HCL AppScan
How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to HCL AppScan's? The following comparison table enables you to
discern the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company's
cybersecurity needs. To better understand each attribute, read their descriptions in the dedicated page.
This comparison focuses exclusively on the product itself, even though it belongs to a larger parent
company. All information collected is based on the product’s technical, functional, and theoretical
capabilities, not on attributes of the parent company.
Organization
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Attribute
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Essential
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Advanced
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HCL AppScan
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Focus
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Native ASPM with in-house scanners
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Extras
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None
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None
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None
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Headcount
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34 | ||
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Headcount distribution
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Engineering 42%, IT 13%, sales 13%,
marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%
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Engineering 50%, IT 12%, marketing 3%
and others 35%
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|
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Headcount growth
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+8%, +10%, -8%
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+6%, +13%, +13%
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Headquarters
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CO and US
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US | |
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Countries
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AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and
US
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IL, IN and US | |
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Reputation
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Same
|
8.84 from 329 reviews over 10 years on
G2, Gartner, PeerSpot and TrustRadius
|
|
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Followers
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Same
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
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Research firms
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None
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None
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Forrester
|
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Founded
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2001 |
2019
|
|
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Funding
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Bootstrapped
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Same
|
Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
|
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Acquisitions
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None
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None
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Acquired 3 times and made 1 acquisition
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Revenue
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10M to 15M
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Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
|
|
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CVEs as CNA Researcher
|
291 CVEs reported to MITRE by HCL
Software
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||
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Compliance
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SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3
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ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017 and SOC 2
Type II
|
|
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Bug bounty
|
No
|
||
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Visits
|
21K
per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%
|
Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
|
|
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Authority
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Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
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Public vulnerability DB
|
Discovered and third-party
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None | |
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Content
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Same
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Blog, documentation, newsroom and
success cases
|
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| Comprehensive documentation |
13 documentation sections, 6 in common
and 7 additional
|
6 documentation sections, all in common
|
|
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Community
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Forum by HCL Software
|
||
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Sync training
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1 workshop
|
No | |
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Async training
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3 product use courses, all free
|
Certification platform and 7 product
use courses by HCL Software (subscription-based)
|
|
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Distribution
|
Same
|
Direct or with any of its 95 partners
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| Marketplaces | AWS and Azure | ||
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Freemium
|
No
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No
|
No
|
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Free trial
|
30-day free trial and PoV
|
||
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Demo
|
Yes
|
||
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Open demo
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No
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No
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No
|
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Pricing
|
Contact sales, marketplace and public
web
|
||
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Pricing tiers
|
1 plan
|
1 plan
|
3 plans (silver, gold and platinum).
All transparent
|
|
Minimum term
|
Annually
|
||
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Minimum payment period
|
Annually
|
||
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Minimum capabilities
|
ASPM, binary SAST, containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and
secrets
|
Same plus: API
security testing, PTaaS, RE and SCR
|
One of the following techniques: DAST,
IAST, SAST or SCA
|
|
Minimum scope
|
1 author
