Acunetix by Invicti vs SonarQube

Likelihood to Recommend

It is suited well for ad-hoc and scheduled application vulnerability scans. You must review the results to manually filter out false-positives. You must always keep in mind that this is only a vulnerability scan. It can only find a certain class of vulnerabilities, and it can only do that so well. You should definitely not rely on this tool alone for identifying problems. That being said, I have used it along with every other major commercial vulnerability scanner and find it to the best overall ROI compared to more expensive commercial scanners that don't necessarily give you a better user experience or better vulnerability results. I rarely need support from the vendor, but when I do, they have been responsive and able to solve the issue quickly.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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SonarQube has a friendly UI that is easy to use and understand. The admin's control panel is very good and It's not really difficult to get through the settings. Its possible to build many rules that apply for each programming language, for example, .NET, and Java. You can easily set up rules and even with the community version. It's a great tool but you have to have a good project plan before being introduced to the tools. I would recommend using the SonarQube open-source version to get used to it before purchasing the license. Before we go with an enterprise product, we have to know the terms and how things are done to run software quality

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Debobrata Bose

Solution Architect

Danske IT and Support Services India Pvt LtdFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Fast.
Easy-to-use.
Great customer support.
Reporting features.
Supports importing state files from other popular application testing tools.
Has other features built-in beyond just scanning for vulnerabilities.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Generating code quality report
Calculates junit coverage of the codebase very efficiently and precisely
Highlights the bugs and vulnerabilities in our codebase
Informs the user of the improvements which can be done to the code to make it cleaner
SonarQube also suggests remediation and resolution of the problems it highlights

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shaurya jain

digital tech developer associate

AccentureInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Does not support multiple endpoints well (e.g. apps and services that do not reside at the same URL).
Has authentication problems with modern enterprise apps which involve a lot of redirects to unrelated endpoints, federated IDs, SSO, etc. This is related to the first point.
The vulnerability detection capability is not as robust as Burp Suite Pro + extensions, Metasploit + auxiliary modules, Nmap + scripts, etc.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Local dashboard wont work without java installed on your machine
If talking about the local ui the configuration may be quite complex. Needs an experts advise
Its enterprise edition cost a fortune depending on a company size or users that may use it.

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Arush Soel

DevOps Engineer

Bebo Technologies Pvt LtdComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

Acunetix by Invicti Editions & Modules

Edition

Websites Scanned: 5	$4,500
Websites Scanned: 6-10	$7,200
Websites Scanned: 11-20	$10,800
Websites Scanned: 21-35	$22,540
Websites Scanned: 36-50	$26,600
Websites Scanned: Over 50	Contact for quote

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

SonarQube Editions & Modules

Edition

Community	Free
Developer EDITION	Starts at $150²
Enterprise EDITION	Starts at $20,000³
Data Center EDITION	Starts at $130,000⁴

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100,000 Lines of Code
1 Million Lines of Code
20 Million Lines of Code

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Support Rating

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SonarQube 9.0

Based on 2 answers

We we easily able to integrate the SonarQube steps into our TFS process via the Microsoft Marektplace, we didn't have the need to call SonarQube support. We've used their online documentation and community forum if we ran into any issues.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Every year, we re-evaluate the tools we are using and licensing. We balance the ever-changing vendor licensing-models, costs, tool features/usability, etc. For the last few years, this has been the best overall commercial tool for our specific use case. However, this is only one of many tools that we use and need.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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I personally evaluated klocwork in a previous company and it worked well for Static Code Analysis for C++ applications but the Java support was not as good as SonarQube. Also the overall tooling and integrations provided by SonarQube is stellar and very other competitors can provide such services and IDE integrations.The output results from SonarQube tests can be easily read, including by other services for automation purposes, and creating reports for audits or other teams is nice and easy.

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Daniel Anjos

Product Design/Development Engineer

TransferwiseFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Saved money compared to other commercial scanners, especially over the long run.
Scan speed seems to be pretty good compared to some of the bulkier commercial products out there. However, that largely has to do with proper configuration.
A downside is that is requires a bit of extra work just to get it set up to scan APIs, web services, etc.

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Aaron Bryson

Director - Red Team (Application, Mobile, Cloud, IoT security, etc.)

Cylance, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Our client is quite pleased with the demonstration of this tools
Our organisation is using a community edition right now but is planning to migrate to a enterprise version to use it commercially.
It is quite a costly tool but our organisation is willing to buy it for its enhanced features and security

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Arush Soel

DevOps Engineer

Bebo Technologies Pvt LtdComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Acunetix by Invicti vs SonarQube