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Getting started
Welcome to the documentation for HCL AppScan on Cloud, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use this service.
Data center selection

Getting started
Welcome to the documentation for HCL AppScan on Cloud, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use this service.
- About HCL AppScan on Cloud
  Security is about protecting your valuable assets. Some of the most important assets your organization owns are in the form of information, such as intellectual property, strategic plans, and customer data. Protecting this information is critical for your organization to continue to operate, be competitive, and meet regulatory requirements.
- Roles and workflows
  Learn about different ASoC tasks and workflows for different authorized ASoC users with a valid subscription.
- What's new in AppScan on Cloud
  Discover upcoming and recently added features.
- System requirements
  System requirements and supported operating systems and languages for the ASoC analyzers. Also learn about the supported browsers and minimum resolution for the service.
- Creating an ASoC account
- Data center selection
- Subscriptions
  My Subscriptions shows the status of all your organization's subscriptions, including the number applications or scans remaining, and the start and end dates.
- Sample apps and scripts
  Use these sample applications to practice scanning with ASoC.
- Demo videos
  These "how-to" videos demonstrate using ASoC and how it fits into your workflow, and offer tips and tricks.
- Contact and support
  Useful links to human and online resources.
- Certifications
- Licensing
- Trial Terms of Use
  TRIAL AGREEMENT FOR HCL APPSCAN ON CLOUD SERVICE
Navigation
This section describes the items on the main AppScan on Cloud menu bar, with links to more detailed information.
Administration
Define users, applications, policies, and configure DevOps integrations.
Dynamic analysis
AppScan on Cloud performs security scans for web-applications for production, staging and development environments. For development environments it is aided by Private Site Scanning technology to scan applications not accessible to the open Internet.
Interactive monitoring
Using an agent installed on your application, ASoC identifies security vulnerabilities in your application during runtime by monitoring all interactions, both legitimate and malicious. The process is "passive," in the sense that IAST does not send its own tests, and can therefore run indefinitely.
Software Composition Analysis
Use Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to scan for security vulnerabilities in open source and third-party packages used by your code. SCA includes Intelligent Finding Analytics (IFA) and Intelligent Code Analytics (ICA).
Static analysis
Use static analysis (SAST) to scan for security vulnerabilities in web and desktop applications. Static analysis includes Intelligent Finding Analytics (IFA) and Intelligent Code Analytics (ICA).
Results
The Scans and Sessions page lists the scans under the categories DAST, SAST, SCA, and IAST, where you can view your scan results, including scan statistics. To view, rescan, or download reports, select a scan.
Troubleshooting
If you experience problems with this service, you can perform these troubleshooting tasks to determine the corrective action to take.
FAQ & Reference
Frequently asked questions, information about integrating ASoC into the product lifecycle (SDLC), and ASoC API documentation.

Data center selection

HCL offers AppScan on Cloud in the following geographic locations, allowing customers to access security scanning tools in the region of their choice:

All locations offer the same service and support. Data is not shared between the data centers.

Choosing a data center

Data center use is an organizational choice. It does not depend on the location of individual users.

Organizations choose a data center upon registering for AppScan on Cloud using a valid license key. License keys are data center-specific.

Users log into the data center chosen by their organization. User invitations direct users to the chosen data center.

While a user's HCL ID will work in all data centers, the HCL ID must be associated with accounts in each region, and the user must log into each data center separately. The landing page for each data center indicates the region.

Note: As new data centers are established, new accounts need to be created to access those data centers. For example, ASoC users who accessed the US data center prior to the establishment of the EU data center will continue to use the US data center.

API keys

API keys for plugins also are data center-specific. To generate API keys for plugins for the AppScan on Cloud data centers, choose the appropriate location:

North America data center: https://cloud.appscan.com/main/apikey
Western Europe data center: https://eu.cloud.appscan.com/main/apikey

For additional information in generating API keys, see Generating API Keys.