Veracode Other Advice

UmarQureshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I would rate Veracode a seven out of ten. Although it doesn't fulfill all our requirements, I am still impressed with it and find the solution appealing.

Veracode has excelled in SAST, DAST, and IAST, but conducting scans, secret scanning, and IAC are new areas for them.

Veracode alone cannot solve our issues or problems. We need to have an agile mindset and ensure that security is embedded and maintained. We need to educate developers to be able to use these tools effectively and incorporate them into their everyday processes.

Veracode can be hosted within Europe or at our local location if needed. However, I believe they offer various instances. Personally, I prefer the SaaS solution over on-prem, mainly because unless we have specific data privacy requirements, using the SaaS solution is more convenient. Opting for on-prem would require additional resources, such as setting it up and engaging with Veracode support, which can be a more complex process. 

Veracode handles the maintenance. All we need to do is set up the files for pipeline scans. Our engineering teams can handle that. In terms of policies, we should review them annually. Credentials will naturally expire on an annual basis, so they need to be reviewed as well. If we want to pursue additional tasks like GitHub integrations, then the setup process is required.  

I recommend evaluating the top four solutions listed in the Gartner report or any other reliable source of information. Test them thoroughly and ensure that the vendor truly understands the organization's environment before making a commitment.

It is crucial for individuals to comprehend and establish a workflow environment before they commence providing tools, and I believe there is indeed a wealth of information pertaining to data dashboards. Although it may require time, we can collaborate with Veracode to construct it. Overall, it is beneficial. It is truly excellent. 

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AkashKhurana - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Publicis Sapient

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

All coders should have Veracode since it helps prevent security issues in applications, thereby safeguarding critical data. As we know, all applications contain sensitive information. If we only store some of our data online, we have to rely on applications that meet industry standards and compliance requirements. Veracode can help achieve these standards and compliance. To ensure this, Veracode must be set up to scan and integrate with the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

We capture the health and pharmacy data of users, so Veracode is deployed in various countries and running live. We have over ten million users.

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Reyansh Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at Accenture

I rate the solution nine out of ten. 

Regarding the tool's false positive rate, the analysis is good but can be affected by data and code not supported by Veracode. In these cases, we can experience some challenges, but other than that, the false positive reporting is good. In cases of unsupported code, developer confidence can be affected, as we know there may be some flaws we can't control. If they are minor enough, we can ignore them.

I advise others considering the product to go with it if it fulfills their requirements. Veracode is a tested name in the market for application security and detecting flawed code. They should evaluate other options if they fit the needs better, but I highly recommend Veracode.

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PB
ML engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I would suggest starting Veracode scans at the earliest stage of development. It's crucial to catch vulnerabilities and risks early on so you don't invest too much time building something only to realize later that it can't be used due to a lot of issues, especially with third-party components. Using these tools as early as possible will benefit you in the long run and allow you to ship your product more quickly.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Robert Hood - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Architect at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would rate Veracode an eight out of ten. Veracode needs to improve its SCA capabilities to become a market leader rather than a market follower. Another noteworthy area they are starting to focus on is container security. I assume they will compete with Laceworks and other companies in that domain, which makes it worth keeping an eye on.

Veracode's software build of materials feature is integrated into the software composition analysis, which we are currently exploring for utilization. However, at this time, we are using a third-party product for that purpose.

Veracode's false positive rate is very low based on what we have found. However, there are instances where it becomes confused, identifying one type of vulnerability when it is actually a different type that appears similar. Nevertheless, we always conduct verifications before approving a list of vulnerabilities for the developers to address. We thoroughly go through and verify at least most of the different types to ensure their validity. My team verifies the false positives, so the developers almost never see them. Because we don't encounter many false positives, we don't spend a lot of time fine-tuning policies. We'll make some minor adjustments, and it should mostly resolve the issue until we encounter a different type of false positive. Then, we'll have to address it separately.

One of the other things that I have observed recently is a tool called Veracode Fix. We have not examined it yet, but it's worth considering. Normally, we avoid implementing too many automated fixes because sometimes they end up causing even more issues, particularly when dealing with legacy code while transitioning to Veracode. Allowing automation could potentially lead to the application being permanently shut down, especially in cases like Software Composition Analysis and Software Bill of Materials where we may need to upgrade to a different or less vulnerable, open source piece of code. If we upgrade without ensuring compatibility with our existing setup, it could break numerous things. Hence, we previously attempted to use automated fixes, but the outcome was negative, and we have decided never to repeat that mistake. Therefore, it's something we plan to explore, but we need to ascertain if there have been any changes in that type of setup.

For someone who wants to use Veracode but is concerned about the cost, the amount of time saved, especially on the SAST side of things, makes it worthwhile.

We are a multi-cloud organization primarily using AWS, with 25 percent of our infrastructure on Azure and a smaller portion on Google Cloud. We are currently using Google services only because we are a Google shop rather than a Microsoft Office shop. As a result, all of our emails are managed through Google, and we rely on Google Docs and other related tools. 

There are four architects and a group of DevSecOps professionals who work directly with the development and operations teams. They form the security component of the organization and are responsible for operating Veracode on a daily basis. Their primary role is to assist the developers in integrating Veracode into their workflows, setting up pipelines, and collaborating with them when vulnerabilities are identified. They are available to help the developers understand why they received a vulnerability and guide them on how to address and eliminate it.

The only maintenance we will have to deal with is related to the ISM servers. These ISM servers are actually controlled by our company. There is an on-prem link to the Veracode cloud. When they conduct their scan, they access the server, which acts as a jump box. This enables them to scan our internal applications that do not have direct access to the outside world.

Veracode is a good Dynamic Application Security Testing tool, but it excels as an outstanding Static Application Security Testing solution for organizations that prioritize serious security measures.

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Deepak Naik - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Security Officer at Digite

I rate Veracode 10 out of 10. When implementing Veracode, you need to develop a workflow or a process. It becomes easier if you have that in place. For example, you can create a workflow where you scan inside the sandbox and approve those fixes before moving to production. 

Also, you should have separate people for raising issues, remediation, and approval. That way, you will have some control over which issues are mitigated and for what reason. That process flow has to be set up properly. Another aspect of successful implementation is automation. Your team needs to invest time in automating and embedding scanning in your pipelines. 

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Alice William - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Web Developer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate Veracode nine out of ten.

Veracode has a bit of a learning curve to get used to its different modules, such as our integrations, APIs, and our policies, as well as getting insights. However, my experience is that once everything is set up and scanned on the website, I really like the process of reviewing the flaws that Veracode lists and responding to the resolution steps that it provides. I also appreciate the ability to set up a consultation call and have the issue resolved. I think these are the steps that I really like, and they are helpful to me as a developer. Veracode helps me to learn about security considerations first and foremost, both while creating an app and after, and that has been a good experience for me.

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Anant Upadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Game Developer at Gamezlab

I rate Veracode nine out of 10. If anyone is considering Veracode, I suggest trying a demo beforehand so that you can see how it addresses the kind of problems your organization is facing and how it works with the programs you are creating. 

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SumalyaGuha - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

When it comes to managing risks, we use the remediation feature that Veracode has. Whenever there is a flaw, we do have tickets open up for it and the application owner or the developer goes through the vulnerabilities. There are times when the vulnerability is a false positive and you can mark it as such within the Veracode platform itself. And we, as security professionals, do the validation for whether the business justification is good or not. And we either have a source code review for the vulnerability or have an exception open up for the remediation step that the application or the owner is asking for. We do risks via the platform, as well as through the ticketing tool that we use.

We are also using SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) for inventing all the different kinds of modules and libraries that we are using for an application. Using the SBOM feature, you would have to leverage the API to get the inventory from the API calls that Veracode has. But in our organization, we use the GUI report generation more than the SBOM report because there is an executive summary in the GUI report with regard to first-party and third-party flaws. It also has the mitigation steps. SBOM would only give you the list of softwares, libraries, and versions that are being used. It is not as detailed as the GUI report that Veracode provides.

Things to consider when looking at Veracode include the different integration points where you want to integrate Veracode, how big your organization is, and how many applications you want to do security analysis on. If it's a big organization, Veracode is obviously a solution to evaluate, but for a small organization, below 500 apps, it might be a little pricey. Also, you will need a couple of Veracode champions on your team who know it inside out. You will need training provided by Veracode, so make sure that is included during the procurement stage. That will help you implement the tool within your organization faster and much more efficiently.

I would have given Veracode a nine out of 10 a couple of years back, but given the tools that are coming out on the market, and the scope of development, which is increasing, I would place it at eight.

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Rishabh Khanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I give the solution a six out of ten.

Veracode has not directly helped our developers save time. There was no interaction between the Veracode team and us, so it was minimal whenever some issues such as false positives are reported by the solution. There were some issues with the Veracode engines a few times that required customer support to resolve.

I used to go to Veracode's website and log in. It was updated automatically, and I could access it from multiple devices. I'm not sure which cloud they were using, but it was managed by Veracode.

We have around 18 people using Veracode and two of them are administrators.

Veracode is accessed via a website on the internet. Their backend team takes care of any maintenance that is needed.

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KK
CEO and App Developer at DroidForge

If someone is looking at Veracode but is concerned about the price, I'd advise a balanced approach to maximize security. You need to prioritize it by evaluating your specific needs and budget constraints. Ensure baseline security measures are in place. If you need other services, like penetration testing, you need to measure benefits against costs, especially if you are a smaller organization.

It's totally worth the cost. Investing in robust security is worth it. However, you need to prioritize approaches based on your organization's unique requirements. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

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Ashish Upadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at BlockMosiac

I'm a customer.

While the pricing is high, it can improve a company's ROI.

It excels in providing robust vulnerability testing. It's great for app or web development, among other uses. Users need to make the most out of the product by taking advantage of their service and support.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

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Boyapati Sivannarayana - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Engineer at Accenture

I'm not sure how much visibility we are getting using the solution. 

The false positive rate we haven't really looked into. We need to learn more about it.

We are just end users, not partners. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

It's a good idea to look at the documentation. Be very cautious when implementing servers.

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Shashank Niranjan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

We have Veracode deployed in multiple locations.

Maintenance is only required when updating the solution.

You should evaluate multiple solutions, but I suggest considering Veracode if it aligns with the organization's requirements.

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Devid William - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Security Architect at Banco Votorantim

We are a customer and end-user.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

I'd recommend the solution to others. 

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Sr. Development Manager at RWS Holdings PLC

I rate Veracode eight out of 10. You should evaluate at least two vendors based on the company's needs. A host of issues need to be addressed, and it's a significant task. Veracode shows you many issues, but you must develop processes to address them. It was impressive when we first scanned our sources and found a thousand, but we had to develop compliance policies to deal with them. My advice is to not make the policies too strict. For example, you can start with high-priority issues. 

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PavanKumar18 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Testing Engineer at TollPlus LLC.

I rate Veracode nine out of 10. I recommend Veracode, depending on the type of application you are scanning. It's a leading solution in this domain. Veracode is the first name that comes to mind when people are talking about security scanning. 

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Zach Handzlik - PeerSpot reviewer
Release Manager/Scrum Master at Amtech Software

My advice would be to look at the open source tools out there and see how far along you are in your security journey and what your needs are. If you're looking for the best in the market, Veracode is a great option, as far as paid solutions go, because it's a one-stop shop. If you have more time at your disposal and you don't mind integrating some solutions, then I'd recommend an open-source tool. However, if you have the resources, I would definitely recommend going for Veracode.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Veracode at nine.

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JS
Manager of Application Development and Integrations at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate Veracode seven out of 10 because I have a beef about their support. Their turnover is impacting us, and we have concerns about how they treat their staff. We love Security Labs. We like the dashboards and reporting. I feel like Veracode wants to see us succeed on their platform, which goes a long way. They want to help us meet the goals set when we started using this product. That's a value add they provide. They do a great job finding security flaws.

At the same time, we have issues with support, platform usability, and performance. If I met a prospective Veracode user, I would point out those issues but also mention our positive experience with the solution engineer and sales staff. They've been accommodating and always willing to work with us.

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Alex Fuglaar - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. 

