We performed a comparison between Black Duck and Veracode 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."
"It highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"The installation is very easy."
"The stability is okay."
"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 UI is the solution's most valuable feature since it allows for easy pipeline integration."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"To me, the principal feature is the CLI (command-line interface) because I put together a lot of implementations using it. Another important aspect is the low false-positive rate because the solution is very configurable. It is as low as 1 percent and that is a huge difference compared to competitors."
"We use it to get our scan results and see where our software is vulnerable or not vulnerable."
"Veracode's integration with our continuous integration solution is what I've found to be the most valuable feature. It is easy to connect the two and to run scans in an automated way without needing as much manual intervention."
"Being able to scan our applications and identify all codes and defects is an extremely valuable feature."
"Veracode supports a broad range of code technologies, and it can analyze large applications. Fortify takes a long time and may not be able to generate the report for larger applications. We don't have these constraints with Veracode."
"When we do have errors, Veracode is always available, their consultants, to help us either mitigate the error, or provide technical assistance on pointing exactly where the problem is and how we could probably fix it. I'm always amazed at how knowledgeable they are."
"Wide range of platforms and technology assessments."
"The Veracode support team is excellent."
"Due to the fact that, with our software developer life cycle, we don't need to scan our source code every day or every week. For that reason, we find the cost is too high. We might only actually use it five to ten times a year, which makes it expensive."
"The solution must provide more open APIs."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"The solution's pricing model and documentation areas of concern where improvement is needed."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions, such as IntelliJ IDEA."
"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 needs to be more user-friendly for developers and in general, to ensure compliance."
"The initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"To be able to upload source codes without being compiled. That’s one feature that drives us to see other sources."
"It can have more APIs and capabilities to handle other things well. We were doing a trial for it. There were two things that I looked at: one was uploading some Java-related content and the other was uploading database SQL files and having the review done on the quarterback. The Java portion of it worked fine, and it was pretty seamless, but the database portion was not. We uploaded some files to use for vulnerabilities, and the tell-all portion of it was pretty easy. We uploaded a war file and Java files, and we got the reports back on these. They were pretty clear to understand. We did the same thing for the database portion for the most part. However, the content wasn't getting uploaded in a predictable fashion, and it was slow and hard to get done. We had to do it over and over. After it indicated that the content was uploaded, there were no results. There were zero search findings. It was possibly a user error, something that we didn't do correctly, but they had acknowledged that it was something they were currently enhancing. This is something that could be made easier if they haven't already done that. I don't know how many releases they've had in that timeframe. I haven't looked at it since then. It was a trial period."
"It's very expensive for a small organization."
"Veracode does not support scans for .NET Blazor server applications."
"The scanning on the UI portion of our applications is straightforward, but folks were having challenges with scans that involved microservices. They had to rope in an expert to have it sorted."
"The only areas that I'm concerned with are some of the newer code libraries, things that we're starting to see people dabble with. They move quickly enough to get them into the Analysis Engine, so I wouldn't even say it is a complaint. It is probably the only thing I worry about: Occasionally hitting something that is built in some other obscure development model, where we either can't scan it or can't scan it very well."
"The language version support could be improved."
"I think if they could improve the operations around accepted vulnerabilities, we would see improvements in our productivity."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 16 reviews while Veracode is ranked 3rd in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 194 reviews. Black Duck is rated 7.8, while Veracode 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 Veracode writes "Helps to reduce false positives and prevent vulnerable code from entering production, but does not support incremental scanning ". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, JFrog Xray, Mend.io and Polaris Software Integrity Platform, whereas Veracode is most compared with SonarQube, Checkmarx One, Snyk, Fortify on Demand and HCL AppScan. See our Black Duck vs. Veracode report.
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