HCL AppScan 360° is unified application security, visibility, and risk management. Versatile, scalable, and deployable anywhere.

Explore new features that have been added to HCL AppScan 360°, and note any features and capabilities that have been deprecated in this release.

Learn about different AppScan 360° tasks and workflows for different AppScan 360° users.

Use these sample applications to practice scanning with AppScan 360°.

Useful links to human and online resources.

Before installing AppScan 360°, setup your environment for optimal deployment.

User management allows you to control access to sensitive applications by assigning them to asset groups and then adding specific users to those groups.

An application is a collection of scans related to the same project. It can be a web site, a desktop app, a mobile app, a web service, or any component of an app. Applications enable you to asses risk, identify trends, and make sure that your project is compliant with industry and organization policies.

You can apply the predefined policies, as well as your own custom policies, to show only data for the issues that are relevant for you.

Tools for incorporating AppScan 360° in your software development lifecycle.

A personal scan is a way of evaluating the relative security of an application in development without affecting overall application scan data (issues, for example), or compliance.

The audit trail (Organization > Audit trail) logs user activity.

The Applications page lists all applications in your organization that are within the asset groups to which you are assigned. From the Applications page, you can create new applications and open individual application pages.

This view lists all scans and sessions in all your applications.

The main dashboard is the third item on the main menu bar. It gives you a detailed overview of the current state and history of all your applications.

Organization is your go-to hub for managing policies, domains, settings, and audit trails – it's where you control and organize it all.

An AppScan 360° dynamic (DAST) scan consists of two stages: Explore and Test. Even though most of the scan process is seamless to the user, and no input is required until the scan is complete, understanding how dynamic scanning works can help you to better understand the role of scanning in your development process.

AppScan 360° can perform dynamic analysis of an application that runs in a browser or a web API. Use the configuration options available in AppScan 360°, or upload an AppScan Standard configuration (template file) or a full scan file.

You can record traffic as Explore data for DAST scans using the AppScan Activity Recorder browser extension (for Chrome or Edge), the HCL AppScan Traffic Recorder proxy server, or AppScan Standard.

The HCL AppScan Traffic Recorder (DAST proxy) enables you to record traffic to use as Explore data. Traffic Recorder instances can be created on demand to record traffic that will later be used for a DAST scan.

Supported operating systems and the types of files, locations, and projects that can be scanned by AppScan 360° when you perform static analysis.

To scan source code for security vulnerabilities, follow the steps in these topics.

If you experience problems with static analysis, you can perform these troubleshooting tasks to determine the corrective action to take.

The Issues page for an application, by default displays non-compliant issues only. You can apply a variety of filters to see the issues you need, and click on any issue to open the detailed issue information pane.

Fix groups currently apply only to issues found in static analysis scans.

Generate reports for issues discovered in an application. Send reports to send to developers, internal auditors, penetration testers, managers, and the CISO. Security information might be extensive, and can be filtered depending on your requirements.

After risks are determined and vulnerabilities are prioritized, your security team can start the remediation process.

Following your first scan, as you fix issues you can scan the same application again multiple times and overwrite the previous results; the dashboard always displays the current results. When you scan again (rather than starting a new scan), the rescan overwrites the previous one.

Some frequently asked questions.

Tables showing threat classes of issues tested for by AppScan 360°, and their related CWE numbers.

This section describes how to save response data as in CSV format.