Potential new users should ensure that they take into account the amount of time their teams are spending on dev setups and consider what other work those people could be doing that might be more meaningful - rather than physically looking through code. Veracode has the ability to improve a team's operations as well as an employee's efficiency with doing complex work. Companies definitely need to consider how efficient their team is and consider what this tool could do to improve that.

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Saket Pandey - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

I give Veracode a nine out of ten. I believe that, in general, Veracode is a good product. False positives and these types of issues can be found in almost every security product out there. The best part was Veracode's technical team. They were proficient in their knowledge and there was never a moment of misunderstanding between our team and theirs. Overall, Veracode ensured that we did not encounter any ransomware or security breaches at any point in time.

Our DevSecOps team was involved in two stages of the entire process. The first stage was during the initial design phase of the specific application build. We had to determine when and where we wanted to manually interpret using the tool, as well as identify potential security breaches that required close monitoring. This was the initial step. Following that, our team proceeded with development, which typically progressed smoothly in collaboration with the client for a period of two to three weeks. As we approached the deployment phase, we would once again discuss with their team to determine specific points where DevSecOps would manually deploy the solution for testing purposes. Afterward, we would assess the solution from our end.

The false positive rate did not have a negative effect on the confidence of our development team. It was made very clear to us by Veracode's support team, as well as through other reviews and conversations with clients, that there would be a possibility of false positives being raised. We had to go through them because we cannot afford to miss out on any potential security breach.

I don't believe Veracode has helped us save time. Overall, if we consider the larger context, saving time was not a direct expectation communicated by Veracode. Their expectation was solely to prevent any security breaches. Regarding time-saving, I don't think Veracode has provided any assistance in that aspect.

At the end of the day, we were essentially thinking of transitioning to a new solution, primarily due to the high number of false positives we were receiving from Veracode, we conducted a cost-and-benefit analysis specifically for Veracode. We discovered that, overall, it prevented our solution from being breached for more than six clients. Considering our annual client turnover rate is approximately twelve to thirteen, Veracode played a significant role in addressing a substantial portion of our challenges.

I recommend negotiating with Veracode for a free trial period. We frequently engage in negotiations to secure a six-month trial. A trial will assist in comprehending the intricacies. While there are benefits, it is important to note that the time required for each project will naturally increase. It is crucial to understand how Veracode operates and determine if it aligns with the company's needs. However, regarding pricing, I am confident that Veracode delivers as requested.

Veracode functions solely within the development department, but within the department itself, we have a division based on the two types of clients we deal with. One type is primarily focused on development, while the other is focused on procuring or conducting quantitative analysis for the markets.

For general everyday maintenance, only two people are involved. However, for monthly maintenance, approximately six people from our end are involved, and I am unsure of the number of people from Veracode's end.

I would advise speaking with other clients like us who have already used Veracode. Prior to that, however, we need to understand what kind of security breaches are possible in our solution and determine how much of our money and time we want to allocate to addressing them. We should assess the importance of these breaches to us. Once we have this understanding, we can discuss with other clients how the overall process went and how much time it actually takes. The final step would be to directly contact their team and negotiate for a longer trial period. The best decision we made was to initiate a six-month trial with Veracode and then transition to full-time usage.

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Freddy Bang. - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at ELEARNINGFORCE International ApS

The false-positive rate is constantly maturing. It's very much based on how many respond back. It's learning based on the false positives. My team thinks that it's better to have a false positive many times than miss a real one. The effect on developer confidence in the solution when fixing vulnerabilities is that it sometimes leads to frustration because they find that it's slowing them down, but the way that the engine is constantly maturing means it is becoming better and better.

I don't think any security or quality analysis tool brings speed. But it increases the quality, both from a risk/security and reliability perspective. But if you're looking at productivity, none of these tools bring productivity. They mitigate risk. It has not made our development process faster.

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Arnab Paul - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I would rate Veracode a seven out of ten because the DAST has room for improvement.

The maintenance is completed by the Veracode team because we are using the cloud version.

For individuals seeking exclusively SAST and SCA capabilities, rather than DAST, Veracode stands out as the most suitable tool. However, if someone intends to utilize Veracode solely for DAST, I believe they should explore alternative tools. The effectiveness of Veracode's DAST functionality is limited, and using other tools might yield better results. Additionally, Veracode provides comprehensive training resources through its portal, including a list of documents and video tutorials. These resources are readily accessible and offer adequate guidance for initiating the use of Veracode.

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DB
Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I rate the solution 10 out of 10. 

I recommend Veracode to any company looking for this type of platform. Though I need to become more familiar with competitor products, I like going into programs and clicking around. Even if I don't initially understand something within Veracode, I can keep going and make sense of it. I updated my resume to include my new experience with the solution.

Veracode reduced the cost of DevSecOps for our organization; we upload a scan, run the test, get the vulnerabilities, and set up a remediation meeting. This makes communication more manageable, and the information is more visible, as all our staff can access the scan results. In several instances, we've consulted with employees from the Veracode side, and they've been very helpful in walking our app team and testers through whatever vulnerabilities we've had issues with.  

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Prateek Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

Every organization should use some kind of security-analysis solution for making their product stable, reducing time and effort, and saving costs.

I would fully recommend this solution to prospective buyers if they have a requirement for an analysis of the security flaws in their application and code. They will find it very useful if they can manage their budget for implementing this solution in the organization. It works perfectly well, and it will meet their expectations.

Overall, I would rate it a 9 out of 10. No solution is perfect, and a few improvements are always required in any solution.

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Jan Pašek - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I give Veracode a seven out of ten due to the slow speed and the false positives.

We only use Veracode for static analysis. We do not use the other features at all.

We have infrastructure deployed in multiple locations around the world. In my team, 50 people use Veracode. Across the entire organization, it is used by hundreds, if not thousands, of users.

I advise everyone to use Veracode in their development pipelines, so that scans can run very frequently, at least once during each nightly build. This will ensure that reports and flaws are addressed effectively. From my development perspective, I recommend against enforcing specific rules on using Veracode, giving deadlines to fix flaws, or introducing additional bureaucracy. This can worsen the developer experience and lead to developers finding ways to avoid having flaws reported, such as by decreasing the frequency of scans. In my opinion, the more processes and bureaucracy we add, the less useful Veracode will be. 

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RB
Security Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

To those evaluating Veracode, I would say that unless you get hands-on experience, it is difficult to evaluate. So, I would advise getting hands-on experience with the tool. I would also advise checking out other solutions such as Fortify and Checkmarx.

Overall, I would rate Veracode a seven out of ten.

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Nantabo Jackie - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Soft Hostings Limited

Veracode's false positive rate is moderate.

My advice would be that this is a great platform, overall, if you have the budget to use it. It does great work that can really help out. But I wouldn't recommend it to a small business because the pricing is not registered on their website. They will have to take you through an assessment. The responses that you deliver will determine the pricing you'll be given. In the end, it may affect ROI.

But if a business is okay with the budget required by Veracode, I would certainly say it is great. It does a lot of security scans to make your applications secure. It will help developers to develop faster.

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Shobana Raghu - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Development Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Veracode is really not difficult or complex to understand. The whole concept is simple. It takes some time to get used to the tool, but it is a very simple tool to work with.

It was quite fast. Scanning my code took 25 to 30 minutes, which was quite good.

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Avinash Mukesh - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialists at Soft Hostings

I give Veracode an eight out of ten.

Veracode is not a cost-effective solution for small businesses, but it is a good solution for medium and enterprise businesses.

Veracode does not require any maintenance.

I recommend Veracode to organizations that need a static code security analysis. Veracode is simple to understand and supports all programming languages.

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Hassan Saleh - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Century Bottling Company

I rate Veracode eight out of 10.

It's an excellent product for developing a secure platform that will benefit your company and its customers while helping you build a sustainable development team. Before implementing Veracode, you need to prepare and have at least one person who understands how to use the product. 

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Prasenjit Roy - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect - SAP on Azure at Accenture

I rate Veracode Static Analysis eight out of 10. I recommend Veracode over Micro Focus. Some companies prefer Micro Focus because they can get a discount and buy it for less than the market price. That's the only reason to use Micro Focus. Otherwise, I don't think Micro Focus can compete with Veracode.

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Oscar Narvaez - PeerSpot reviewer
COE Head at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate Veracode nine out of 10. It's an excellent solution for securing the development lifecycle. I recommend starting with a trial and getting in touch with the account team to explore all of the different features. 

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Daniel Krivda - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

If you have Azure DevOps and would like to understand your code and how secure it is, then there are not a lot of better options. Also, there are not many choices in this area at the moment.

Once your code is scanned by the static scan of Veracode, you get some evaluation scores based on some criteria. For the management, when it is above a certain number, it is fine, but when it is built below, then it is no-go for production. Even though there is a possibility to create a sandbox environment for projects, they don't get it. That is understandable to me. I try to explain to them that there are no issues if you are working in a development environment and you get difficult scans. It is fine then because you can create a sandbox environment, which will not screw up or make the production releases worse because it is in a separate bucket.

We are happy using the solution. I would rate it as nine out of 10.

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Vikas Agrawal - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Lead at HealthEdge Software, Inc.

Although Veracode doesn't scan source code, only binary code, I'm not concerned because we can scan the source code with an SCR tool.

Veracode hasn't yet helped our developers save time. Their development time has increased because, initially, we were only taking the security and vulnerability issues on the higher branches. Now it is on lower branches as well, so the development time has increased. In the local branches, if a report indicates something has not passed, we are not allowing them to merge their code into higher branches.

We have it deployed in a multi-cloud and hybrid environment. We are using AWS, Azure, and VMware vSphere.

Overall, I would recommend Veracode. It is quite helpful.

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Muhammed Shabreen - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at RIZEK

It is a good product, and you should consider it, but it can be elevated more for startup culture. It should be more pricing-friendly and user-friendly. There should also be strengthening of the developer community.

We are only doing code analysis with it. For manual penetration testing, we have to contact an entity.

It hasn't reduced our scan time. It also hasn't helped our organization with certification and audits. We're a small startup, and at this time, we don't have audits, etc. We might do that later. 

I would rate this product a six out of ten.

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KN
Junior Developer Intern at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

I've not used the Software Bill of Materials in Veracode.

I'm unsure how the false positive rate affects developer confidence in Veracode on fixing vulnerabilities because I'm more of a DevOps user and don't work on development but automation.

I'm also unsure of the effect of Veracode on my organization's ability to fix flaws because I've not used it directly to fix any flaws. I report to the dev team, who then takes the report and fixes the flaws accordingly.

I'm unsure of the impact Veracode had on the overall security posture of my organization, as I didn't use it for that.

In my organization, Veracode has a hybrid cloud deployment.

The solution doesn't require any maintenance.

My rating for Veracode, overall, is eight out of ten.

What I'd tell others looking into buying the solution is that as far as DevOps is concerned, Veracode is a must-have. It's been helpful for my organization DevOps-wise, though I have no information on other Veracode offerings. I recommend that others buy Veracode.

My organization has a business relationship with Veracode. It's a Veracode partner.

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Satheesh Bojedla - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Veracode handles the maintenance part of the solution. Veracode's side may be down at times for maintenance.

I recommend Veracode Static Analysis to those planning to use it, but the scans should not be carried out daily since it can get too costly. I recommend not doing the frequent scans to save on the costs.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

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Oluseyi Osifalujo - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Director at Precise Financial Systems Limited

I rate Veracode an eight out of ten.

We are currently in the process of investigating Veracode's capability to offer insight into the status of applications at each stage of development.

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Ivo Dias - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer at M3Corp

The impact that Veracode has on security posture depends on the size of the company. Usually, large companies have standards in place, and that makes code development more secure than it is in small companies. For small companies, Veracode can really make a huge improvement to the SDLC.

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MC
Vice President of Engineering at Avant Assessment

Veracode is a valuable tool to have in the toolbox to prevent vulnerable code from going into production. Veracode's false positive rate has been very good. It's reasonable. False positives take more time, but I have not noticed that time to be a significant burden. Its policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations is adequate. 

In terms of having visibility into application status at every phase of deployment, Veracode doesn't provide that. It doesn't control the whole deployment cycle, so there's no way it can report on all of it.

