AppScan Insights

What is AppScan?

IBM AppScan is a suite of application security testing tools designed to identify vulnerabilities in web, mobile, and desktop applications. It is used by developers and security professionals to automate security testing, reduce risk, and comply with security policies. AppScan offers static, dynamic, and interactive analysis to detect a wide range of security flaws, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and security misconfigurations.

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What other technologies are related to AppScan?

AppScan Competitor Technologies

WebInspect

WebInspect is a DAST tool like AppScan, used for dynamic application security testing.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 22% (619) of relevant job posts

Burp Suite

Burp Suite is a popular web application security testing tool, often used for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis, similar to AppScan.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 6% (1.2k) of relevant job posts

AppSpider

AppSpider is another DAST tool that competes with AppScan in the application security testing market.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 45% (126) of relevant job posts

BurbSuite

This is a typo of Burp Suite, which is a web application security testing tool, similar to AppScan.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 96% (55) of relevant job posts

Cenzic Hailstorm

Cenzic Hailstorm (now part of Netsparker/Invicti) was a DAST tool and a direct competitor to AppScan.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 87% (54) of relevant job posts

Acunetix

Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner that competes directly with AppScan in the DAST market.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 14% (249) of relevant job posts

Fortify

Fortify offers SAST and DAST solutions that compete with AppScan in the application security testing space.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 5% (673) of relevant job posts

Checkmarx

Checkmarx is primarily a SAST tool, providing static code analysis, which competes with AppScan's SAST capabilities.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 5% (581) of relevant job posts

AppScan Complementary Technologies

Metasploit

Metasploit is a penetration testing framework that can be used to exploit vulnerabilities found by AppScan, making them complementary.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 6% (681) of relevant job posts

sqlmap

sqlmap is an open-source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws. AppScan identifies SQL injections and sqlmap could be used to further test and exploit them.

mentioned alongside AppScan in 17% (214) of relevant job posts