Fortify on Demand Reviews

I use the solution to check the software, as the development is done internally, to detect any security breaches. If there is something in the code that could lead to SQL injections or other vulnerabilities, it will be detected.

The most valuable features are the detailed reporting and the ability to set up deep scanning of the software, both of which are in the same place.

There are many false positives identified by the solution. Perhaps this could be improved by refining the defects. There are numerous defects and I need to identify the underlying cause for many of them.

I have been using the solution for a couple of years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have ten people within our IT department that use the solution.

I used technical support during the integration between Fortify and ALM, but the support staff was not adequately prepared to assist me. I identified that there is a need for development between Fortify on Demand and ALM.net. They initially said that it was working with ALM, but after reading the documentation, I discovered that it only works with Octane, not with ALM.net.

The initial setup was not straightforward because I had the ALM.net, not the .com version, and Fortify on Demand was configured to be integrated with ALM.com, not with ALM.net. This caused me some issues with the integration. When I scanned and identified the defects, these were not automatically raised in ALM, which was a major problem for me. I understood that they needed to do some development in order to make it work with ALM.net. The deployment took no more than one business day.

I believe the rental license is not too expensive, but it provides a lot of information about the vulnerabilities.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

I recommend the solution to others.

We use it as the source for code review for static code analysis.

The user interface is good.

There are lots of limitations with code technology. It cannot scan .net properly either.

I've been using it for the last five to six years.

The initial setup of this solution on-premises is easy; however, we have had difficulties installing it online in our clients' environments.

We used both in-house and vendor teams for deployment.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Micro Focus Fortify on Demand at five because we get better scan results from other tools.

We're implementing DevSecOps in Fortify only a part of the big picture. We are implementing the entire secure development lifecycle.

The solution saves us a lot of money. We're trying to reduce exposure and costs related to remediation.

There's a bit of a learning curve. Our development team is struggling with following the rules and following the new processes.

The initial setup is a bit complex.

We could have more detailed documentation. They could offer some quick start or some extra guidance regarding the implementation.

I'd like to see more interactive application security And more IDE integration and integration with VS Code and Eclipse. I would like to see more features of this kind.

I've used this solution over the last 12 months at least.

The solution is stable. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches.

We haven't tried to scale the solution just yet. As we didn't take the SaaS solution, scalability may be limited for us. I'm unsure. I can't really comment on that.

Currently, we have about 20 people on the development team.

Right now, we don't plan to increase usage.

The technical support is fine, however, it would be very helpful, especially during implementation, if there was more documentation and help surrounding setup.

We did not use a different solution previously. Before we had this solution, we were just evaluating other solutions and looking at the costs, and trying to bring in something newer, like an integrated automated secure stack, or something like that.

We found that the initial setup a bit complex. It's not exactly straightforward. For a newbie, there's a learning curve, and that can slow things down a bit.

Our deployment took about three to four months.

We only deployed in our company and we didn't use a consultant or integrator. We handled it completely in-house.

At this time, I don't have an answer on the return of investment. As far as I can see, it's necessary. If we got exposed or had a data leak it would cost the company dearly. With that in mind, while I can see there's an ROI, I can't provide an exact number.

We pay for licensing. We do pay an extra cost for implementing the infrastructure into the cloud. 

I've briefly looked at Kiuwan and compared it to this solution. We also looked at Veracode.

We're just a customer and we offer consulting services.

We are bringing up all the infrastructure inside GCP. It's not ready yet, and we're still implementing it. We're going to bring it up next week, probably, in terms of the infrastructure. We'll perform the SSC installation, install the controller and sensors.

The most important thing a company needs to do is to pay attention to the license calculation. They need to know how many licenses are going to be used. They need to understand the Micro Focus offer. That way, you won't be charged if you have surpassed the application limit. This is very important. That's something we faced in the past that caused a lot of problems. We needed to estimate the sizing correctly of the infrastructure. Doing that will bring value to the builds and deployments. Otherwise, you're going to spend a lot of time doing the scanning, and the developers will be very mad.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. It's the best on the market for me.

The HP FoD effort allowed my client to utilize this service anytime their internal IT team was overwhelmed with workloads. FoD gives them an option to utilize the additional HP Services when they are overwhelmed with other IT Security needs across the company.