The platform's interfaces look slightly antiquated but don't let that stop you from using it, because it has been a good solution for us.

The biggest lesson I have learned using it is that it's really nice to have these security checks in a single place in your code pipeline. We have multiple security companies at this point, but having the code review and product review security in one place helps us know that that part is "containerized." Having everything dealing with code review in one place is nice.

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Jagusztin Laszlo - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Architect, Presales lead at Alerant Zrt.

Use Veracode for the special use case of binary scanning, because it is the best in this special use case.

Security Labs is very good as well. We are not using it day-to-day, but it's a good feature.

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Ujjwal Sachdeva - PeerSpot reviewer
Data scientist at Advarisk

I'd advise colleagues considering Veracode to evaluate the specific requirements for their application and do an in-depth analysis. I would recommend it as a product.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. 

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JW
Lead Product Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate Veracode six out of ten.

Once Veracode is fully configured, the maintenance should be relatively minimal.

Veracode's best advantages are detailed reporting for industries such as government work, or other industries that may require exceptionally detailed reports or secure security verifications. However, I would suggest that people look out for the accuracy of results and the usefulness of findings on a large scale. Additionally, Veracode has a difficult-to-navigate user interface.

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MH
Chief Software Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

My company has a hybrid Veracode deployment. It's a cloud-based solution, so it's tied to the company's automatic build cycles, where you can access and do scans through the cloud.

Veracode doesn't require maintenance. The only maintenance my company performs is fixing vulnerabilities found by Veracode.

Overall, my rating for Veracode is seven out of ten.

I advise others looking to evaluate Veracode to utilize the presales marketing side first. For example, my company was able to utilize Veracode in a presales environment and do the scans to find out how vulnerable my company's software is and compare Veracode with the previous tool, WhiteSource. My company found additional vulnerabilities and was able to do that before signing the contract. It may be best to do a test run of Veracode to find out what the tool is all about and how it looks to your company.

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AK
LSA at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I give Veracode an eight out of ten.

20 to 30 percent of the false positive rates are vulnerabilities. Sometimes, almost 50 percent of the reports are false positives, which affects the time spent on tuning policies.

The false positives increase the amount of time our developers need to spend investigating the reports. 

Veracode offers static analysis, dynamic analysis, and composition analysis all in one place.

We are a team of five individuals who assist in deploying and managing Veracode, along with handling other tasks.

Our client base varies depending on their budgets, but we serve a large number of organizations in the financial industry.

I recommend Veracode. The solution is on par with the others, and organizations can read the reviews and run some tests before making a purchase.

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BF
Application Security Engineer at Advantasure

I rate Veracode seven out of 10. Before you evaluate Veracode or any other solution, you need to sit down with other specialists and decision-makers to develop some criteria. See if Veracode will give you a free trial license, and start testing it out. You can also check Gartner. 

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Geofrey Mutabazi - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

I give the solution a seven out of ten.

I believe that it is a wise decision to test our code to ensure its security. Utilizing Veracode is a beneficial practice as it examines our code and provides recommendations on areas that require improvement. This ultimately results in a stable solution. However, I advise using Veracode only if the business has the budget for it, as it can be expensive. Any organization that chooses to use Veracode, can be confident in the quality of its solution but must be prepared for the associated costs.

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Michea Mbaziira - PeerSpot reviewer
Insurance Agent at ICEA

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

Veracode is user-friendly depending on how we use it. 

We have seven people using the solution.

Veracode does not require any maintenance on our end.

Veracode is a secure, reliable, and sustainable tool that all organizations should use for scanning code.

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Prakash Pillay - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Product Solution/Architecture at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It does root analysis, but fixing things is up to us. Also, it doesn't require much maintenance.

I would highly recommend it.

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Evan Gertis - PeerSpot reviewer
Penetration Tester at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

My advice would be to start with meeting with people from Veracode. Once you meet with the team from Veracode, the best way to handle that is to start asking questions and identifying the things that would be of value so that an organization doesn't start out by paying too much money. Then you're moving away from that being too scared of what the outcome is. I think once they go in and they have a meeting with people and they can actually discuss what they want to do, that's the first step towards planning out how the platform will be used.

I would rate it a ten out of ten. 

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Evan Gertis - PeerSpot reviewer
Penetration Tester at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

I rate Veracode 10 out of 10. Veracode is constantly changing and improving. 

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CM
CyberSec professional at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would rate Veracode eight out of ten.

We deployed Veracode in one location and have ten users.

I recommend Veracode based on the script language being used.

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Calinescu Tudor - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Project Leader at ATOSS AG

Not every such application is able to prevent everything from going to production, but several issues can be spotted via the scanning of the code and resolved, and they are valid. There are many others that can be detected with additional tooling from OWASP, Sonar, et cetera.

We are not using the SBOM functionality from Veracode. We use another tool to create the software bill of materials. That solution is also able to scan Docker images, and it also provides details about what is inside the layers of the Docker image file.

In terms of visibility into application status at every phase of development, it depends on how able you are to scan your application. For large applications, you have to do manual uploads, which is the case for us. We don't do manual uploads on every build, but we trigger it at certain times when we want to create releases for customers. That helps with our accuracy, but it doesn't represent the exact moment when there is a problem in the application. We still have to analyze the commits and history, track things, and match them with the new flaws that have been found in the latest report.

Veracode doesn't save us time. We have to spend a lot of time fixing security issues, especially those that impact lots of dependencies, dependent code, and sub-projects. But in the end, we can sleep well at night knowing that we have closed a possible security leak within the code, which is better for everybody. Even if there is no real problem at that moment and you don't see any probability of that vulnerability appearing in production, it is better to take some time to fix it, and then you feel better.

It has provided what we were looking for in such an application, meaning static application security testing functionality. That was what we were interested in.

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Dipjyoti Roy - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Devops Engineer at Thosmon Reuters

I rate Veracode a seven out of ten.

I recommend Veracode. The solution only requires a one-time configuration into the pipeline and the testing is done automatically. 

Integrating Veracode with our pipelines is an easy process. We simply use VML files and the integration is done automatically for us.

We currently have approximately 55 microservices, composed of various teams. Altogether, there are about 170 people utilizing Veracode.

I recommend becoming as familiar as possible with Veracode before using it. Even watch online tutorials to ensure that the deployment goes as smoothly as possible.

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Vladimir Shilov - PeerSpot reviewer
DevSecOps at Ciklum ApS

I recommend those planning to use the solution check the system requirements and choose a solution that supports programming languages and .NET Framework versions that record scans.

I am not sure if it is one of the best solutions because I am not an expert in other solutions available in the market. Somehow, I personally feel it is one of the best tools in the market.

I rate the overall product a nine out of ten.

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Mahammad Azeem - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I give Veracode a six out of ten.

We cannot simply create one policy and claim it is compliant unless all my issues are thoroughly flagged based on that compliance and the complaint. As technology improves and we move forward, bugs and certain issues may arise, and we may not always know the solutions or the severity level of their impact. Considering this perspective, Veracode is acceptable. I will illustrate this with another tool, Fortify SSC. Suppose there are newly added licenses or rules for software compliance in their security scanning tool. In Veracode, if I wish to update the new compliance tools or checks that the algorithms run against it, I must obtain approval from the architect. This approach has its advantages. However, in the case of the tool I am currently working on, Fortify SSC, there is something called a 'rule pack' for each language. I have the option to keep the existing version of the rules or upgrade to the latest rule pack. This feature works as a toggle option in Veracode.

Tuning policies is essentially the application of specific policies. When we deploy a policy, it affects all our scans and issues. The new policies applied are divided by Veracode and, when implemented, impact all the applications. Therefore, most of the time, when we apply a new policy, there is a chance that if there are three flaws, we can assume there are thirteen million flaws in my current scan. If a policy is applied, there are definitely ten to fifteen additional issues in the new scan after implementing the updated policy. Thus, there is always an increase in the number of flaws when there is a new policy update.

There are certain flaws. For example, I am releasing a package into production, and I conducted a Veracode scan against the source code, which is stored in the bin bucket. So, even if I fix the issue on my own, the same issue will be flagged again due to the change in client number. This is a significant problem because we cannot explain to the higher management that the report contains the password, and we have already taken measures to mitigate the issue. We cannot claim that this issue has already been fixed, as it continues to resurface. It is a Veracode issue, not one originating from us, but it becomes complicated when higher management sees a report indicating the same issue from the previous month. We don't know what to do. One of the ways we addressed the issue was by reducing the number of times the same issue occurs. For instance, in my previous work at a bank, we had applications specific to each country, like one for Singapore, one for Malaysia, and so on for most Southeast Asian countries. Although our master bank application was the main source, we created individual applications for each country in Veracode. As a result, the number of false positives or issues that were previously mitigated or closed and kept reappearing from month to month was reduced, but they were not completely eliminated. By switching to a different application for each country the false positives were reduced by around seventy percent.

Our organization was approached to adopt Snyk; however, it is a startup solution, and the bank prefers something that is well-established. Currently, we are using Fortify SSC. 

We have a five-person IT team that is responsible for all the DevOps tasks, including Veracode.

Compared to Fortify SSC, which has a complicated setup requiring three installations, Veracode is easier because the app is hosted in the cloud. All we need is a support license, and they will create a project for us. We can create a firewall proxy, and the API pipeline is already in place. To create a scan for another application, we simply copy and paste the code and change the application's name. 

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VS
Sr. Web Application Security at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I rate Veracode a five out of ten. 

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SR
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Right now we have it on-prem but we are moving toward the cloud in the next six months or so. We've started that journey. I don't think there have been any difficulties in maintaining the pipeline. We've never had any challenges since we introduced Veracode as part of our DevSecOps pipeline.

For my application, it has definitely been a great tool. It ensures that your application is devoid of vulnerabilities. Go for it.

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Walwasa Mulutazah Yahaya - PeerSpot reviewer
Project officer at BRAC Uganda

It has been good for me, and it works well. I'd recommend it. It's very useful for any company. Any developer can maintain security and compliance. It supports manual penetration testing, which is very useful to have in addition to flaw identification. However, it takes a long time to scan. To a business that has the budget, I'd recommend it.

Overall, I'd rate Veracode a seven out of ten.

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Peter Westin - PeerSpot reviewer
Backend Engineer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scanning tools are a big safeguard for getting vulnerable code out of production. It's almost mandatory today to scan applications because there are so many attacks happening in the world right now, no matter which solution you use.

I was very pleased when I tried Veracode because I hadn't heard about it before, but it was much better than I thought.

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Naushath Raja - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I rate Veracode a nine out of ten. If you plan to implement Veracode, your DevSecOps should adopt modularized-based code segregation for better visibility into how this ecosystem works. It's crucial to be clear about the solutions you are procuring. There are multiple options, and not everything will work for you. Understanding your requirements, what your customer needs, and what will work best for your product is essential. Purchase the solution most suitable for your product and your company. 

You should also maximize Veracode's benefit by working closely with the tech support team. We don't use many of the features we have procured. Setting up an ongoing review mechanism with Veracode technical support is critical to better understand the product and ensure you get the maximum return for your investment. These are some points that company leaders need to discuss with their DevSecOps and DevOps teams.

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JA
IT Project Manager at Orange España

Overall, Veracode's false positive rate is good. In some cases, we have found some issues with reporting those kinds of flaws. It might be that the false positives were due to the wrong policy configuration in Veracode, but that was resolved with the help of their customer support.

I would recommend it because security should be a priority for any organization. Go for a trial and, if it fits all your needs, go ahead with it.

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Jagusztin Laszlo - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Architect, Presales lead at Alerant Zrt.

Veracode can list a lot of vulnerabilities, but processing all of them is a time- and resource-intensive process. I think Veracode has no innovative features because a lot of other software can do that. In our opinion, innovative features are a commodity with Veracode, but they are doing a good job.

The solution's ability to provide visibility into application status at every phase of development is valuable. It can be faster, but it can also slow down because our backlog may be much longer. There will be a lot of vulnerabilities or false positives that have to be processed. So, it is not black and white, but it is safer. Veracode has helped our developers save time.