|
1 concurrent scan and 1 scanning
technique
|
|
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Pricing drivers
|
Concurrency and scanning technique
|
||
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Free implementation
|
No information available
|
||
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Free support
|
No
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Service
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
HCL AppScan
|
|
PTaaS
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Reverse engineering
|
No
|
No | |
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Secure code review
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Pivoting
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No
|
No
|
|
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Exploitation
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Manual reattacks
|
Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
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Zero-day
vulnerabilities
|
None
|
Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
|
None
|
|
SLA
|
Availability |
||
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Minimum availability
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>=99.95% per minute LTM
|
>=99.9% per month
|
|
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After-sale guarantees
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Accreditations
|
CNA (as HCL Software)
|
||
|
Hacker certifications
|
Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
|
Type of contract
|
Employee
|
Same
|
Employee
|
|
Endpoint control
|
Not applicable
|
Total
|
Not applicable
|
|
Channel control
|
Not applicable
|
Total
|
Not applicable
|
|
Standards
|
Some requirements from 67 standards, 19 in common and 48
additional
|
All requirements from the same standards
|
37 standards, 19 in common and 18
additional
|
|
Detection method
|
Automated tools, AI and human intelligence
|
Automated tools and AI
|
|
|
Remediation
|
5, 3 in common and 2 additional
|
Same, plus 1
|
3, all in common
|
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Outputs
|
5, 3 in common and 2
additional
|
Same, plus 2
|
8, 3 in common and 5 additional
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Product
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
HCL AppScan
|
|
ASPM
|
Yes
|
||
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API
|
REST with JSON
|
||
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IDE
|
5 functionalities, 1 in common and 2
additional
|
Same, plus 1 functionality
|
2 functionalities, 1 in common and 1
additional
|
|
CLI
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Yes
|
||
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CI/CD
|
Breaks the build
|
||
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Vulnerability sources
|
4 sources, 1 in common and 3 additional
|
3 sources, 1 in common and 2 additional
|
|
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Threat model alignment
|
No
|
||
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Priority criteria
|
CVSS v3.1
|
||
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Custom prioritization
|
No
|
||
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Scanner origin
|
In-house
|
||
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SCA
|
23 package managers, 8 in common and 15
additional
|
10 package managers, 8 in common and 2
additional
|
|
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AI security
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
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Reachability
|
12 languages
|
No
|
|
|
Reachability type
|
Not applicable
|
||
|
SBOM
|
22 package managers, 7 in common and 15
additional
|
10 package managers, 7 in common and 3
additional
|
|
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Malware detection
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Autofix on components
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Containers
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Yes. No information available
|
||
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Source SAST
(languages)
|
12, all in common
|
29, 12 in common and 17 additional
|
|
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Source SAST
(frameworks)
|
22, 4 in common and 18 additional
|
10, 4 in common and 6 additional
|
|
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Custom rules
|
No
|
No
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Patterns
|
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IaC
|
6, 4 in common and 2 additional
|
4, all in common
|
|
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Binary SAST
|
1 type of binary
|
Same, plus 2 types of binary
|
7 types of binaries, 2 in common and 5
additional
|
|
DAST
|
7 attack surface types, 5 in common and
2 additional
|
6 attack surface types, 5 in common
and 1 additional
|
|
|
API security testing
|
No
|
Yes. No information available
|
|
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IAST
|
No
|
No
|
3 languages
|
|
CSPM
|
Yes |
No
|
|
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ASM
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Secrets
|
15 secrets types, 7 in common and 8
additional
|
Same, plus verify other attack vectors
and secrets exploitability
|
20 secrets types, 7 in common and 13
additional
|
|
AI
|
3 functions, 1 in common and 2
additional
|
1 function in common
|
|
|
MCP
|
No
|
||
|
Open-source
|
Not applicable
|
No
|
|
|
Provisioning as code
|
No
|
||
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Deployment
|
SaaS + on-premises (no tenancy
information)
|
||
| Regions |
NA and WE
|
||
|
Status
|
Yes
|
||
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Incidents
|
1.6 per year
|
Integrations
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
HCL AppScan
|
|
SCM
|
6, 2 in common and 4 additional
|
2, all in common
|
|
|
Binary repositories
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
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Ticketing
|
3, 2 in common and 1 additional
|
3, 2 in common and 1 additional
|
|
|
ChatOps
|
None |
None
|
None |
|
IDE
|
3, 2 in common and 1 additional
|
11, 2 in common and 9 additional
|
|
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CI/CD
|
21, 7 in common and 14 additional
|
7, all in common
|
|
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SCA
|
Native
|
||
|
Container
|
Native | ||
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SAST
|
Native
|
||
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DAST
|
Native
|
||
|
IAST
|
None |
None
|
Native
|
|
Cloud
|
None
|
||
|
CSPM
|
None | ||
|
Secrets
|
None
|
||
|
Remediation
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Bug bounty
|
None
|
None
|
None |
|
Vulnerability management
|
None
|
None
|
3
|
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Compliance
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
The latest update to this comparison was on Dec 15, 2025. The primary sources of information
were hcl-software.com and help.hcl-software.com, which were supplemented by specialized
information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.
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