Welcome
Navigation
This section describes navigating AppScan on Cloud, including items on the side main menu and top navigation bars, with links to more detailed information.
Administration
Use options in the Administration menu to manage users, roles, and access to data.
Users
User management allows you to control access to sensitive applications by assigning them to asset groups and then adding specific users to those groups.
Manage users
Examine your users and decide who needs access to which applications and asset groups. Consider grouping users by business unit or geography.

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.
Navigation
This section describes navigating AppScan on Cloud, including items on the side main menu and top navigation bars, with links to more detailed information.
- Home
  The Home page shows your associated asset groups and applications, as well as recent applications and scans in your organization that are within the asset groups to which you are assigned. From the Home page, you can select one of your latest applications or scans, or view all applications and all scans on the Applications page and the Scans and sessions page, respectively. The What's New section lists recent updates to ASoC.
- Dashboard
  The main dashboard is the fourth item on the main menu bar. It gives you a detailed overview of active issues, MTTR issues, applications, and scans along with graphs and charts that display the overall state of your applications.
- Applications
  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.
- Scans and sessions
  This view lists all scans and sessions in all your applications.
- Libraries
  Search for, review, and take action on open source libraries associated with applications.
- Governance
  Governance is your go-to hub for managing policies, domains, and audit trails.
- Administration
  Use options in the Administration menu to manage users, roles, and access to data.
  - Asset groups
    Asset groups represent abstract components of your organization, like "Finance" or "Engineering." Administrators can restrict access to specific applications by assigning them to an asset group and limiting the users who belong in the group.
  - Roles
    A user's permission is determined by their role. There are five pre-defined roles: Administrator, Manager, Application Manager, Tester, and Reporting Viewer that cannot be modified or deleted. An administrator assigns users to asset groups. Administrators have the ability to change the default user role to any role (except Administrator), including a custom role. Users who have the permission to manage and invite other users cannot assign them a role that is higher than their own role. For example, a Manager cannot invite a user and assign them an Administrator role. Additionally, a user cannot invite someone to a role that has privileges that the inviting user does not have.
  - Users
    User management allows you to control access to sensitive applications by assigning them to asset groups and then adding specific users to those groups.
    - Manage users
      Examine your users and decide who needs access to which applications and asset groups. Consider grouping users by business unit or geography.
    - Functional users
      A functional user is a non-human service account designed to facilitate automated tasks and system-to-system integrations. Unlike standard users, functional users are not tied to a specific individual or email address, ensuring that automated workflows remain uninterrupted even when team members change or leave the organization.
  - Subscriptions
    Subscriptions view displays the status of all your organization's subscriptions. It includes details like the selected technologies, how many months have passed, the number of applications in use, or the number of concurrent scans that can be run per technology, as well as the start and end dates.
  - Settings
    Settings helps you navigate and configure the settings within your organization and data center effectively.
Management
Define users, roles, groups, 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.
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).
AI-powered security
AppScan on Cloud recognizes the increasing role of artificial intelligence in development protocols. Just as AI can speed and strengthen the application development process, so can AI be used to ensure those applications are secure and ready for market.
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.The Scans and Sessions page lists scans under the categories 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.

Manage users

Examine your users and decide who needs access to which applications and asset groups. Consider grouping users by business unit or geography.

About this task

Only administrators have access to User management capabilities.

Invite users

Invite users who already have an Cloud Marketplace account (HCLid) to join your organization and use your ASoC service subscription.

Procedure

Select Access management > Users > Invite users.
In the Invite users dialog, add the email addresses of up to twenty users to invite.
Select the users' role. For details, see Roles.
Select an asset group based on your business unit that restricts access to specific applications and limits the users who belong in the group.
ASoC sends an invitation email with a confirmation link to each invited user.
Note:
It is recommended to select an asset group else the application will be assigned to the Default asset group with limited capabilities where you cannot add a contact person, edit the issue status or delete the asset group.

Change a user's role

Procedure

Select Administration > Users.
Click the user to open the details pane. Click Manage > Edit role.
A drop-down list appears in the role for that user.
Select the role from the list and click Apply.

Note:
Changes to the role of a user who is currently logged in take effect only after the user logs out and log back in.

The user role is changed and displayed above the user name.

Change a user's asset group

Procedure

Select Administration > Users.
Click the user to open the details pane.
Go to the Asset groups tab. You can view the list of asset groups assigned to the selected user.
Click Add asset groups to assign new asset groups to the user.
Click X to remove the associated asset groups.

Revoke API key

About this task

Administrators and Managers (when granted the permission) can also view and manage API keys for other users from this page. The API key grid displays Key ID, Key generated, Key last used, and Expiration date (if available). Keys created before 8-February-2026 do not contain Key last used data. Administrators can revoke a user's API key, but cannot prevent the user from creating new keys if the user's role permits key generation.

Procedure

Select Administration > Users.
Click the user to open the details pane. Click Manage > Revoke API key.
Click Revoke keys. The API keys are revoked for the user.

Delete a user

Procedure

Select Administration > Users.
Click the user to open the details pane. Click Manage > Delete user.
Click Delete. The user is deleted.