We performed a comparison between GitHub Advanced Security and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It ensures user passwords or sensitive information are not accidentally exposed in code or reports."
"Dependency scanning is a valuable feature."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution as it can handle new applications along with the analysis part."
"The most valuable is the developer experience and the extensibility of the overall ecosystem."
"The product's most valuable features are security scan, dependency scan, and cost-effectiveness."
"GitHub provides advanced security, which is why the customers choose this tool; it allows them to rely solely on GitHub as one platform for everything they need."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"The solution is stable."
"It is scalable."
"I have found the most valuable feature is security control. I also like the branching and cloning software."
"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"A more refined approach, categorizing and emphasizing specific vulnerabilities, would be beneficial."
"The report limitations are the main issue."
"There could be DST features included in the product."
"There could be a centralized dashboard to view reports of all the projects on one platform."
"The deployment part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"The customizations are a little bit difficult."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"I'm new to GitLab, so I would appreciate more documentation about the code and commands."
"The integration could be slightly better."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
GitHub Advanced Security is ranked 16th in Application Security Tools with 6 reviews while GitLab is ranked 6th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews. GitHub Advanced Security is rated 9.0, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitHub Advanced Security writes "A tool that provides ease of integration with the set of existing codes in an infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". GitHub Advanced Security is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Fortify on Demand and GitGuardian Platform, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our GitHub Advanced Security vs. GitLab report.
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