Veracode has had a very low impact on our organization’s overall security posture because it is a very expensive product. An enterprise with 1,000 applications uses the solution for one or two applications. Veracode does not need any maintenance because it's cloud-based.

Veracode is very important to our organization’s shift-left security strategy when we have a project with enough sources to provide the license. I use Veracode’s cloud version. The return on investment with Veracode is good for one or two mission-critical projects running in the company. For other things, users should use open-source solutions or much cheaper products like SonarQube that are not as good as Veracode.

The fact that Veracode scans only binary code and doesn't scan source code concerns me sometimes. Sometimes, we have to do some source repository audits. We cannot use Veracode for source repository audits because it scans only binary code. I would recommend Veracode to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

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Sairam Bathini - PeerSpot reviewer
DevSecOps Engineer at Tata Consultancy

I am into DevOps, and we have integrated Veracode into our DevOps pipeline.

I would recommend Veracode to other users.

Overall, I rate Veracode a nine out of ten.

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SA
Manager IT at a tech company with 201-500 employees

I rate Veracode eight out of 10. I would recommend Veracode to other users. However, I suggest doing a proof of concept before moving forward with any solution. 

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JV
Manager Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I would rate Veracode a perfect ten out of ten because it consistently delivers on its promises.

Those who are concerned about Veracode's price should be aware that the solution holds value. Additionally, they should consider that other solutions are on-premises and require additional fees for reporting traffic processed, unlike Veracode.

The maintenance is all taken care of by Veracode.

Veracode is so straightforward that I have no advice to offer to anyone.

There are many companies out there that do not consider code security when thinking about cybersecurity risks. This holds true even for larger companies, where it is still a greenfield situation.

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Shiva Prasad Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The false positive rate is pretty low. When I started using Veracode, there were a lot of false positives, but that number became notably smaller. There are some false positives because new types of flaws are generated for each new version.

Initially, in general, whenever you see any kind of false positives or true negatives, it reduces your confidence. But whenever the reports are generated by Veracode, as developers we can understand that they show certain patterns of what might be a false positive. So we get an idea that this kind of a flaw might be a false positive while this kind might not be a false positive. We get clarity about the reports sent by Veracode. At a certain point, we might be sure that we can explain all the false positive data to management so that they can look into them and understand: If this kind of data or this kind of code flaw comes up, it is a false positive. We can easily associate these scenarios with false positives because they are normal and common.

During the initial phase, false positives affect our time because we can't deduce any conclusions. Static analysis is the kind of process in which you will encounter false positives in certain cases. But after a couple of implementations of machine learning, the results should be pretty accurate and the false positives should decrease.

Preventive maintenance is critical. Per my experience with Veracode, there are certain maintenance issues, but they are the normal types of things.

I would highly recommend Veracode, but initially, don't do a deep dive into the tool. Take a couple of licenses to start adapting to the tool and work out how it works and whether it's suitable for your development processes and developers, and get their feedback. I highly recommend it because it's a real time-saver, provides stability, and improves your organization's productivity.

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Fiorina Liberta - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal SRE Engineer at AIA Singapore

Try all of the features. Make sure that you use the Veracode SCA with different languages since we can see differences between scanning Java, Node.js, or PHP.

For our site, we only use SAST and DAST for penetration testing. Also, the penetration testing for SCA is handled by another vendor since we have a different vendor for this usage. 

It helps indirectly with Webex.

I would rate the solution as eight out of 10.

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GG
Technical Program Manager at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

I recommend exhausting all resources and gaining knowledge from different security tools, before making a decision. Veracode is not cheap, but it is a tool capable of giving dynamic, static and even manual scan results in one platform. Veracode is one of very few options out there, and the very best.

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AR
DevOps Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Other than the scanning time, I would give it a solid eight out of 10.

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AjitMatthew - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal. - Head - IT, Information Security and Admin at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

I give Veracode an eight out of ten. The solution is comprehensive, albeit a bit costly.

We have not observed any impact on our policy reporting and compliance with industry standards and regulations since we started using Veracode.

The false positive rate is slightly high, but we are able to manage it. The false positive rate of the static analysis has not affected the time we spend on the tuning process.

Veracode has not affected our developers' time significantly, as the response rates for certain tasks have been slightly slower.

I recommend conducting a cost analysis and rate of return evaluation to determine whether the solution is worthwhile. I highly recommend using Veracode for complex products, but it may not be as valuable for simpler ones.

Veracode does not require any maintenance.

I have learned that it is necessary to plan our strategy for the product and security prior to using Veracode.

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Miodrag Zarev - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

I rate Veracode eight out of 10. I recommend first testing it on your code to see if it's appropriate. You need to see how long it takes to scan the code. 

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CD
Vice President QE Practice at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of security breaches, the static code analysis is what we use to try to ensure that an application is free of vulnerabilities. But when you deploy it in the environment, there are multiple aspects that might contribute to a breach. It could be either due to the infrastructure or another application or even through endpoint network solutions. So, we cannot completely rely on Veracode to prevent security breaches but it can reduce them.

Veracode SCA reviews the code and allows us to provide overall information in terms of vulnerabilities. It does a pretty decent job. We are used to Veracode, having used it for a long time. Compared to when we started, all the developers are comparatively more confident and happy with it.

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Chris Sawyer - PeerSpot reviewer
Full Stack Engineer at TCDRS

Veracode only has a cloud offering. You upload your binary files for static scanning, or you whitelist your IP and have them come in and scan your website. It doesn't require any maintenance on our end.

Overall, it's really good. It's a lot better than other offerings I've seen. The dynamic scanner works really well. The static scanner is still good, but it could be improved.

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SS
Senior Consultant at Material Vision

We do not use the free access to Veracode's Application Security Consulting team, but we are planning to use it. We have not yet used the Veracode Fix feature that produces AI-generated fixes. It is a new feature.

The fact that Veracode does not scan source code, only binary code, does not concern us. We are using multiple tools. Veracode is one of them.

Overall, I would rate Veracode a 7 out of 10. We are still adopting Veracode. We have not gone through all the features that Veracode provides. Its rating would probably increase after a few months of use. I would recommend Veracode to others.

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KA
Cyber Security Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

They keep on working on their product. They keep on upgrading that. The threat landscape keeps on evolving, and there are new threats every day. The Veracode team helped us in mitigating and remediating them and guiding us with those particular threats. I would surely recommend Veracode. I even tried to recommend it over here, but I am not one responsible person for that decision over here.

They have recently introduced a feature called "Veracode Fix" that produces AI-generated fixes. I read about it somewhere. It does vulnerability identification and prioritization and some behavioral analysis. It does dynamic analysis of any malware or any abnormal or malicious behavior. It is evolving. One more thing that I read was pattern recognition. The AI algorithm that has been provided recognizes patterns. It can assist in recognizing patterns and trends in security data.

It has policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations, but we did not use that.

To those who want to use Veracode or any similar solution, I would advise being aware of their environment and security posture and seeing where it fits into their security posture. If they proactively work on the alerts provided by Veracode, they will surely save a lot of money, time, and resources. I would suggest working proactively on the alerts given by Veracode.

Overall, I would rate Veracode an eight out of ten.

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TR
Associate Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

I would rate Veracode a nine out of ten.

Minimal maintenance is required for Veracode.

We are not concerned that Veracode does not scan source code, as we believe scanning binary code is a more advantageous option.

Since security is paramount for applications, utilizing Veracode to identify and remediate vulnerabilities is a wise investment. This approach frees up valuable time and resources, allowing for more efficient progress.

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GR
System Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I would rate Veracode eight out of ten.

There is minimal maintenance required from developers. The infrastructure team will take care of it. So, let's say there is one application, four microservice components, and six flow components. In that case, two members can easily maintain the Veracode platform.

I am one of five member developers from India who are using Veracode. We also have locations in Spain, Mexico, and London.

I recommend Veracode for organizations that are not in the cloud and still working on-premises. 

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KW
Founder/Developer at Sarkonah

I would recommend using Veracode to help you understand your software and remove vulnerable code.

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David Jellison - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director, Quality Engineering at Everbridge

All of the Veracode applications operate as one platform. Most of the competitors out there separate their products from their reporting and configuration, so you don't get a single pane of glass. With Veracode, you get a single pane of glass and reporting that you can combine with the different scan types to look at compliance.

The advice I would give regarding this solution is this: Look at the policies, the dashboards, and integration with ALM applications like Veracode and JIRA. They have a tighter integration there that I see with most of the competitors.

I'm sure that the scan quality is consistent. Perhaps there's some applications that are a little better than others at detection. But we find that Veracode is very comparative to other things you solutions the quality of catching vulnerabilities.

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EricOlson1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Security Program Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I rate Veracode Manual Penetration Testing nine out of 10 for support and ease of setup. If you're considering this solution, I suggest trying it out and taking the opportunity to learn and teach yourself. Take some classes or online training. I found the solution pretty straightforward, and I'm not terribly technical. 

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FranckGafsou - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect Lead at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Veracode Static Analysis isn't deployed on-premises. It's a SaaS offering.

We are using Veracode Static Analysis for static analysis and SCA, and there is also a need for the DAST module for dynamic scanning. We are considering running a POC for this solution, but I don't have any other updates for the time being. I know its DAST features would also be useful.

We are currently using HCL AppScan for SAST, and because we are not very satisfied with that product, we are considering using Veracode Static Analysis for DAST.

A lot of people are using Veracode Static Analysis in our company, approximately 300 or 400 people: development team leaders, developers, and people who are very tech-savvy and using all their time to develop applications and new programs.

I don't have pricing insight for this solution. I was not involved in the project before this was deployed. I just read in forums that the price for Veracode Static Analysis is high, but I cannot provide any specific insight.

What I can tell others who are looking into implementing Veracode Static Analysis is that it is a platform that provides good features. Its reporting capabilities are interesting, and overall the platform gives high quality results. You can manage your vulnerabilities and your risks quite easily, and define your own mitigation strategies within the platform.

I'm rating this solution a seven out of ten.

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KB
Sr. VP Engineering at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

My advice would depend on the size of your company and whether you have dedicated security engineers. For us, given the size of our company, Veracode has been very important. We needed a turnkey solution, and one that integrated directly into our product. We wanted something immediate. We couldn't take the time to hire a bunch of security engineers and have them figure it out and then do an RFP. That was not us.

If you're in that position, where you need something that really meets all of your software security needs during the development life cycle, check out Veracode for sure. Look at a couple of their competitors. It's fine to kick the tires a bit and then what you can get from others, but I would definitely recommend that one-stop-shop type of thinking. You really want to get your solutions from one vendor, a partner that is strong in this area.

For the manual pen testing, there's a full day where they engage your product. It takes us about half a day of planning and putting it together, and then providing them with a live website. They then bring their team together and go through all the reports about what they saw and, typically, within a period of three days from the time of the manual pen test, we get results from them. Along with that, they also offer any kind of service you need to interpret or understand the results. You can also get some follow-on from them in terms of best practices and how to fix things.

In terms of false positives, I like my security scans to be a little more conservative, rather than being aggressive about eliminating things without me seeing them. I'm okay with the fact that, every once in a while, they flag something and bring it to our attention, and we see that it is really a non-issue. The reason that is my approach is that, when you do a static scan or a pure dynamic scan, these products don't completely understand your application environment. They cannot guess that this or that code is not used in this fashion. They can only flag something to bring it to your attention, and then you make the judgment call.

Veracode has flagged a few issues for us that we decided were non-issues. In their dashboard, you can actually provide a dispensation for each of those items. So we have gone in there and checked a box and put a comment saying, "Not applicable to our workflow." I was very happy that they caught those things. It gives us some confidence that they're looking deep into our product. We haven't had any major issues with false positives. What they flagged to us was reasonable, and we were able to decide that they were not really an issue for us.

Our confidence level is very high, thanks to Veracode's solution and our internal focus on shift-left methodology. I push my engineers to make security a part of the design, development, and testing processes. It can't be something that is done as an afterthought. We need shift-left thinking all the way to the left. You want to tackle an issue before it occurs.

