We performed a comparison between Black Duck and CAST Highlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is able to drill down to the source level."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"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 product enables other applications to be secure."
"The stability is okay."
"The knowledge base and the management system are the most valuable features of Black Duck Hub. It has a very helpful management environment. They offer an editor where we can check the discovered license, which is retrieved from their knowledge base. They have a huge knowledge base build over the years. It gives you some possibilities, such as this license with possibility A could cause a vulnerability issue or a potential breach."
"It highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"The most valuable feature for me in Black Duck is its ability to scan binary files effectively."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."
"It offers good performance."
"The product's pricing is higher compared to other competitor products."
"We have been having some issues with the latest releases where we are not able to scan our applications with the help of Black Duck."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"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."
"Black Duck can improve the time it takes for a scan. Most of the time it's not ideal when integrated with the live DevSecOps pipeline. We have to create a separate job to scan the library because it takes a couple of hours to scan all those libraries. The scanning could be faster."
"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 solution must provide more open APIs."
"The solution's pricing model and documentation areas of concern where improvement is needed."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 19 reviews while CAST Highlight is ranked 13th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews. Black Duck is rated 7.8, while CAST Highlight is rated 7.8. 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 CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, JFrog Xray, Mend.io and Debricked Security, whereas CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Checkmarx One and Sonatype Lifecycle. See our Black Duck vs. CAST Highlight report.
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