users have found the tool …
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What is HCL AppScan?

AppScan (formerly Rational AppScan) is an application security testing solution acquired by HCL Technologies from IBM in late 2018. Appscan supports both dynamic (DAST) and static (SAST) application security testing.

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Product Demos

HCL AppScan: Issue Management Gateway Workflow Overview

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HCL AppScan Source V10: Scan a GoLang Application

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Bring Code to Scan into AppScan Source

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HCL AppScan Standard: Setting Up Your First Scan (v 10.0.0)

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Setting up HCL License Server for AppScan

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HCL AppScan on Cloud: Azure DevOps Plug-In Demo

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Product Details

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

HCL AppScan has been highly regarded by organizations seeking to secure their mobile and web applications. Users have found the tool invaluable for performing Dynamic Application Scans, enabling them to navigate through sites and identify potential vulnerabilities or fixes. The application offers a range of configurations, allowing users to customize their security measures based on their specific needs and capacity. This flexibility has made HCL AppScan a popular choice for conducting in-depth security assessments as part of vulnerability management programs. Users have compared HCL AppScan with other products and free alternatives, noting that the test patterns have become standardized across different solutions. The tool has not only helped teams reduce errors but also ensured adherence to security best practices throughout the software development cycle. Additionally, HCL AppScan provides holistic visibility into the security posture of applications, safeguarding them from threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations. Supporting a wide array of languages, this well-engineered source code analysis tool is highly regarded for its static application security testing capabilities. Users have found it easy to share reports generated by HCL AppScan with development members, facilitating collaboration and problem-solving. Furthermore, the tool has been used to pinpoint application vulnerabilities in web applications as well as ensure patching compliance and identify new vulnerabilities. Overall, HCL AppScan has emerged as a reliable solution for organizations looking to proactively address security concerns within their applications.

Users have made the following recommendations based on their experiences with HCL AppScan:

  1. Use IBM AppScan for comprehensive security testing. It provides a wide range of security testing capabilities, including SAST, DAST, Mobile app Security Testing, and IAST. IBM AppScan is suitable for mobile-based organizations and offers support for multiple programming languages. It can easily integrate with CI/CD pipelines, making it suitable for organizations adopting DevOps practices.

  2. Perform thorough testing to identify all vulnerabilities. While IBM AppScan is considered a great product, it may not identify all vulnerabilities. To ensure maximum effectiveness, users recommend conducting proper tests and utilizing specific use cases before moving into production.

  3. Benefit from IBM's expertise in software solutions. IBM is a leader in providing software solutions, and users believe that IBM AppScan is a prime example of their pioneering work. They recommend using IBM AppScan to identify security issues and vulnerabilities within applications. The comprehensive report generated by IBM AppScan helps in understanding and addressing these issues effectively.

In summary, users recommend using IBM AppScan for its wide range of security testing capabilities, suggest thorough testing to identify vulnerabilities, and highlight the benefits of IBM's expertise in software solutions.

Reviews

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would say that HCL AppScan is very simple to understand and use since it uses a user-friendly interface and the terminologies that are used in the interface of the application is very clear. We can automate a scan with any third party like Jenkins. The fact, I don't like is the time takes to execute the application, it should be better.
Sanjana Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In HCL AppScan automation maintain a reasonable pace of review and remediation of flaws for our apps. HCL AppScan is a cloud-based enterprise mobile application security testing solution for Android and iOS applications developed using Java, .Net or Objective-C. So it covers all our area and It consists of three components: AppScan Source Edition for developing and testing apps internally, AppScan Standard Edition for testing internally or externally, and AppScan Enterprise Edition for large enterprises who need to secure their entire mobile application portfolio across the organization with multiple device types.
Brandon R Hudson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Web applications these days have evolved too much and have become extremely complex. With AppScan, the configuration can be done through the GUI by using functions such as "login management" and "multi-step operation". To be honest, there are some parts of these functions that are difficult to understand, but I think we have to wait for more for the arrival of AI.
November 07, 2021

HCL AppScan insights

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
strengths : identifies Static and Dynamic Security vulnerabilities, has IDE plugins for ease of use like VS Plugin, Eclipse Plugin, IntelliJ, etc
Challenges : support build of code files prior to scan, offers limited static analysis features for data identification and runtime data tracking
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
HCL AppScan (formerly from IBM) is well suited for reducing security flaws in my team's secure code development. The software identifies a lot of issues automatically which helps us reduce delivery time and prevent security breaches. HCL AppScan (formerly from IBM) lacks innovation and automation functionalities, while other tools offer artificial intelligence-driven analysis that helps the team reduce time and money. Also, there is a need to reduce false-positives generated by the solution
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This application is well suited for all web applications with the primary difficulty being that is does not handle federated logins.
However since we have validated our federation and vetted it well it is not a critical issue to bypass federation for scanning a site, only an inconvenience as we have to setup bypass authentication and then remove so that is cannot be used by an attacker.
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