Overall, Veracode has affected all our application security in a very strong, positive way, and I look forward to using their products and technology to continuously improve our security best practices.

I would give it a 10 out 10. It really is a strong solution for the industry. I'm looking forward to engaging Veracode in an even stronger way in 2022. I want to tightly align what we're doing, from a security best-practices perspective, even more with what they have to offer.

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Everton Yoshitani - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Engineering at Resola Inc

I rate Veracode 9 out of 10. 

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SC
Systems Engineer at Shift movers

I rate Veracode an eight out of ten. I would recommend it to others who need to do testing for application performance or security and risk management. 

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SR
Product Marketer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If a proof of concept is possible, I would ask you to try it out first to get a sense of what Veracode is before investing. But investing in this tool is very much needed. With security threats, for long-term purposes, the code-level threat detection and code-level error detection are very much needed by any organization.

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NS
Delivery Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I rate Veracode a nine out of ten.

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Rafael Mesquita - PeerSpot reviewer
Full Stack Software Developer at DreamDev

I rate Veracode eight out of 10. It can help you improve your security by identifying and preventing issues faster. At the same time, you should know that using Veracode will lengthen the development process because the team needs to check and correct issues. It could increase your development costs. 

Using Veracode has challenged us to be more conscious of security. Sometimes, developers just want to build code. This tool allows you to check if the code or libraries are secure enough to add. 

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PR
Senior Security Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would advise people to use Veracode Static Analysis in the final levels of deployment. For example, when you used another tooling, such as SonarQube to do the initial tasks with the developers, then for peer reviews it is best to use Veracode Static Analysis for making sure that your repositories are controlled and managed properly.

I would always advise people to deploy at least two tools, one at a lower level to do the peer-to-peer that is cheaper, such as SonarQube because close to being free. Then use something, such as Veracode for the repository control and the management control of your data cubes.

No solution is a hundred percent perfect. I wouldn't rate any solution a 10 because they've all got faults. SonarQube might pick something up that Veracode Static Analysis doesn't and vice versa.

I rate Veracode Static Analysis a seven out of ten.

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Anshuman Kishore - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Product Development at Mycom Osi

Twenty-five to thirty people from the development and QA teams use Veracode Static Analysis, but my company is still learning the best way to reduce the load. There's no plan to increase the tool's usage for now.

Based on my initial analysis, I'd recommend Veracode Static Analysis to anyone looking into implementing it, as it's a good tool.

My rating for Veracode Static Analysis is eight out of ten.

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Nathan S - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Product at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

My advice to others is if they use Veracode Static Analysis they are using a very solid solution. You get what you pay for. It's an expensive solution, but it's very good. You're going to save a lot of time and a lot of headaches with fewer false positives, but you're going to pay for it. It's good if you want to automate something into your pipeline and it's going to run fast and give you good results. I would choose Veracode Static Analysis, but be cognizant of the cost.

I rate Veracode Static Analysis an eight out of ten.

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Ajit Matthew - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Partner IT and Information Security at TheMathCompany

My advice for anybody who is looking into Veracode is that it's one of the very few solutions that can perform dynamic, static, and software composition analysis.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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ST
Engineering Security Manager at Nextiva

If the springboard issue doesn't hold them back and the pricing model stays the same as the one that we have right now for this year with them, it's a good deal. Veracode is pretty straightforward to use and the support is really good. We don't have a lot of complaints about that. 

I don't know how the pricing model is going to change the actual price of the application. On a per license basis, Veracode has a very lucrative way of doing business. I don't think a big company that has a lot of services and applications would enjoy paying upwards of $200,000 per year to scan all their code. 

Prospective customers should look at how the pricing model affects them, especially if they are in the microservice type of architecture or if they are moving towards something like that.

I would rate Veracode an eight out of ten just based on the experience that we had the past two years. The reason it's not ten is because of the ways these tools integrate. 

That rating is at risk of becoming a seven now with the pricing model changing. Veracode is probably not going to be that attractive anymore compared to other competitors. We knew other competitors were more expensive. The reason that we didn't go with them was that Veracode was very straightforward.

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SM
Security Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Veracode provides policy reporting to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. It is beneficial. The product also provides features to create custom policies. Most false-positives cases come under DAST. The false positives depend on the code. Veracode provides around 5% false positives.

The solution shows the vulnerabilities in the code and provides generic remediations for it. We must then search it on Google. The product’s community is also good. Sometimes, the product provides solutions in the community. These solutions work well on the production level.

I have also used the SCA features which help with identifying vulnerabilities in applications's third-party components. The Veracode user interface is so convenient and easy to use. Anyone can run a scan and generate a report easily.

The solution provides absolute visibility into application status at every phase of development. The users can get visibility through the CI/CD pipeline. The time taken to complete the scans depends on how much code is present in a specific application and how big the application is.

Veracode introduced a new module named Veracode Fix, which automates the fixes for insecure software with AI-generated secure code suggestions where the developer does not have to spend time searching and remediating the vulnerabilities. The developer does not have to spend time searching for vulnerabilities. Sometimes, the tool gives a generic recommendation, sometimes specific recommendations. It will be helpful if it always provides specific recommendations. The amount of time saved hinges on factors such as code complexity, the programming language employed, and the developer's proficiency in secure coding. If anyone uses Veracode throughout the entire process of building an application, from the start of development to the final production stage, can result in a time savings of around 30% to 40% when leveraging various security measures of the platform.

Veracode has had a good impact on our organization’s overall security posture. If we choose to take the complete Veracode module, we can have security from the initial step to the production phase. 

I will recommend others to implement the solution. Veracode is in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. It is doing a good job.

Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

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BahatiAsher Faith - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at Appnomu Business Services

Veracode is good. It's for organizations that want to give their customers both security and privacy. It's good in case you want to dive deep into the code and get the flaws that could be dangerous to both the organization and the customers using an application. If you are looking to create a good application that is also secure, I'd recommend Veracode.

Overall, I'd rate Veracode a 9 out of 10.

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SP
Software development program leader at Vendavo

We see at least quarterly updates about new features or things that have been fixed. It happens without our involvement, which is great.

My advice for anybody who is considering Veracode is to test it. Although I have not compared Veracode against other products as part of an evaluation process, it would be very useful and very easy to actually try it. Top-load your application, get the results and take a look at what Veracode finds. This is the most useful activity somebody could do.

This is a product that lives up to its promise. It's easy to use, and it's predictable. There are some improvement opportunities but on the whole, it's very good at what it does. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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SM
Principal for the Application Security Program and Access Control at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

It is good for third-party scanning and if your code base is all modern web frameworks. It is also great for the third-party analysis. However, the Software Composition Analysis is not good if you have C++ code or anything legacy, as it does not cover that. It also does not cover iOS code. It has a lot of constraints.

The solution’s policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations is fine. We are using it for internal reporting, but we haven't really dug into the policy definitions and tweaking them. We are using its default policies.

As part of our validation and testing, we are able to catch vulnerable code early on. That has been helpful. Automating some of the process has been really helpful, at least from our team's effort perspective. The tool highlights the risk associated with vulnerabilities. That effort is very much automated with this tool.

I would rate this solution as a six out of 10. If you have legacy applications, the solution is great. Their SaaS scanning is geared towards that. If you have modern frameworks, the SaaS scanning and dynamic scanning don't provide much value. My advice to anybody looking at Veracode: Use them for third-party scanning. They are really good at that because of their SourceClear acquisition. For the rest of their products though, just keep looking.

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Deepak Naik - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Security Officer at Digite

I'm pretty confident about Veracode's ability to prevent vulnerable code from going into production when I'm using it.

When you use Veracode, instead of using it as a manual tool, you should integrate it into your CI/CD pipeline. This way, every build is certified. Then, if there is an issue, you will know about it earlier in the development cycle, not later. Because as the time passes, it becomes more difficult to fix that issue.

With Veracode's support for cloud-native applications, there are some components of our application (which are cloud-native), that we treat in the same way as regular software, e.g., the source code and dynamic URLs. We don't have a model where we can do the real-time scanning. This is something which is currently in talks for maintaining the security of the distributed application. Hopefully, that should get implemented in about two months' time.

The reports that they share have been pretty informative, but someone has to go through them and read them quickly. In the early days, they might have offered some kind of training plan, but we did not opt for that.

Veracode has a plugin which we use, and it works with developer tools.

While there are false positive, there aren't much (around 10 percent). We normally farm these to the Veracode team, who act accordingly. Our developers still report 90% valid issues, and this is satisfactory for us.

Biggest lesson learnt: Security should not be an afterthought. 

I would rate this solution as an eight out of 10. I took off points due to the extra time that it takes to do the dynamic scan.

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DC
Chief Technology Officer

CA Veracode provides application security (AppSec) best practices and guidance to our teams in a couple ways. First of all, they have an e-learning module that has courses that we have required our developers to take. That's a best practice.

Secondly, 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. 

They also have what's called a Software Composition Analysis that can point out errors and fixes for third-party software frameworks, which is very nice. The list goes on... And again, having received, early on, education from them on how best to integrate this in the workflow, those are areas where we've relied on best practices from Veracode.

I'm in healthcare, and it's very important - and I'm sure in other industries just as well - but the stakes are very high. If we get hacked, if there's a data breach, it could put us out of business. It's a very good price point for a small company to have these kinds of capabilities, something we can afford for our application.

I am very likely to recommend it to colleagues. As I mentioned, I brought it to this company, and I've already recommended and provided references to a few other companies over the last couple of years.

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Pradeep Kumar. - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and Director at Bizcarta Technologies India Pvt Ltd

Veracode’s policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations is good. The product's false-positive rate is low. If the tool is used effectively, vulnerable codes do not go into protection.

The SBOM feature helps identify risks in all third-party software. It is quite easy to create a report using the SBOM feature. It is an important feature. The solution provides visibility into application status at every phase of development. We have not integrated it.

Veracode has a good effect on our organization’s ability to fix flaws. Veracode has helped our developers save time. Veracode has a good impact on our organization’s overall security posture. The solution is probably not worth the money. The developers are more confident while fixing vulnerabilities due to the solution’s low false-positive rate.

Overall, I rate the tool a six out of ten.

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Senior software engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

One of the applications we supported through Veracode is designed for use by travelers of an airline. The application handles everything from searching for availability to obtaining tickets.

The solution does not require any maintenance. I am logging into my organization's portal, from which I have a direct link to access Veracode. I do not need to do anything else, such as create content or install anything.

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VD
Lead Security Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Veracode is well-suited for modern programming languages. Veracode is not for scanning large legacy applications with a huge codebase. It also doesn't support some unique languages such as SAP. This could be a challenge for certain people. 

More organizations are taking the left shift approach for application security and trying to integrate security early into their software development life cycle. Veracode is good for such automation.

I would rate Veracode Static Analysis a nine out of ten.

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KS
Lead Consultant DevOps and Infrastructure at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would rate Veracode eight out of ten.

Maintenance is performed by Veracode.

During a Veracode evaluation, consider the following factors: Evaluate the time required for Veracode to complete a scan. Faster scans allow for quicker feedback and integration into development workflows. Consider the overall cost of Veracode, including licensing fees and any associated charges for scans. Assess Veracode's orchestration tools, particularly its compatibility with your existing CI/CD pipeline. Ideally, Veracode should offer seamless integration for easy adoption. Evaluate the availability and variety of connectors Veracode offers for integration with your development tools. A wider range of connectors simplifies the integration process.

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OK
Development Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My advice would be to adopt Veracode to serve your processes. I believe that the processes inside the company shouldn't be changed significantly with the introduction of new tools. Definitely, for each and every new tool, you need to build some process around usage in terms of administration and control. Veracode has a relatively big ecosystem of tools, which is a big advantage, and my advice would be to check all those tools and see how they can fit into your process, and how they can improve them. There are a lot of options and a lot of tools provided by Veracode that can fit each and every process. Whether you are using a waterfall process or DevOps practices in your organization, with Veracode, you can add necessary steps to your process without making significant changes in the processes that you have.

