We performed a comparison between Black Duck and ShiftLeft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Synopsys, Snyk, Veracode and others in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)."The UI is the solution's most valuable feature since it allows for easy pipeline integration."
"The solution is stable."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"The stability is okay."
"The most valuable feature for me in Black Duck is its ability to scan binary files effectively."
"The most valuable feature of Black Duck is the seamless integration to scan our Docker binary files, it provides us all open vulnerabilities, and it ensures a reference point from where it finds the vulnerability is up to date. For example, if there is any new vulnerability found, they are immediately available in the Black Duck. There is no delay in finding the vulnerabilities, they are called out in our code immediately."
"The solution works well on Mac products."
"The cloud option of the product is always available and a positive aspect of the solution."
"When it comes to ShiftLeft, the most valuable feature is definitely its ease of use and cost-effectiveness."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in Black Duck's reporting capabilities."
"It can be cumbersome to use or invalidate open source software because there is a hold time to check requirements or common regulations to ensure compliance."
"The documentation is quite scattered."
"The solution must provide more open APIs."
"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 initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"Having support from senior management is crucial in making it mandatory for teams to collaborate with the security team throughout the development process."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 19 reviews while ShiftLeft is ranked 11th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 1 review. Black Duck is rated 7.8, while ShiftLeft is rated 10.0. 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 ShiftLeft writes "Effectively in identify and fix bugs early in the development lifecycle". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, JFrog Xray, Mend.io and Sonatype Repository Firewall, whereas ShiftLeft is most compared with SonarQube and Semgrep Supply Chain.
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