This section explains how to use additional tools provided with HCL AppScan Standard.
AppScan offers access to five utilities (PowerTools), each providing a specific feature to help you manage your application security or to help you use AppScan.
The HTTP Request Editor PowerTool enables you to send a fully-controlled HTTP request to your site, to test how your site responds to different kinds of HTTP request.
Welcome to the documentation for HCL AppScan Standard version 10.4.0
This section provides a short tour of basic product features and procedures, including using the wizard to set up a scan.
You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
Manual exploring enables you to explore specific parts of your application, filling in fields and forms as you go. This can be a way of ensuring that particular areas of the site are covered, and that AppScan has the information needed to complete forms correctly.
Learn how to start a scan, and what happens during the scan; how to manually manipulate the Explore stage, and how to export the results of a scan.
Data view is populated with information about the structure of the site during the Explore stage of the scan.
Issues view provides access to the results of a scan. You can view results at a high level or select specific tests or objects and access more details. These details include how to fix, requests/responses, and differences between the test variants that resulted in issues. You can manipulate the severity of issues, resend tests (with or without modifications), and create reports based on Issues.
This section describes how to generate reports from the scan results.
This section describes options you can control, to customize AppScan, from the Options dialog box in Tools > Options.
This extension lets you scan using Open API description files. It is available from Tools > Extensions > Web Services Wizard (Open API), and the extension is enabled by default.
The Authentication Tester PowerTool is a testing utility that uses the "brute-force" technique to reveal weak username-password combinations that could be used to gain access to your web application. (A brute force attack is an automated process of trial and error used to guess authentication credentials, causing a server to acknowledge an imposter as a legitimate user.)
The Connection Test PowerTool enables you to ping web sites without using the Ping protocol, which is blocked by many firewalls.
The Encode/Decode PowerTool encodes and decodes strings you put into it, to and from the format of your choice.
Writing precise regular expressions can be a tedious trial-and-error process. You can use the Expression Test PowerTool to help accelerate the process.
Logs can help you troubleshooting.
You can filter the Result List in any of the views, for specific data.
This section describes integrations of other applications with AppScan Standard:
This section contains some best practices and use cases for advanced users.
This section describes the syntax and options available using the Command line interface.
Menus and toolbar summaries, and glossary