We take security seriously, and Veracode is not the only thing that we have for security. We do manual penetration testing to security test our applications. We also have some dynamic scanning. We follow some practices while engineering and architecting our solutions. At each and every step, we are trying to cover our solution with the necessary security testing activities or security design principles. Veracode is a big part of our security, but it is not the only one. We are fixing all issues, especially those that are non-compliant with our policy.

We don't use any connections with Software Composition Analysis. It is a separate product in the ecosystem that makes it possible for you to deeply scan your third-party libraries. This is the only way we use it. 

In terms of Veracode SCA reducing our overall scan times, I believe that it is not applicable at this point. In the case of agent-based scanning, the situation that we recently had has shown that you cannot fully substitute Software Composition Analysis from a static scan with agent-based. That's because, in the end, documents that you provide together with the release are the policy scan results generated by static scan. You can reduce the amount of time for your scanning, but in the end, you need at least one scan where you will figure out all third-party states as a part of the policy scan report. You cannot use only agent-based Software Composition Analysis because they are two separate sources of information. We can use Software Composition Analysis and then somehow merge results from two sources in one document for it, which is inconvenient. We are having nightly builds for Veracode, and it doesn't matter to us whether it takes more than 30 minutes or less than 30 minutes. We haven't measured the time, but with the approach that we have set in our company, we can leave it for longer time periods, and after nightly build, everything is okay for us. So, Jenkins just does its job of uploading, and no one monitors it. We are just monitoring that the jobs are stable and results are available. Considering that we're doing it at night, it is not that important for us for how long it runs.

It hasn't exactly increased our fix rate because it is not about our code. It is about the third-party code. We definitely have to mitigate, and sometimes, we have to change libraries to a newer version, so it somehow affects our fix rate, but mostly, the static scan affects our fix rate because it shows flaws in our code. So, I don't see any significant improvement with Veracode Software Composition Analysis in terms of our fix rate. I don't see a direct relationship between Veracode Software Composition Analysis and our fix rate, whereas Static Analysis works and gives us the necessary results and plans for fixing and doing our next steps in security.

It has not yet helped our company with certification and audits. We haven't yet shared those green results with our customers, and we didn't have any certifications the last time.

I would rate Veracode Software Composition Analysis a nine out of 10.

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reviewer1360617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Security Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Of all the tools vendors I have relationships with, Veracode is simply our best vendor in terms of partnership, value add, and support responsiveness. 

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AF
Cloud system engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

I would rate Veracode an eight out of ten. Veracode's pricing hinders my overall rating of the solution. 

Veracode was deployed in two regions with 25-plus users.

Veracode requires some maintenance to keep the scanning accurate.

While I highly recommend Veracode, affordability for smaller organizations may be a significant hurdle due to its pricing structure. It's crucial to carefully evaluate their budget constraints and explore alternative solutions if necessary.

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LF
Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It is essential and perfect for preventing vulnerable code from going into production. Nowadays, it is very important and sensible to have a solution like Veracode to know all the vulnerabilities and manage and prioritize the ones that are more critical and better for security posture.

I have not used the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) feature much, but it is easy to create a report using the SBOM feature. It is important for the supply chain that your software uses.

I would rate Veracode a nine out of ten.

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SM
Sponsorship Sales Specialist

We are able to justify the false positives because security flaws are one of the biggest things that Veracode's features help us with.

Overall, the product is good. It has made a very good impression. There are some flaws, as I have mentioned, but overall it looks very good, with the features I've mentioned. The impact on our security has been good. The main challenge for us will be the pricing, but if we ignore that factor, the impact has been very good and we would definitely implement Veracode.

I would suggest having a look at Veracode. Go for a trial of the system to see if Veracode is something that can help solve your problems. Pricing should be ignored because there are definitely some very specific features that help a lot. 

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Calinescu Tudor - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Project Leader at ATOSS AG

Veracode was rated by industry reviews as the top player in this field for static application security testing and SCA. My advice would be to investigate the market because it will give you an idea of what is the best and most cost-effective solution for your company.

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KE
Cybersecurity Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

My advice would be to understand how you want Veracode to function within your environment from a workflow perspective. That way, you can potentially start taking advantage of a lot of the functionality it offers out of the gate, which is something we are not doing yet. We're on a delay until 2022. That is really important. 

Also, in introducing the product to those who will be receiving the output, the findings reports, it would be great to include them in some conversation and collaboration on the move down that Veracode path or, frankly, any path that leads to scanning applications.

Veracode provides guidance for fixing vulnerabilities, although we haven't actually had to utilize that. But as a part of our licensing model, they provide us a certain number of opportunities to engage with someone for consultation.

We are not focusing on using the solution to enhance developer security training right now, although it is a part of our roadmap. We are banking on being able to utilize that aspect of Veracode because we are an Agile environment and we want developers to be able to engage that training. Also, when there are findings, we want our developers to get that assistance in real-time. That is a part of our 2022 strategy. 

We have started out with a much more narrow policy for ourselves because we are just learning about how the tool works and how it functions. But we did evaluate some of Veracode's policies, out of curiosity, and they seem to be very aligned and very helpful. However, I would not be able to speak to whether they are on the money for utilization against compliance frameworks.

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NS
Automation Practice Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

For any company wanting to use Veracode and buying vendor binaries from third party vendors, it's important to get the legal and compliance clearance from the vendor as well. Some vendors have a policy that they're selling you the binary of a particular software but you're not supposed to decode it. Those are the general terms and conditions that every vendor gets you to sign but Veracode does decode and then scans for the vulnerabilities. It's a challenge for any company purchasing the solution from vendors.

I rate the solution six out of 10.

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NS
Lead Cyber Security engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I can be confident about more of our applications in production. We can be more confident against many kinds of external threats. The lesson learnt is about being proactive, which is a good thing in security.

Veracode integrates with our developer tool 95 percent of the time. It is supported very well because developers get to know why the security features are really important in any organization or application along with what they develop. They get to know the market standards of what the security threats are and how to fix them, making sure the coding or the applications are secure enough to move to production. However, with MuleSoft, it does not support most of the API parts.

We use cloud-based applications and take support from the community.

At the moment, we are only using SCA and Static Analysis, which we have been very satisfied with. However, we are not using their DAST or pen testing. 

In our organization, we concentrate on high-end and medium alerts, but we really don't bother much with false positives.

I would rate this solution as a nine (out of 10).

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DM
IT Cybersecurity Analyst at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

The product is very good, very reliable, and they've made a lot of improvements to the dashboards and the reports. They've made the product easy to use. There used to be a lot of things that you had to search for and maneuver to dig deep down for them, but you don't have to do that anymore. Many of the things are now at your fingertips, including performance reports. Those things are easy to get to. 

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CG
Enterprise Architect, VP at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The advice that I would have for people who are new to the product would be to start with a proof of concept. This will help you to see how the product works with your process and people.  

The biggest lesson I have learned from using this solution is that it definitely increased my education on how to prevent application vulnerabilities earlier on and how not to repeat them. It also helped me as a manager to better understand how to guide and coach people.  

On a scale from one to ten where one the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product probably as a  seven, if I am going back in time. I thought that there was room for improvement, but at the same time, it did what we needed it to do. We got what we expected. So I thought it was good, but I also think there were some additional manual steps or work involved that we should not have needed to do. That is really why I do not rate it with a higher number.  

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VR
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I give Veracode an eight out of ten.

Our customer provides us with a Veracode profile account for uploading and testing code. We do not manage the solution or have any insight into how it is deployed.

I highly recommend Veracode for assisting in identifying vulnerabilities in code.

I have learned that Veracode can confidently scan and detect vulnerabilities in code. However, for older or unsupported applications, we need to seek an alternative solution.

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KM
Information Assurance Manager at xMatters

I can give advice to other managers. If they are willing to properly manage, but they don't have the time or the bandwidth to actually operate, it's a very good tool. It's easy to get access to information and it's easy to understand what's going on with your application without much of a burden. You don't have to waste a lot of time trying to understand a complicated report. Everything is accessible. And the amount of information that Veracode gives based on the flaws is very straightforward and makes it easy for the Dev team to fix them.

I would rate it at eight out of 10. The tool itself is a very good tool. The way they work to update the flaws and the findings is very effective. But the support is a little bit expensive and it could be a little bit better. And there are few things that could be updated in the UI, but overall it's a very good tool.

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AS
DevSecOps Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is an excellent solution. I would recommend adopting it. If you come from a security background, Veracode is an easy solution. If you don't come from a security background, the adoption of Veracode will take a bit of time.

Veracode has been integrated with our IDEs. It has been also integrated with our DevOps CI/CD server, which is Bamboo, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD. It is all pretty neat and clean. 

I would rate this solution as a nine out of 10.

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ST
Associate Director

I would rate the product as an eight out of 10 for recommend it to colleagues.

I would rate the overall product as a seven out of 10.

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SN
SVP Application Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I would give Veracode a nine out of 10 because it scales incredibly well, they have very qualified people working there who are able to clearly articulate what the problems are when they are talking in a remediation or consultation call. They are very knowledgeable, they are not condescending when they talk to a developer. The tool is very easy to consume. It's not like looking at a menu with 20 pages at a restaurant, it's very simple to digest. They have a lot of API connectors, they cover a lot of languages and it just scales. You can't beat that. Finally, the relationship is great with them.

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CS
Executive Assistant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

I would rate Veracode an eight out of ten. I recommend Veracode to others.

Veracode's false positives significantly impact our developers. When we encounter numerous false positive cases, we are required to conduct extensive reviews. How much it affects our developers depends on the number of false positive cases we are encountering and the significance of addressing them concerning the criticality of writing the code.

Veracode can save time in our DevSecOps process, but it may not significantly reduce costs.

Organizations that have security flaws in their code and seek to enhance their core security can consider Veracode as one of the best options for investment. Veracode is easy to implement and can effectively address the flaws in the code, provided that cost is not a significant concern.

Maintenance is required from time to time, specifically regarding false positives. We need to verify whether the system is functioning properly and communicate with the support team. The intervals for these checks occur after approximately 30 or 60 days, which we have selected, and we must strive to improve the system during these instances.

Veracode is deployed at two locations within our organization.

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FN
Application Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The process of packaging scannable modules is not straightforward. 

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HM
DevOps Engineer at Barclays Technology

Overall, I'd give Veracode an eight out of ten.

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RL
Security Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you are doing pipeline-based implementation, it would be more complex than the way that I'm doing this, but I didn't see any real challenges that would be tool-specific or vendor-specific, with implementation.

Your development model will really determine what the best fit is for you in terms of licensing, because of the project-based licensing. If you do a few projects, that's more attractive. If you have a large number of developers, that would also make the product a little more attractive. But if you have maybe one or two developers doing many projects, then you might look more towards software that has a developer-centric model.

We don't use the Static Analysis Pipeline Scan because of the build process that our  developers use. They don't really have an automated build pipeline in which they push the code to production. Also, with the false positive rate, it's a bit tricky when you implement that into the pipeline, as it might stop a developer from pushing code out to test. We use it more like a gate. The developers submit the code to us and then we scan it and review it with them.

The biggest lesson I've learned from using Veracode is that you need to manage it with the developers, so that you speak through the findings with them. It's not just a tool that you throw down their throats.

Overall, I would rate it at seven out of 10. Ideally, I would prefer a product that had the interactive testing, as well as the ability to scan a little faster.

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DR
Senior Solutions Architect at NessPRO Italy

When it comes to DevSecOps, in the industry it is still under adoption. With the advent of the cloud and code being there, or on other public platforms, many people have embraced it or are in the process doing so. 

My advice for anybody interested in implementing this solution is to be really careful when choosing your tools. Be very proactive and up-front on the requirements of your systems, because no tool is perfect. You need to find the best fit for each particular use case. I would do a thorough analysis.

As a solution architect, I do small POCs and run initiatives on products to find out various aspects. For example, the technical feasibility of the product is an important aspect. Other important ones are usability, testing, and implementation. Normally, I select at least three products and do a comparative analysis based on the POC. After this, I recommend a particular solution.

I would recommend Veracode. There are plusses and minuses to this solution, but given the chance to use it again I would definitely do so. Every product has its own flaws, but for my use case, it did fit very well.

I would rate this solution an eight and a half out of ten.

