Top 3 Tech Leaders in Application Security Testing (AST) 2023
Discover the leading technology solutions in Application Security Testing (AST) with PeerSpot's annual Tech Leaders awards. The awards are based on comprehensive user reviews and other criteria as outlined below, offering you a window into the top products in this category and a way to explore and compare outstanding products. Join us as we unveil the Peerspot 2023 Tech Leader award winners, helping you stay informed about the best-in-class solutions available.
Application Security Testing (AST) solutions encompass a range of technologies designed to identify vulnerabilities and security weaknesses within software applications. They play an important role in the software development life cycle by automating the detection of security flaws, such as code vulnerabilities, configuration errors, and authentication weaknesses. Flagging these issues so that teams can address them helps reduce the risk of data breaches and ensure compliance with security standards and regulations.
The Award Winners
SonarQube
SonarQube focuses on code quality and security. It scans source code to identify bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells, to help developers maintain high-quality, secure code throughout the software development lifecycle. SonarQube also offers automated code analysis and continuous inspection. In addition, it supports various programming languages and integrates into popular DevOps and CI/CD pipelines. SonarQube can significantly reduce post-production security incidents and maintenance costs while improving the efficiency of development teams.
"I like that it's easy to navigate not just in terms of code findings but you can actually see them in the context of your source code because it gives you a copy of your code with the items that it found and highlights them." - reviewer841284, Lead Engineer, Healthcare Company
"One of the most valuable features of SonarQube is its ability to detect code quality during development. There are rules that define various technologies—Java, C#, Python, everything... everything is detectable during the time of development and continuous integration, which is an advantage." - Raja Reddy, Manager, Kellton
"My focus is mainly on the DevOps pipeline side of things, and from my perspective, the ease of use and configuration is valuable. It is pretty straightforward to take a deployment pipeline or CI/CD pipeline and integrate SonarQube into it." - reviewer1078050, Staff DevOps Specialist, Computer Software Company
Veracode
Veracode offers static, dynamic, and software composition analysis to identify vulnerabilities and security flaws in applications. In addition to scanning, it provides actionable insights to remediate problems efficiently and supports multiple programming languages, including those used in modern web and mobile applications. Additionally, Veracode's cloud-based platform helps ease deployment, reducing the burden on infrastructure teams and fostering a security-first approach throughout the software development lifecycle. Organizations use Veracode for its ability to scale across different development environments, developer-friendly security guidance, and help in facilitating compliance with industry standards like OWASP and PCI DSS.
"Veracode certainly provides a quick and intuitive way to understand the results, to see the context of them, and to identify what we need to do to address them. In general, it's a pretty quick way to get the information that we need in the most useful way possible." - Stephen Pack, Software Development Program Leader, Vendavo
"Veracode's tool scans every single library and gives a dashboard showing the number of libraries, high and low criticality issues, and whether a product has any issues. It helps us assess the libraries and decide whether to resolve the issues or replace the library to minimize risks." - Pradeep Honaganahalli Basavaraju, ML Engineer, Consultancy
"Veracode's integration with our continuous integration solution is what I've found to be the most valuable feature. It is easy to connect the two and to run scans in an automated way without needing as much manual intervention." - Zach Handzlik, Release Manager/Scrum Master, Amtech Software
GitLab
GitLab offers a robust Application Security Testing solution integrated into its DevOps platform. The solution provides continuous security assessments throughout the software development lifecycle. It supports static and dynamic application security testing as well as container scanning, helping identify and remediate vulnerabilities early in the development process. Its built-in Kubernetes integration simplifies container orchestration and further enhances application security through infrastructure-as-code practices. GitLab integrates smoothly into the development pipeline, enabling DevSecOps practices, and provides an extensive library of security templates and compliance standards for streamlined compliance. Its commitment to open-source principles means that its community edition offers an effective AST toolset for organizations with limited budgets.
"The best part of the solution is it's a single platform, and this platform can help you do your required management, your source code management, your build management, your test management, artifact management, deployment management, et cetera." - reviewer1735587, Delivery Head - DevOps, Tech Services Company
"The CI/CD functionality as a whole is pretty helpful and nice to have. Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective." - Anton Makarevich, DevOps/Cloud Lead
"We like the automatic deployment for different environments. For example, if you want to deploy your application for the Azure system, Azure Cloud, you have the default configuration for them. That's true for Amazon or a VM, for example, as well." - Javad_Talebi, Software Developer, Vodafon
How Award Winners Are Determined
PeerSpot Tech Leaders Awards recognize the top products in a category based on real users' in-depth reviews, which are verified for authenticity. The ranking criteria include the number of reviews, views, and comparisons of each product, as well as the overall reviewer rating and the word count per review. The winning products are acknowledged as top performers within their category.
Summary
The Tech Leaders award is PeerSpot's most prestigious. Recipients have earned the esteem of industry professionals who use and review the products and compare them with their competition. Application Security Testing (AST) solutions proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in software applications, safeguarding against cyber threats and ensuring the security and reliability of digital assets, and the award winners, SonarQube, Veracode, and
GitLab have merited peer recognition as Tech Leaders in this category.
