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)."Black Duck is pretty extensive in terms of the scan reserves and the vulnerability exposures. From that perspective, I'm happy with it."
"It is able to drill down to the source level."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"It highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"When it comes to ShiftLeft, the most valuable feature is definitely its ease of use and cost-effectiveness."
"It needs to be more user-friendly for developers and in general, to ensure compliance."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"We're not too sure about the extension of the firewall. It never shows up in the Hub."
"The documentation is quite scattered."
"The initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"The product's pricing is higher compared to other competitor products."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"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."
"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 16 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 and Mend.io, whereas ShiftLeft is most compared with SonarQube and Semgrep Supply Chain.
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