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Anshuman Kishore - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Product Development at Mycom Osi

My advice to others would be to follow the instructions and they will not have any issues.

I rate Veracode Static Analysis a seven out of ten.

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DJ
Senior Director, Quality Engineering at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Veracode has evolved to be a good partner, overall, in working through our learning needs and problem escalations. There are layers of training and consultation available, as well as recurring support engagements if the enterprise scanning needs warrant it.

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HJ
Sr Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

I handle software composition analysis. Currently, I'm moving away from Veracode.

I don't know which version of the solution I am using currently. It's not quite the most up-to-date version.

If a company is looking for a long-term partner, and not just a transactional solution, I'd suggest a different company.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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VS
Senior Manager Cyber Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I give Veracode a ten out of ten.

We are using Veracode in multiple locations and departments.

Veracode does not require any maintenance.

Veracode is an extremely user-friendly tool, operating through a web interface. Additionally, the support and guidance offered by the Veracode team are excellent. Considering all of these factors, I believe Veracode should be the choice for anyone.

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RR
Founder & CEO at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees

At the time that we used this solution, we were a startup, the software may not have been that complex. It's not like Oracle.

My advice to others who are interested in using this solution is to pay attention to the full instructions.

I would rate Veracode Developer Training a ten out of ten.

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AB
Principle Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I don't think that Veracode has helped developers with security training, but it helps developers have a reality check on the code that they write and their open source library. That is the best value that developers can get from the product. 

Veracode products can be run as part of the development pipeline. That is also valuable.

It integrates with tools like GitHub or Jenkins. At a high level, it does integrate with most of the pipeline of tools. It would be a showstopper if the incorporation of security was not in the developer workflows. We are past a time when developers or software engineers run a SCA or DAST scan on the code, then hand it off to the development team. What works instead is to inject a security tool in a development pipeline, which is why it is absolutely paramount and important that tools, like Veracode, be a part of the build pipeline.

We limited the user to SAST and SCA. We haven't used any of the penetration testing, especially for the DAST solution that they have. For that, they are behind the curve, meaning that there are other products in the market that are being established. In my opinion, they don't have a viable product for DAST, because I believe they are not even testing APIs. So, it's not mature enough. We also have never used their pen testing because that is one of the services that we provide.

At this point, Veracode is one of the best solutions available, though it's not perfect by any means, but you have to work with whatever you have.

I will give the solution a seven (out of 10). When they integrate the SCA and SAST portions more tightly together, I could probably bump it up to an eight. Also, if they make improvements to the UI and the support, they can get a better rating. However, at this point, I would still pick Veracode for a company who doesn't have a million dollar plus budget.

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it_user831864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application & Product Security Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Regarding measures taken to integrate Veracode into our existing software development lifecycle, we have 100% API integration. We use the Jenkins plugin as a last resort, but we are moving away from that.

The AppSec best practices and guidance to our security and development teams are manifested in the static analysis it provides.

In terms of advice to others looking into implementing this project, I would say don’t use the UI, and do what you can to have license conversations up front.

It depends on the use case and budget, but I would recommend CA Veracode to colleagues.

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MT
Software Architect at Alfresco Software

Usually, we open tickets now using the JIRA/GitHub integration and then we plan them. We decide when we want to fix them and we assign them to developers, mostly because there are some projects that are a little bit more on the legacy side. Changing the version of the library is not easy as in the newer projects, in terms of testing. So we do some planning. But in general, we open tickets and we plan them.

We also have it integrated in the pipelines, but that's really just to report. It's a little bit annoying that the pipeline might break because of security issues. It's good to know, but the fact that that interrupts development is not great. When we tried to put it as a part of the local build, it was too much. It was really getting in the way. The developers worried that they had to fix the security issues before releasing. Instead, we just started creating the issues and started doing proper planning. It is good to have visibility, but executing it all the time is just wrong, from our experience. You have to do it at the right time, and not all the time.

The solution integrates with developer tools, if you consider JIRA and GitHub as developer tools. We tried to use the IntelliJ plugin but it wasn't working straightaway and we gave up.

We haven't been using the container scanning of Veracode, mostly because we are using a different product at the moment to store our Docker images, something that already has some security scanning. So we haven't standardized. We still have to potentially explore the features of Veracode in that area. At the moment we are using Key from IBM Red Hat, and it is also software as a service. When you upload a Docker image there, after some time you also get a security scan, and that's where our customers are getting our images from. It's a private registry.

Overall, I would rate Veracode as a five out of 10, because the functionality is there, but to me, the usability of the user interface is very important and it's still not there.

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it_user873351 - PeerSpot reviewer
CISO at Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings

On the rating scale is there anything above 10? If there are no ones and tens, it would be the closest to 10. They have always been supportive. We have had to change, do course corrections during implementations, or particular types of coding. I have just never had a problem. My loyalty to the product has been primarily due to the service and the expedience in which they solve any problems we have.

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it_user836430 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

In terms of Veracode providing AppSec (application security best practices) and guidance to our teams, they've been able to adapt their scanning and remediation in their SDLC, which is something we did not have really before. It's been a little bit of "not the best honeymoon" so far, doing this with our developers, but they've started coming along here in the past year and a half.

The advice I'd give is look around, make sure it's the right fit for you. Make sure that the tools they offer are a good fit for your organization. And make sure this is something that you really feel would be good for your company. If you aren't currently doing this kind of analysis on your code, I would take a strong look at whether this is something that you really should be doing. It's a different world out there right now.

I would recommend Veracode very highly, especially since the program management staff that I work with from Veracode are some of the best people that I've worked with in this industry.

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it_user778905 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most important criteria when selecting a vendor are

  • reliability
  • customer service.

Take advantage of all of the help that Veracode provides, for implementation, operations, and maintenance, because they absolutely know what they're doing.

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YT
R&D Director at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The solution is efficient when creating secure software. Though, it depends on how you adopt the tool and how frequently you're running it. As long as you keep it as part of your routine and frequently run the tool, you will catch vulnerabilities closer to real-time. Eventually, you will improve the security of your software.

We haven't seen a lot of false positives. However, the tool points us to vulnerabilities to fix, which because of our behavior or software, we don't necessarily need to fix because we have other protections.

We are not using it for cloud software. Our solution is only on-prem.

I would rate this solution as an eight out of 10.

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Christian Camerlengo - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Programmer/Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The biggest lesson I have learned from using Veracode is that there isn't an answer for everything. But when an area needs to be mitigated the mitigation process is fairly easy.

It's pretty efficient, but in my case it took a long time to upload my information. It was a very big project, so I was not surprised that it took a long time, but it was mostly because of the internet around here. It would take a long time to upload the DLL and run the static analysis. It would take about two hours, but again, it's a large project.

Overall, it does a very good job of preventing vulnerable code from going into production. It identified issues that were not detected in penetration tests and allowed us to lock them down.

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MV
Cybersecurity Expert at PSYND

We were skeptical about running scans with a cloud-based solution, but then we saw the benefits. Everything is up to date without us having to lift a finger. We know we don't have to take care of maintenance. 

Also, if you work in the domain of medical devices, payment methods, or other things that are related to privacy, Veracode provides all these modules. This is a big advantage.

Sometimes the scans are not done quickly, but the solutions that it provides are really good. The quality is high, but the analysis is not done extremely quickly.

False positives are not a main problem. The platform does try to overprotect but, of course, a system like this can only understand the syntax and not the semantics. So it's overprotective when there is a doubt. Sometimes, we ignore some of the advice received.

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SH
Chief Information Security Officer with 501-1,000 employees

I would absolutely recommend Veracode. I've suggested to one of the larger agencies that they implement the solution and that they come to see what we've experienced and how we use the tool.

I really like Veracode. That is one of the reasons that we brought them onboard ten years ago. Of course, they were new back then. The different aspects of the offerings that Veracode provides to their customers are somewhat unique and, right now, I couldn't ask another thing from them.

We have approximately 30 Java developers and four or five testers. There are also project managers using it. We have one person who manages running of the scans and that person might have one or two other people to help.

We haven't really been utilizing it to its full potential. We probably utilize it once or twice per quarter. We are planning to increase the capacity that we've purchased. However, we're getting ready to elect a new governor in Ohio. With that election, things will change, according to his or her desires. Right now, we're in a holding pattern waiting for November to come and go.

In terms of integrating the solution into our existing software development lifecycle, because we started so long ago - before the software development lifecycle was fully implemented - we were doing Veracode testing just because it was a good idea. Then we actually developed a lifecycle. We got into scrums and it just naturally worked its way in, so when we actually hired a testing group, Veracode was already a part of the process.

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SK
Director Software Engineering at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have made process changes and improvements, although Veracode is not tightly integrated into our CI/CD platform yet.

I am very likely to recommend to colleauges that they work with CA Veracode.

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DA
DevOps and Cloud Architect at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

It's important to understand your environment and know the specific use cases for your organization. Creating good orchestration application metrics is very important.

I rate this product eight out of 10.

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Raj Nachiappan - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Solutions Architecture at VetsEZ

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

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Product Security Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are accessing via a web browser to Veracode. I'm guessing it's some type of cloud deployment, hosted by Veracode.

We have a lot of applications that are scanned with Veracode. We did scans for some of our core products, as well as on-demand products, and web applications. I'm mostly working with web applications for now. 

Based on my experience, new users should check as many features as they can, and also read the reports carefully. That way, they can get a full picture of how this product works.

I'd rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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BM
Assistant Vice President of Programming and Development at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I would definitely recommend CA Veracode.

Just make sure you define a process for your developers prior to implementing the technology.

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Jesus Montes Ceron - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect of solutions at IPComMx

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. It is a good solution for security. In my personal opinion, there are not many products like Veracode in the market. 

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JS
Senior Software Developer at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees

It is a robust software service for security analysis. It seemed to be pretty full-featured. We didn't exercise every single thing. Just a few of the features didn't seem to be up to snuff for our needs.

I would rate Veracode Manual Penetration Testing an eight out of ten.

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it_user673734 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Be aware that the first run will find a lot of issues, many of which are not real issues; it will take time to understand that. Don't change object names as that will confuse it. Make sure you get development buy-in early.

We're looking to expand its use within the development organization and are looking into another license. Currently, we have four users of the solution, myself (security) and developers. The four of us also maintain it.

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EP
Professor at BitBrainery University

I wish Veracode support had more SDLC integration tools.

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it_user866175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer Team Lead at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My advice is what I mentioned in the pricing/licensing section above, you really need to understand what it is you are looking to do.

Also, take into account a data sensitivity for the applications. It's not "one policy fits all." I really like that Veracode allows me to set up specific policies that I can apply to applications. Understand which are your critical apps that deal with critical, very sensitive data, and then apply a more rigorous scan model to them, versus internal applications that perhaps don't deal with as much PII, with as much sensitive information, and aren't available to the outside world. Those might have a lower risk footprint. Understand that, so when your developers go in there you are not treating every single thing like it is a public-facing, client-data-gathering, credit-card-processing web app. That way your developers can prioritize what they need to work on, so that you are delivering the right metrics to your leadership.

You really need to understand that strategy going in, because the tool is not going to help you determine that. The tool is only going to help you scan.

The only reason I don't rate it a nine or a 10 out of 10 is because we haven't hit those scalability roadblocks yet. I know we might have some challenges in the future, but I would say eight out of 10 is an incredibly good score for a product like this. If you were just asking me about the support and the people behind it, I would rate that a nine or a 10. If you bundle it all together it's an eight.

I recommend Veracode to colleagues all the time.

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it_user797976 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Application Security at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

I hold Veracode in high regard. It's a good organization to work with, and it's a very conscientious organization. I'm always a recommender of the solution set.

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SeshagiriSriram - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT Architecture at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

I would strongly recommend doing an internal analysis first, before setting it across to Veracode to proceed and to use it more as a final verification point. My point is that Veracode is very good, and I would strongly recommend it. I have seen other solutions on the market and that's why I say: don't waste your time on other products, just get Veracode.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. Not a ten because of the reporting issues I mentioned that I would like to see improved.