• The ability to utilize the Client Portal, which provided my clients with a view of the project status, vulnerabilities and needed remediation steps in real-time
• I don’t know of any other On-Demand enterprise solution like this one where we can load the details and within a few days, receive the results of intrusion attacks, and work with HP Security Experts when needed for clarification
• The process was easy to follow and we were supported by 24/7 by TAM personnel to help with any fire drills. This was helpful many times when I needed a quick answer late at night or early in the morning

• I believe that sales packages should be posted for single applications, and packages of multiple applications. For example, we have one-time a package for single applications, and 12 month unlimited use for static and a package for static & dynamic testing. It would be nice to see packages posted for a single application, and groups of three, five, or 10 applications. More than 10 applications would need to be custom pricing like you have today.
• I would like it to be easier to understand, and have better packaged reporting capabilities. For most of the reporting I needed, I exported to Excel and then had to produce more visually accepted reports for Executive Clients. With Rapid7 I utilized its reporting capabilities to deliver Client Reports within just a few minutes of checking the data. I believe that HP’s FoD Clients could sell more services to clients if HP put more effort into delivering visually pleasing reporting capabilities.

Because the product is based on HP’s Fortify Platform, the product is great.

I can’t answer this question appropriately yet as I only utilized the service for one application so far.

Customer Service:

10/10 - Christine Bobba, Gerald and the whole TAM Team were very supportive. Stuart Ward does a great job running his TAM Team focused on customer service.

Technical Support:

Jason Powell was really support from a technical perspective. He was able to quickly gather the details we needed to resolve security issues with the code or set up.

I’ve used Rapid7 and Qualys Security Solutions in Managed Service Environments for previous clients. Both are really good solutions, but I’ve not utilized any other On-Demand Solution.

I switched because my client uses HP as its core product set. I needed to use Fortify and the FoD Solution allowed me to be up and running within a few short days.

Super easy deployment and usage of the scanning capabilities. The setup was straightforward, and the ability to enter data and start the correct scan was intuitive.

We did not charge for the product, we charged for our PMO Services to run the product.

We used the one-time application, Security Scan Dynamic. I believe the original fee was $8,000.

I would suggest, and I have, that companies should utilize the 12 month unlimited test package.

I searched online and FoD allowed me the best opportunity for success due to my client’s timeline.

Our use case of Fortify is for the more than 200 applications that we need to certify as a security team. We certify them for all possible vulnerabilities using Micro Focus to check codes for vulnerabilities and then deploying to a reproduction environment. Once all the vulnerabilities are fixed, we can proceed to production. So we're using it as a kind of DevSecOps model. We are customers of Micro Focus. 

To my mind, the best features of this product are its speed and efficiency. It covers a wide variety of languages and even has an option for checking different Java versions.

Micro Focus is a bit heavy on resources and uses up a lot of my RAM. My machine tends to slow down when I use it. A beneficial additional feature would be scanning executable files. Currently, it scans the uncompiled code only. I'd also like to see support for additional languages and support for scanning libraries whether they're outdated or not. The solution scans for security vulnerabilities but not for outdated versions or policy violations.

I've been using this solution for eight months. 

This is a stable product. 

Scalability is lacking in the sense that I cannot run multiple scans at once. It only accepts one scan at a time. On the other hand, if I want to scan two 3GB programs, it will handle that.

We've only contacted customer support once when we had a problem with an update. They were helpful and resolved the issue. 

Positive

The initial setup is moderately complex and takes a couple of hours. We have 20 users who are developers and ops staff. 

We carried out a POC on multiple products and Fortify came out on top.

If you're a beginner, give Fortify a go. If you're a professional, it might be worth looking at other tools because Fortify does have limitations when it comes to scalability and executable codes.

We are using it for application security testing. We have microservices and applications within the organization, and the testing is being done on a continuous basis right through the development cycle or the development chain.

We are using its latest version. It is deployed on the cloud and on-premises.

It is a very easy tool for developers to use in parallel while they're doing the coding. It does auto scanning as we are progressing with the CI/CD pipeline. It has got very simple and efficient API support.

It is an extremely robust, scalable, and stable solution.

It enhance the quality of code all along the CI/CD pipeline from a security standpoint and enables developers to deliver secure code right from the initial stages.

