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We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Assess and Fortify Software Security Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"I am impressed with the product's identification of alerts and vulnerabilities.""By far, the thing that was able to provide value was the immediate response while testing ahead of release, in real-time.""When we access the application, it continuously monitors and detects vulnerabilities.""Assess has an excellent API interface to pull APIs.""The accuracy of the solution in identifying vulnerabilities is better than any other product we've used, far and away. In our internal comparisons among different tools, Contrast consistently finds more impactful vulnerabilities, and also identifies vulnerabilities that are nearly guaranteed to be there, meaning that the chance of false positives is very low.""No other tool does the runtime scanning like Contrast does. Other static analysis tools do static scanning, but Contrast is runtime analysis, when the routes are exercised. That's when the scan happens. This is a tool that has a very unique capability compared to other tools. That's what I like most about Contrast, that it's runtime.""This has changed the way that developers are looking at usage of third-party libraries, upfront. It's changing our model of development and our culture of development to ensure that there is more thought being put into the usage of third-party libraries.""We use the Contrast OSS feature that allows us to look at third-party, open-source software libraries, because it has a cool interface where you can look at all the different libraries. It has some really cool additional features where it gives us how many instances in which something has been used... It tells us it has been used 10 times out of 20 workloads, for example. Then we know for sure that OSS is being used."

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"The reporting is very useful because you can always view an entire list of the issues that you have.""You can easily download the tool's rule packs and update them.""This is a stable solution at the end of the day."

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Cons
"The out-of-the-box reporting could be improved. We need to write our own APIs to make the reporting more robust.""The solution needs to improve flexibility...The scalability of the product is a problem in the solution, especially from a commercial perspective.""Personalization of the board and how to make it appealing to an organization is something that could be done on their end. The reports could be adaptable to the customer's preferences.""I would like to see them come up with more scanning rules.""Contrast's ability to support upgrades on the actual agents that get deployed is limited. Our environment is pretty much entirely Java. There are no updates associated with that. You have to actually download a new version of the .jar file and push that out to your servers where your app is hosted. That can be quite cumbersome from a change-management perspective.""To instrument an agent, it has to be running on a type of application technology that the agent recognizes and understands. It's excellent when it works. If we're using an application that is using an unsupported technology, then we can't instrument it at all. We do use PHP and Contrast presently doesn't support that, although it's on their roadmap. My primary hurdle is that it doesn't support all of the technologies that we use.""Contrast Security Assess covers a wide range of applications like .NET Framework, Java, PSP, Node.js, etc. But there are some like Ubuntu and the .NET Core which are not covered. They have it in their roadmap to have these agents. If they have that, we will have complete coverage.""I think there was activity underway to support the centralized configuration control. There are ways to do it, but I think they were productizing more of that."

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"This solution is difficult to implement, and it should be made more comfortable for the end-users.""We are having issues with false positives that need to be resolved.""Fortify Software Security Center's setup is really painful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I like the per-application licensing model... We just license the app and we look at different vulnerabilities on that app and we remediate within the app. It's simpler."
  • "You only get one license for an application. Ours are very big, monolithic applications with millions of lines of code. We were able to apply one license to one monolithic application, which is great. We are happy with the licensing. Pricing-wise, they are industry-standard, which is fine."
  • "The good news is that the agent itself comes in two different forms: the unlicensed form and the licensed form. Unlicensed gives use of that software composition analysis for free. Thereafter, if you apply a license to that same agent, that's when the instrumentation takes hold. So one of my suggestions is to do what we're doing: Deploy the agent to as many applications as possible, with just the SCA feature turned on with no license applied, and then you can be more choosy and pick which teams will get the license applied."
  • "For what it offers, it's a very reasonable cost. The way that it is priced is extremely straightforward. It works on the number of applications that you use, and you license a server. It is something that is extremely fair, because it doesn't take into consideration the number of requests, etc. It is only priced based on the number of onboarded applications. It suits our model as well, because we have huge traffic. Our number of applications is not that large, so the pricing works great for us."
  • "It's a tiered licensing model. The more you buy, as you cross certain quantity thresholds, the pricing changes. If you have a smaller environment, your licensing costs are going to be different than a larger environment... The licensing is primarily per application. An application can be as many agents as you need. If you've got 10 development servers and 20 production servers and 50 QA servers, all of those agents can be reporting as a single application that utilizes one license."
  • "The product's pricing is low. I would rate it a two out of ten."
  • "The solution is expensive."
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  • "This is a costly solution that could be cheaper."
  • "The solution is priced fair."
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    Top Answer:When we access the application, it continuously monitors and detects vulnerabilities.
    Top Answer:The product's pricing is low. I would rate it a two out of ten.
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    Also Known As
    Contrast Assess
    Micro Focus Software Security Center, Application Security Center, HPE Application Security Center, WebInspect
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    Overview

    Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of security technology that enables software applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks, heralding the new era of self-protecting software. Contrast's patented deep security instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate assessment and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio, without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has sensors that work actively inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure the entire enterprise from development, to operations, to production.

    Software Security Center enables management, development, and security teams to work together to triage, track, validate, automate, and manage software security activities.
    Sample Customers
    Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.
    Neosecure, Acxiom, Skandinavisk Data Center A/S, Parkeon
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Insurance Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Government11%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Company Size
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise55%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise75%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Contrast Security Assess is ranked 22nd in Application Security Testing (AST) with 11 reviews while Fortify Software Security Center is ranked 27th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 3 reviews. Contrast Security Assess is rated 8.8, while Fortify Software Security Center is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Assess writes "We're gathering vulnerability data from multiple environments in real time, fundamentally changing how we identify issues in applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortify Software Security Center writes "A fair-priced solution that helps with application security testing ". Contrast Security Assess is most compared with Veracode, Fortify WebInspect, Seeker, Checkmarx and OWASP Zap, whereas Fortify Software Security Center is most compared with Fortify on Demand, Tricentis Tosca and Fortify WebInspect.

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