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it_user797976 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Application Security at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

I never give 10s. I would give it a nine. It does nearly everything, but penetration testing. It covers such a broad breadth of our portfolio. In our business, we have applications written in so many different languages. Finding something that can consistently scan and not generate false positives across the paradigm or the whole ecosystem of languages, that is impressive. It is speed of inspection, the accurateness of the inspection outcomes, and frankly, it has fairly good business analytics embedded on the platforms. So, it does a lot more for us than not.

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RO
IT security architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is good at finding issues and provide some very useful tools. I would advise those wanting to implement this solution to purchase professional support from the vendor. If you do not, you run the risk of having many problems such as the ones we have faced.

The DAST tool is very useful and is used in preproduction.  

I rate Veracode a six out of ten.

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SS
Head Of Information Security at a media company with 51-200 employees

My advice would be to definitely have some code that has a lot of security defects embedded into it and to run it through the scanner to test it early on in the process, ideally during the evaluation process. If your company works in five programming languages, you would want to create some code in each of those languages, code that has a lot of security defects, and then run the scanner over it to just make sure it can catch the security vulnerabilities you need it to catch and that it's consistent with how it raises those vulnerabilities.

Veracode provides guidance for fixing vulnerabilities but that doesn't enable developers to write secure code from the start. The way the product works is it scans code that has already been written and then raises issues about the security problems found in the code. That is the point at which the developer sees the issue and can look at the remediation advice Veracode gives, and the possible training. But it doesn't allow them to write secure code in the first place, unless they really remember everything. It does educate them about it, but it's usually after the fact.

The solution provides policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulation. While those features were not applicable to us, they were in there. I think they would be very useful for anyone working in a high-compliance industry.

It also provides visibility into application status across all testing types, including SAST, DAST, SCA, and manual penetration testing, in a centralized view. If you buy the SAST and DAST license, of course you'll see those scan results inside that view, but to see the pen testing that means you'd have to buy pen testing from them as well. Seeing those testing types in one view didn't really affect our AppSec. It's nice for the security team, but it's just not that important because they weren't in there everyday looking at it. Since we had the JIRA integration, the defects would flow into JIRA. The software engineers would take a look at it and categorize whether it was something they could fix or something that was in a vendor's library. The software engineers would prioritize the things that they could fix, and if it was in a vendor's library, I would batch those up and communicate them to the vendor.

Overall, I would grade Veracode as a "B" when it comes to its ability to prevent vulnerable code from going into production. It will find everything that's wrong, but it doesn't have enough tuning parameters to make it easier for organizations without compliance burdens to use it more effectively.

Overall, it's pretty solid. I would give it an eight out of 10.

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EC
AVP, IS Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would recommend it. It covers all our custom-developed applications and will expand as new applications and services are added.

We have 50-plus users of Veracode. Their roles include InfoSec, developers, development managers, QA, and configuration management. In terms of deployment and maintenance, we have four people in configuration management and InfoSec.

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it_user854784 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Security and Risk OMNI Cloud Operations at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We recommend Veracode to colleagues all the time.

I'd give the advice of not getting hung up on trying to compare the static scanning to the dynamic scanning, that's number one. Don't even compare them. If you're doing neither, do statics first. It'll get the majority of your exposures addressed. Then you come in, in a second round, and do dynamic. Dynamic really becomes more of a confirmation of security.

The other piece of advice I'd give is to "follow the directions." Make sure they understand how they're supposed to compile code. Take the advice of the program management team with their code, and follow their lead, and you'll come out in a very good position very quickly.

I'd give Veracode a 10 out of 10 because the rate at which we gained control of our security posture, from a development perspective, was fast. There is a lack of wasted time on our developer organization in chasing down erroneously reported vulnerabilities. The erroneous reported vulnerabilities is very low, and that means that our developer time is very effective as we investigate a reported issue. As I said, it's 96, 98 percent probability it is real. So our developers gain confidence and don't second-guess the results. 

The level of detail that we are provided for a given vulnerability - the data path that it follows, the precision with which the justification is provided - is very high. Again, you're highly confident in the result. You are provided a tremendous amount of detail about the vulnerability it found. And the rate at which you can ramp up and be productive is very fast.

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it_user842937 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

I would advise that you figure out a way to integrate it into your software development lifecycle in a way that it's not intrusive to your developers. That was really something that I set out to do. I didn't want my developers to have to go into their code, and kick off scans, and upload their code. So, I would really suggest looking at your integrations, your JIRA, your Jenkins, all of your add-ons, and hopefully that fits into the SDLC process, and then automating via their API.

Essentially, what we were able to achieve is, my developers still live within JIRA and the issues get opened from Veracode into JIRA and they work on things that way. They can remediate it, kick it that way, and if they need to they can log into Veracode. But I'd suggest making the SDLC process integrated as much as you can to make it something that developers aren't having to spend a lot of time doing every day.

Overall, I would give Veracode a nine out of 10, just because nothing is perfect. But it does everything for us and it was so painless. I speak very highly of it for those reasons.

I would highly recommend CA Veracode. Every engineer that I've dealt with has been really sharp. The review process they have is really good and the knowledge they have has been tremendous. I really recommend working with them.

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SB
L3 Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It is a very good product. Veracode Fix is also there. It gives very good solutions about the code and its reusability and fixes. It has been there for the last 17 years. Without such a solution, it is very difficult to find vulnerabilities and manage fixes. 

I would recommend using Veracode. It has good features. It scans your source code and your third-party libraries. There are a lot of new products in the market, but Veracode is good.

Overall, I would rate Veracode an 8 out of 10.

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it_user877104 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Worldwide Delivery Acceleration at a financial services firm

Make sure the supported  languages align with your developers.

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it_user854049 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Compliance Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Have them guide you through your first scan - make sure to add hours to your initial contract for that.

I am very likely to recommend Veracode to colleagues.

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it_user873348 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

For us, whenever we are selecting a partner, vendors to work with who are going to be working with our customers, we have to make sure that they align regarding customer support philosophy, and that is the reason we selected to work with Veracode.

I would definitely rate Veracode a 10 out of 10, based on our customer feedback. Whenever we know the relationship is going well between Veracode and our customers, it reflects very well on us.

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HB
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've participated in some of the online courses, which helped. There are some levels that the team should have. You follow some courses, you get to level one, and then you move on to the next level. Each level of certification was really useful to learn about some of the flaws and some of the vulnerabilities that we could face. They give you some great use cases and how to remedy things in C# and many different languages. The online course also shows you how a developer can make some mistakes in his code, and how those mistakes can be used to bypass app security. By knowing that, you can avoid doing it in the future.

There were also some events organized recently—security labs—and they were also useful. There were tasks and I even had to work on them outside of work, but they were really helpful and a challenge.

The training also helped us to identify the existing vulnerabilities in our code and some of the third-parties that we are using that have vulnerabilities in them. We know we need to upgrade them.

My advice is that you should follow the training, initially. It was really helpful, even at the first level. Then, go on and read all the detailed documentation online. There are even some video tutorials which are really helpful. These are the steps that I followed.

There is a section on the supported frameworks. Veracode supports a wide variety of languages, but it would be good to check that before diving into the analysis and why it's not detecting your code.

I have been really satisfied with the areas of Veracode that I have had a chance to work with.

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it_user873345 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I give Veracode a solid nine out of 10 because it is a full-featured product. It is not just something that they are selling to you and then leaving you to figure out how to use it. They actually help you every single step of the way and they want to show you how to do it. 

Their testers, their application security consultants, really help you and help educate the developers. They walk you through every step of the way.

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it_user846645 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Development

I am highly likely to recommend Veracode to colleagues.

Make sure, once you scan and find issues with your code, that the developers know how to remediate those issues so they don't go through them again.

It's going to take some time to get through your first set of scans and mitigations. To fix your code is not straightforward. But once you do that and implement it back through your whole development cycle, they identify the issues and it's very easy to fix them, once you know and have gone through it once.

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it_user837504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

In terms of integrating Veracode into our existing software development lifecycle, as our two existing applications are quite mature, and not changed often, we have not taken steps to have Jenkins or another CI tool that would allow us to get the full power from the Veracode environment. We look forward doing it, starting with the next app that gets developed from scratch.

CA Veracode provided AppSec best practices and guidance to our security and development team during the kickoff phase. They offered assistance on specific code issues that were hard to fix, and guidance on preparing a credible set of rules for Veracode policy, all this at no additional cost.

As Veracode licensing is generally time-related, I suggest you start the subscription once everything is ready for consumption, assign a specific person to it and declaring it mandatory at the policy level. Losing two months of great value because the devs are too busy, or because they think they don’t need it, or they fear the results, or because no one is taking charge of the Veracode process, is really a pity. Once the clock starts ticking, try to take advantage as much as you can.

I would recommend Veracode to anyone involved in high-risk environments.

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AE
Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

We were part of the initiation when the company started. They introduced it and we began using the solution. We're just a customer.

For those companies hoping to automate the solution, I would not recommend it. It's too difficult for those heavily dependant on automation. However, for those companies who want to manually use it, I can recommend the solution. In those cases, it's easy to use even if you won't build it as a part of your automation test tools or on any internet server.

I'd rate them eight out of ten. I'd rate them higher, but they have bad automation and terrible documentation. Other than that, they are very good.

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it_user835104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

When asked, we let our customers and partners know that we use Veracode and that we are happy with it.

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VV
Senior Project Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We are customers and end-users. We don't really have a business relationship with Veracode.

I'm more from the performance testing side of things. I've just added the security testing to my list of responsibilities recently.

We're using a mix of deployment models. We use both on-premises and cloud deployments. 

It's a good tool. I've done some comparisons with both SAST and DAST. It gives us this end-to-end sort of feature that we appreciate. Therefore, rather than you doing SAST with one tool and DAST with another tool, I prefer going with Veracode, which offers both. 

You can learn both static and dynamic scans with a single tool. You could effectively negotiate a price and do that. If you got some simple apps, from a CAC standpoint, I'd recommend folks to use Veracode.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. 

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Raj Nachiappan - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Solutions Architecture at VetsEZ

In summary, I think that this is a good tool and I recommend it for helping with security in software development.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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it_user833553 - PeerSpot reviewer
CISSP, CISM at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I recommend CA Veracode all the time. I am a public speaker, frequently on the speaker circuit, and I recommend it all the time. There are really three solutions at the top of the industry ratings, and Veracode is the best, in my opinion.

We are a good customer and we had been for a long time. I actually am a bit of an evangelist for them when I'm doing public speaking.

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it_user697020 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer/Architect at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

If it's the first time you are using a security application, be ready for some new tools which you will require you to revitalize the flaws reported.

Reports are very well documented. Once you understand what it means and you get used to it, you will see that it is detailed and clearly explained.

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AM
Chief Executive Officer at Cybrella

I rate Veracode Manual Penetration Testing a nine out of ten.

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it_user854052 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Technology. at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Do your research, make sure you implement the tools you need.

I am very likely to recommend Veracode to a colleague.

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it_user841116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Lead Analyst at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

I recommend it all the time.

It's an important aspect of a complete security program. Not necessarily this product, but source code, fraud detection.

I'd give it an eight out of 10 because it's pretty straightforward, but you still have to mostly wrap it with organizational policies that encourages its use. It's not a product - and I don't think it's really a product category - that sells itself to the end-user. They see benefits, but they do have to be convinced to use it.

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it_user873405 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Implement this solution if you see WAF and SOC in your future.

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it_user920715 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

My advice for anybody who is interested in implementing this solution is to ensure that your technology is actually supported because the coverage is quite patchy. It is possible that if you use a framework or a language that Veracode does not support then it will give quite poor results.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

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Associate Consultant at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Overall, SourceClear is working fine for us and our main complaint is in regard to the high number of false positives. Nonetheless, I would recommend Checkmarx over SourceClear.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

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it_user833550 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Services at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

I would be highly likely to recommend working with CA Veracode to colleagues. 

I rate it an eight out of 10. It's a good product - I can't say that it's lighting my world on fire - but it does what it needs to do.

Just be prepared that it's going to take effort from all aspects of the business to be able to utilize and achieve the goal that you're looking to achieve with the product.

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it_user854046 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Release Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I am very likely to recommend Veracode to colleagues. Veracode is great.

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