Welcome
Administration
Define users, applications, policies, and configure DevOps integrations.
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 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.
- 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.
  - 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.
  - 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.
- Applications
  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.
- DevOps
  Tools for incorporating ASoC in your software development lifecycle.
- Personal scans
  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.
- Scan status
- Audit trail
  The audit trail (Organization > Audit trail) logs user activity.
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.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.
AppScan Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
The AppScan MCP server integrates HCL AppScan on Cloud directly with AI-powered development environments and agents. By implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this server allows LLMs (such as Claude or models running in VS Code) to securely access your security data—including SAST, DAST, SCA, and IAST results—to help you triage issues, analyze findings, and automate workflows using natural language.
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 recommented 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 issues status or delete the asset group.

Change a user's role

Procedure

Select Access management > 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 Access management > 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.

Delete a user

Procedure

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