We performed a comparison between Mend.io and ShiftLeft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."With the fix suggestions feature, not only do you get the specific trace back to where the vulnerability is within your code, but you also get fix suggestions."
"The dashboard view and the management view are most valuable."
"The most valuable features are the reporting, customizing libraries "In-house, White list, license selection", comparing the products/projects, and License & Copyright resolution."
"Our dev team uses the fix suggestions feature to quickly find the best path for remediation."
"It gives us full visibility into what we're using, what needs to be updated, and what's vulnerable, which helps us make better decisions."
"The best feature is that the Mend R&D team does their due diligence for all the vulnerabilities. In case they observe any important or critical vulnerabilities, such as the Log4j-related vulnerability, we usually get a dedicated email from our R&D team saying that this particular vulnerability has been exploited in the world, and we should definitely check our project for this and take corrective actions."
"There are multiple different integrations there. We use Mend for CI/CD that goes through Azure as well. It works seamlessly. We never have any issues with it."
"The most valuable feature is the unified JAR to scan for all langs (wss-scanner jar)."
"When it comes to ShiftLeft, the most valuable feature is definitely its ease of use and cost-effectiveness."
"Mend lets you create custom policies. They're not too complicated to set up, but it would be helpful if they had some preconfigured policies to match what we have in Azure DevOps. That would save us a lot of time. It's tedious to configure the policies manually, and I lack the capacity to do it right now. Other products have preconfigured packs and templates, and Mend doesn't."
"WhiteSource Prioritize should be expanded to cover more than Java and JavaScript."
"We have ended our relationship with WhiteSource. We were using an agent that we built in the pipeline so that you can scan the projects during build time. But unfortunately, that agent didn't work at all. We have more than 500 projects, and it doubled or tripled the build time. For other projects, we had the failure of the builds without any known reason. It was not usable at all. We spent maybe one year working on the issues to try to make it work, but it didn't in the end. We should be able to integrate it with ID and Shift Left so that the developers are able to see the scan results without waiting for the build to fail."
"I would like to have an additional compliance pack. Currently, it does not have anything for the CIS framework or the NIST framework. If we directly run a scan, and it is under the CIS framework, we can directly tell the auditor that this product is now CIS compliant."
"We specifically use this solution within our CICD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and we would like to have a gate so that if the score falls below a certain value then we can block the pipeline from running."
"The turnaround time for upgrading databases for this tool as well as the accuracy could be improved."
"Make the product available in a very stable way for other web browsers."
"I would like to see the static analysis included with the open-source version."
"Having support from senior management is crucial in making it mandatory for teams to collaborate with the security team throughout the development process."
Mend.io is ranked 5th in Application Security Tools with 29 reviews while ShiftLeft is ranked 26th in Application Security Tools with 1 review. Mend.io is rated 8.4, while ShiftLeft is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Mend.io writes "Easy to use, great for finding vulnerabilities, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ShiftLeft writes "Effectively in identify and fix bugs early in the development lifecycle". Mend.io is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Snyk, Checkmarx One and Veracode, whereas ShiftLeft is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck and Semgrep Supply Chain.
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