We compared Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Black Duck excels in comprehensive code scanning and open-source software management, with positive customer service feedback. JFrog Security Essentials stands out for its outstanding customer support and advanced security features, with competitive pricing. However, Black Duck needs improvement in user interface and documentation, while JFrog should focus on UI and performance enhancements.
Features: Black Duck's valuable features include comprehensive code scanning, open source software management, real-time vulnerability alerts, customizable dashboards, and integration with development tools. JFrog Security Essentials offers comprehensive security, seamless integration, efficient vulnerability scanning, reliable artifact analysis, and proactive alert notifications.
Pricing and ROI: Black Duck's setup cost is intuitive and adaptable, with flexible pricing options. On the other hand, JFrog Security Essentials offers a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost, ensuring a smooth installation process with flexible licensing agreements., The ROI from Black Duck has been positive according to user feedback. Users found JFrog Security Essentials to be highly effective in enhancing security measures, mitigating risks, and safeguarding valuable assets.
Room for Improvement: Black Duck could benefit from improving the user interface, search functionality, performance, and documentation. JFrog Security Essentials needs enhancements for its user interface, performance, documentation, and additional features for a more robust security solution.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews suggest that there may be variations in the duration required for establishing a new tech solution, depending on the specific context. For Black Duck, one user spent three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while another user spent a week on both. As for JFrog Security Essentials, one user took three months for deployment and an extra week for setup, while another user took a week for both. These differences highlight the contrasting approaches to deployment and setup between Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials., Black Duck's customer service receives positive feedback for their efficient assistance, responsiveness, and willingness to go above and beyond. JFrog Security Essentials excels in providing outstanding customer service with promptness, professionalism, and going the extra mile to resolve issues.
The summary above is based on 12 interviews we conducted recently with Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"We accidentally use third-party library APIs, which may not be secure. Our technical team may not have the end time or expertise to figure it out. Black Duck helps us with that and saves us time."
"The product enables other applications to be secure."
"The solution works well on Mac products."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"It highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"It is able to drill down to the source level."
"The installation is very easy."
"We didn't have a central inventory to quickly identify issues or determine how many products were affected. Now under Black Duck, it's all consolidated. You search for a component and immediately see which products use it."
"The most valuable feature of JFrog Xray is the display of the entire internal dependencies hierarchy."
"If multiple dependencies and vulnerabilities are found in a project, JFrog Xray is intelligent enough to tell you which vulnerability to target first."
"JFrog Xray's reporting feature has a lot of options in it, including scanning."
"JFrog Xray shows us a list of vulnerabilities that can impact our code."
"I would say that this solution has helped our organization by allowing us to automate a lot of the processes."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Good reporting functionalities."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions, such as IntelliJ IDEA."
"The documentation is quite scattered."
"They are giving a lot of APIs and Python scripts for certain functionalities, but instead of using APIs and Python scripts, they should provide these functionalities through the UI. Users should be able to customize and add more fields through the UI. Users should be able to add more fields and generate reports. Currently, they are not giving flexibility in the UI. They're providing a script that simply generates an Excel file or CSV file. There is no flexibility."
"The product's pricing is higher compared to other competitor products."
"It is a cloud-only solution. In many cases, companies like to evaluate the software, but they're very reluctant to give you the software. It would be great if they could offer an on-prem component that could be used to scan the code and then upload the discovery results to the cloud and get all the information from there, but there is no such possibility. You have to upload the code to the Black Duck cloud system. Of course, they have a strong legal department, and they offer some configuration, but it is never enough. You have to give the code, which is a drawback. In modern designs like Snyk or FOSSA, you don't need to give the code. It requires more native integration with Coverity because they go together technically. You need both Coverity and Black Duck Hub. It would be really helpful for companies working in this space to get a combined offer from the same company. They should provide an option to buy Coverity for an additional fee. Coverity combined with Black Duck Hub will provide a one-step analysis to get everything you need and a unified report. It would be really great to be able to connect Black Duck Hub with Coverity unified reports."
"It's still a bit inconsistent. For example, if I scan today, it might not show the same results tomorrow."
"The solution must provide more open APIs."
"The speed of JFrog Xray should improve. Other solutions have better performance."
"JFrog Xray's documentation and error logging could be improved."
"Since we have been using the solution via APIs, there are some limitations in the APIs."
"JFrog Xray does not have a dashboard."
"Lacks deeper reporting, the ability to compare things."
"I think that the user interface should be expanded to provide customers with a better dashboard for reviewing their feedback regarding their images and the vulnerabilities that are associated with the images."
"Reporting is crucial, but it is lacking in the current tool. Every organization seeks specific data points rather than general information. Therefore, we require customized reports from the Xray tool."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 19 reviews while JFrog Xray is ranked 7th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 7 reviews. Black Duck is rated 7.8, while JFrog Xray is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Black Duck writes "Enables applications to be secure, but it must provide more open APIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JFrog Xray writes "An intelligent solution that prioritizes which vulnerability to target first in your project". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, Mend.io, FOSSA and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas JFrog Xray is most compared with Snyk, Mend.io, Veracode, Trivy and Fortify Static Code Analyzer. See our Black Duck vs. JFrog Xray report.
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