Every category where a model named HCL AppScan for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Dynamic application security testing	Developer platform	0%	47 of 58	44%	9	under 10 labels · led by OWASP ZAP at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HCL AppScan yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated HCL AppScan across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase6 labelsNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained7 labels2

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative18 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“HCL AppScan is designed to help smaller businesses automate security testing without complex configurations.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DAST · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best-in-class FP rate (2% in benchmarks) | User experience can be dated” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DAST · scale prompt · alternative

“Leaders like ... HCL AppScan... score higher on accuracy” Grok 4.20 · DAST · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“teams that cannot afford enterprise-grade commercial tools like Burp Suite Professional, HCL AppScan, or Rapid7” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DAST · budget prompt · soft negative

“Older architecture, struggles with SPAs/APIs, high false positive rates, complex configuration” Kimi K2 · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative

“older configurations of Fortify WebInspect, HCL AppScan, or Qualys WAS ... tread carefully” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative

“Be cautious with: HCL AppScan (slow + costly, but lowest FPs if you can afford the wait)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DAST · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HCL AppScan, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HCL AppScan was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Invicti39 of 5519Not among the top eight

Rapid7 InsightAppSec26 of 550Not among the top eight

OWASP ZAP23 of 557Not among the top eight

Veracode DAST22 of 552Not among the top eight

Burp Suite22 of 551Not among the top eight

StackHawk21 of 553Not among the top eight

Acunetix21 of 551Not among the top eight

Checkmarx One18 of 552Not among the top eight

Checkmarx DAST18 of 550Not among the top eight

Qualys WAS16 of 550Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named HCL AppScan. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 54 of the 55 answers that named HCL AppScan and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

augmentcode.com39

getastra.com38

checkmarx.com31

aikido.dev30

appsecsanta.com30

invicti.com29

beaglesecurity.com25

stackhawk.com24

cyberpress.org21

escape.tech20

287 of the 287 domain citations in answers naming HCL AppScan came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

getastra.com/blog/dast/tools38

augmentcode.com/tools/best-dast-tools-for-enterprise-security35

stackhawk.com/blog/dynamic-application-security-testing-tools-comparison22

invicti.com/blog/web-security/best-enterprise-dast-tools-for-large-enterprises-buyers-guid20

cyberpress.org/dast-tools-by-use-case19

getautonoma.com/blog/dast-tools19

aimultiple.com/dast-tools17

checkmarx.com/learn/dast/dast-tools-key-features-and-12-solutions-to-know-in-202617

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

hcl-software.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, HCL AppScan takes 0% of first choices and OWASP ZAP takes 29%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “dast tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “dast tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 260 a month (“hcl appscan”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 13 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 49,667 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 13,770 · 431 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 5,529
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 88 text, 23 image, 9 video · 38 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2024, as HCL Technologies Ltd, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 95 in the year, 25 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 47 of 58 in DAST

Segment leader

29%

OWASP ZAP

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 55 answers
Its own site cited: in 54 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on hcl-software.com

12,905

subdomains included

Content

2,233

counted in the table below

Documentation

10,000

Product · Integration

77 · 6

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	1,870	47	2026-09-29	ITSM, DAST
News or press	166	1	2026-09-01	ASPM, UEM
Report or ebook	54	1	2026-09-15	DAST
Conference or event	45	0	2026-06-08	SAST, SCA
Case study	25	1	2026-08-26	ETL
Comparison	23	4	2026-09-10	ITSM, ITAM
Glossary or explainer	18	4	2026-09-16	ITSM, DEX
Webinar or virtual event	17	0	2025-10-10
Template or tool	14	1	2026-07-07
Podcast or video	1	0	2023-08-02

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Events in person

Last twelve months

October 14, 2026 to October 15, 2026HCLSoftware Executive Summit 2026Marriott Stanton South Beach, Miami Beach, US · hosted
June 3, 2026How AI Is Changing Enterprise Data SearchSheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center, Bengaluru, India · exhibited

As the event pages on hcl-software.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page hcl-software.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name ITSM (30); 15 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as HCL AppScan

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as HCL AppScan; a claim can dispute any of them.

HCL AppScan (Standard/Enterprise) 1HCL AppScan / IBM AppScan 1

Follow HCL AppScan

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

HCL AppScan is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Scans for application vulnerabilities.
hcl-software.com
For: Security & IT Compliance
hcl-software.com
Free plan or trial: Start a free trial hcl-software.com/legal/compliance
Certifications: Leader — Application Security Testing2026 Customers’ Choice — Application Security Testing
Customers named: IpsenEdison SPAPenn Veterinary SupplyAugusta Sportswear
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, hosting

What HCL AppScan's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: hcl-software.com, hcl-software.com/dx/pricing, hcl-software.com/legal/compliance, hcl-software.com/dx/capabilities, hcl-software.com/cx/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when HCL AppScan's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as HCL AppScan, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for HCL AppScan by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where HCL AppScan is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name HCL AppScan, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.