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."
"The product's most valuable features are security scan, dependency scan, and cost-effectiveness."
"The most valuable is the developer experience and the extensibility of the overall ecosystem."
"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."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution as it can handle new applications along with the analysis part."
"Dependency scanning is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its security."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"The customizations are a little bit difficult."
"There could be a centralized dashboard to view reports of all the projects on one platform."
"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."
"The deployment part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"Reporting could be improved."
"I would like configuration of a YML file to be done via UI rather than a code file."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
GitHub Advanced Security is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 6 reviews while GitLab is ranked 7th 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, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our GitHub Advanced Security vs. GitLab report.
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