HCL Software AppScan is an enterprise-grade dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution designed around real-world system workflows, making it ideal for Web and API applications that require authentication and transaction-based interactions.

AppScan simulates real user operations by sequentially executing login, transaction, and multi-step interactions while maintaining application state. This approach is especially effective for post-login, workflow-driven, and highly customized enterprise applications.

With AI and large language model (LLM) assistance, AppScan reduces false positives and improves vulnerability assessment accuracy, integrating LLM-based security testing into the existing DAST workflow. The platform also provides fully localized Chinese interfaces and report outputs, enabling organizations to use scan results directly for vulnerability prioritization, remediation tracking, and audit evidence — transforming DAST into a sustainable application security verification and governance mechanism.

• Enterprise-grade DAST for comprehensive validation of real system workflow risks
Scans follow actual user workflows, supporting multi-step logins, transaction processes, and state contexts such as tokens, headers, and sessions. This allows testing to cover post-login protected pages and critical business workflows, going beyond pre-login or static pages, better simulating real attack paths and ensuring more complete risk validation.

• High-coverage exploration balancing depth and stability
Leveraging machine learning-assisted crawling, the platform incrementally expands scan coverage without disrupting systems. It fully addresses Web, SPA, and JSON-based REST API attack surfaces, while allowing flexible adjustment of scan depth and speed to balance system stability with risk coverage.

• AI-assisted analysis with LLM-based application security testing
Through Intelligent Finding Analytics (IFA) combined with AI and LLM, vulnerability results undergo correlation and noise reduction to minimize duplicate or low-impact alerts and enhance usability. LLM application security is integrated into the existing DAST workflow, identifying risks such as Prompt Injection and data leakage, aligned with OWASP LLM Top 10, and producing auditable security assessment results.

• Localized Chinese interface and reporting, supporting audits and risk management
Provides fully localized Chinese interface and test reports, generating audit- and compliance-ready security documentation. Vulnerability details, risk impact, and remediation recommendations are clearly presented, allowing scan results to be directly integrated into risk management, audit, and governance processes.