How does HCL AppScan help you to achieve business continuity?

In today’s always-on digital environment, business continuity depends on the reliability, resilience, and security of the software driving critical services. HCL AppScan plays a crucial role in helping enterprises prevent disruptions and maintain operational stability through a security-first approach. Here’s how:

1. Minimizing Security Disruptions

Unresolved vulnerabilities can lead to breaches, data leaks, service downtime, reputational damage, or costly regulatory fines. AppScan helps prevent these outcomes by:

• Catching critical vulnerabilities early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), well before deployment.

• Supporting Shift Left practices with IDE integrations, developer-focused remediation, and pre-build scanning.

• supporting Shift everywhere practice with various integration with IDE, SCM, CI/CD, etc., to conduct security testing anywhere and dealing with the issues any time.

• Preventing late-stage discoveries that often delay releases or introduce emergency patches.

2. Faster and Smarter Remediation

Security backlogs grow when developers struggle to understand or prioritize vulnerabilities. AppScan reduces this burden by:

• Automatically identifying and flagging issues with detailed remediation guidance.

• Providing language-specific fix recommendations, so developers see exactly how to fix the problem in their coding language.

• Accelerating secure code delivery without slowing down development cycles.

3. Reducing Human Error

Manual fixes — even by experienced developers — are prone to mistakes, incomplete patches, or inconsistent remediation across codebases. AppScan helps by:

• Offering auto-fix features for definitive findings with high confidence.

• Ensuring that patches are consistently applied across similar vulnerabilities.

• Helping prevent regressions or new issues introduced by manual remediation.

4. Cross-Technology Visibility

Enterprise software stacks are rarely uniform — they span multiple languages, frameworks, and platforms. AppScan supports this complexity by:

• Offering broad language coverage, including Java, .NET, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and more.

• Delivering API-level guidance and contextual help aligned with the language and framework used.

• Making remediation scalable across polyglot environments.

5. Operational Efficiency

AppScan is built to support fast-moving DevSecOps teams. It enhances team efficiency by:

• Enabling the Fix Group Recommendation feature, which allows related vulnerabilities to be remediated in bulk.

• Reducing context switching with actionable insights directly in IDEs and CI/CD workflows.

• Allowing security teams to do more with fewer resources while boosting sprint velocity and time-to-market.

6. Enhanced Prioritization via Correlation

One of the most powerful aspects of AppScan is its ability to reduce noise and focus on what matters most. It does this by:

• Correlating results from SAST, DAST, IAST, and (in other AppScan editions) SCA.

• Identifying which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable rather than just theoretical risks.

• Giving teams a clear, risk-based path to prioritize remediation efforts.

• Dramatically reducing false positives, saving teams time, and boosting confidence in remediation strategies.

Whether you're defending a banking app in Singapore, scaling digital platforms in Korea, or modernizing public services across ASEAN, AppScan is designed to protect the software backbone of your business.

After years of exploiting flaws and now years of helping defend against them, one truth stands: visibility and response speed are everything.

HCL AppScan Enterprise is more than just a scanner; it’s a platform that helps security teams and developers work together to secure the software that powers the business. From my perspective, blending offensive, defensive, and development knowledge, it delivers the automation, intelligence, and integration needed to drive real change.

If you’re managing critical apps in Korea, digital services in ASEAN, or cloud-native microservices across APAC, AppScan gives you the edge you need to defend at scale, comply with confidence, and innovate securely.

HCLSoftware Timothy Chan Jew Kok (JK) Lim Seemant Chawla Veree Tantianunanont Vu Luu (Luu Danh Anh Vu) Ekant Chadda Randeep Chhabra Mark Kovacik Matthew Burns Kevin Chia Yasuhito Mori, CISSP, CEH Irene Chan Anthony LAI Anthony Lim Jia(Esther) Song Rahul Pandey Ky Young Kim

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