It does scanning for all virtual machines and other things, but it doesn't do the scanning for containers. It currently lacks the ability to do the scanning on containers. We're asking their product management team to expand this capability to containers.

It doesn't do software composition analysis. We've asked their product management team to look into that as well.

We want a user-based control and role-based access for developers. We want to give limited access to developers so that it only pertains to the code that they write and scanning of the codes for any vulnerabilities as they're progressing with writing the code. As of now, the interface to give restricted access to the developers is not the best. It gives them more access than what is basically required, but we don't want over-provisioning and over-access.

I have been using this solution for four years.

It is very stable. 

It is very scalable.

Their tech support is absolutely outstanding. Their tech support is the most responsive tech support I've ever seen.

It is very straightforward to set up. You can set it up in minutes.

If somebody wants to shift left or integrate security early on in the CI/CD pipeline from a DevOps standpoint, this is probably one of the best tools available.

I would rate Micro Focus Fortify on Demand a nine out of 10. There are three areas for improvement. Once they improve it in those areas, then it would be 10 out of 10.

Micro Focus Fortify on Demand can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

We are mainly using Micro Focus Fortify on Demand for security.

While using Micro Focus Fortify on Demand we have been very happy with the results and findings.

Micro Focus Fortify on Demand could improve the reports. They could benefit from being more user-friendly and intuitive.

I have been using Micro Focus Fortify on Demand for approximately five years.

The stability of Micro Focus Fortify on Demand is good. I did not face any problems. If we had 100 products then we would have many teams using it.

We have some expansion plans and once that falls in place may increase the number of users using Micro Focus Fortify on Demand.

Micro Focus Fortify on Demand is scalable. Our product team was using the solution but not all of them

We did not need to contact support because we did not have any problems.

We have used many different solutions five years ago.

Micro Focus Fortify on Demand was implemented and managed by our IT team.

Micro Focus Fortify on Demand licenses are managed by our IT team and the license model is user-based.

I would recommend the solution to others.

I rate Micro Focus Fortify on Demand a nine out of ten.

We are using Fortify on Demand as a static code analyzer. As it scans each application, it checks each line of code. When we are developing mobile applications there might be some kind of security vulnerability. One example is a check to see if information that is being transferred is not encrypted because this would be vulnerable to hackers who are trying to break into the system. We also look at whether were are using the network transport layer security.

Our overall goal at this time is to protect our mobile app because it is one of the ways that hackers can break into the system. 

Fortify on Demand is easy to use and the reporting is good.

As for the static code analysis functionality, it is doing the job that it is supposed to do. 

This solution cannot do dynamic application security testing. It needs to be able to simulate a situation where a hacker is trying to break into the system.

The vulnerability analysis does not always provide guidelines for what the developer should do in order to correct the problem, which means that the code has to be manually inspected and understood. Adding more information to provide a better analysis would be an improvement.

This solution would benefit from having more customization available for the reports. 

We have been evaluating Fortify on Demand for close to a year.

Fortify on Demand has been stable from what I have seen. We have not had any problem with the reports, and we have not seen any instability or glitches.

In our trial, there are seven or eight applications that are relying on this solution. Different departments in our company have their own technology centers in different locations, and I am not aware of what the other departments are doing.

I have not interacted with the Fortify on Demand technical support team directly. Our own infrastructure support is the group that would deal with them. My team only communicates with our internal support.

We did not use another solution prior to starting our evaluation that includes Fortify on Demand. People were relying on some open-source static code analyzers. However, I don't think that it was very reliable.

My understanding is the this is not a difficult solution to manage and maintain.

Our server infrastructure team handles the deployment and maintenance of this solution. They update it regularly as patches or new versions are released. They look into all of the tools that we use and perform the installation, as well as manage them.

We are currently using WebInspect but it does not satisfy all of our requirements. We are continuing to research other tools from other vendors, including open-source technologies. We have not fully decided yet. Before deciding on any product or vendor, we have to look at the whole cost of procuring the product license, as well as the recurring cost.

Fortify on Demand is a product that I recommend but the suitability of this solution depends on exactly what the requirements are. Every product has a unique feature as well as limitations with respect to what it can and can not do. What it comes down to is how the application is built, as well as the technology stack. The licensing costs are also something that needs to be considered.

Overall, it is a very good tool and it works well for what it is designed for. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.