We compared Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Black Duck excels in comprehensive code scanning and open-source software management, with positive customer service feedback. JFrog Security Essentials stands out for its outstanding customer support and advanced security features, with competitive pricing. However, Black Duck needs improvement in user interface and documentation, while JFrog should focus on UI and performance enhancements.
Features: Black Duck's valuable features include comprehensive code scanning, open source software management, real-time vulnerability alerts, customizable dashboards, and integration with development tools. JFrog Security Essentials offers comprehensive security, seamless integration, efficient vulnerability scanning, reliable artifact analysis, and proactive alert notifications.
Pricing and ROI: Black Duck's setup cost is intuitive and adaptable, with flexible pricing options. On the other hand, JFrog Security Essentials offers a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost, ensuring a smooth installation process with flexible licensing agreements., The ROI from Black Duck has been positive according to user feedback. Users found JFrog Security Essentials to be highly effective in enhancing security measures, mitigating risks, and safeguarding valuable assets.
Room for Improvement: Black Duck could benefit from improving the user interface, search functionality, performance, and documentation. JFrog Security Essentials needs enhancements for its user interface, performance, documentation, and additional features for a more robust security solution.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews suggest that there may be variations in the duration required for establishing a new tech solution, depending on the specific context. For Black Duck, one user spent three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while another user spent a week on both. As for JFrog Security Essentials, one user took three months for deployment and an extra week for setup, while another user took a week for both. These differences highlight the contrasting approaches to deployment and setup between Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials., Black Duck's customer service receives positive feedback for their efficient assistance, responsiveness, and willingness to go above and beyond. JFrog Security Essentials excels in providing outstanding customer service with promptness, professionalism, and going the extra mile to resolve issues.
The summary above is based on 12 interviews we conducted recently with Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"We accidentally use third-party library APIs, which may not be secure. Our technical team may not have the end time or expertise to figure it out. Black Duck helps us with that and saves us time."
"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."
"Policy management is a valuable feature."
"The installation is very easy."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"The product enables other applications to be secure."
"If multiple dependencies and vulnerabilities are found in a project, JFrog Xray is intelligent enough to tell you which vulnerability to target first."
"The most valuable feature of JFrog Xray is the display of the entire internal dependencies hierarchy."
"JFrog Xray shows us a list of vulnerabilities that can impact our code."
"I would say that this solution has helped our organization by allowing us to automate a lot of the processes."
"JFrog Xray's reporting feature has a lot of options in it, including scanning."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Good reporting functionalities."
"The initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"We're not too sure about the extension of the firewall. It never shows up in the Hub."
"The documentation is quite scattered."
"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."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"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 tool needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"Since we have been using the solution via APIs, there are some limitations in the APIs."
"Lacks deeper reporting, the ability to compare things."
"JFrog Xray does not have a dashboard."
"I think that the user interface should be expanded to provide customers with a better dashboard for reviewing their feedback regarding their images and the vulnerabilities that are associated with the images."
"JFrog Xray's documentation and error logging could be improved."
"The speed of JFrog Xray should improve. Other solutions have better performance."
"Reporting is crucial, but it is lacking in the current tool. Every organization seeks specific data points rather than general information. Therefore, we require customized reports from the Xray tool."
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Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 16 reviews while JFrog Xray is ranked 7th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 7 reviews. Black Duck is rated 7.8, while JFrog Xray is rated 8.2. 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 JFrog Xray writes "An intelligent solution that prioritizes which vulnerability to target first in your project". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, Mend.io, FOSSA and Checkmarx Software Composition Analysis, whereas JFrog Xray is most compared with Snyk, Veracode, Mend.io, Fortify Static Code Analyzer and Sonatype Repository Firewall. See our Black Duck vs. JFrog Xray report.
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