Black Duck Software Composition Analysis (SCA) vs. Trend Micro Cloud One - Application Security

If you are using a lot of open-source libraries, which is most likely, this is a must-have to ensure no known vulnerabilities slip into production

Incentivized

Scenarios where it's well suited - 1) AWS cloud environments where application security and ZTN is a must. 2) One-stop-shop for centralized discovery of apps/workloads. 3) Custom reporting client needs. 4) CI/CD pipeline - easy to design DevOps cycles.

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• Quick inventory scan: Black Duck helps us scan the code repositories in no time. And quickly list the components and I now really know what is in my code.
• Security and License risk management: Black Duck being rich in its knowledge base about the vulnerabilities and license issues of open source components, quickly compares the identified inventory to the Black Duck knowledge base and lists all the vulnerabilities and license issues in the code.
• Integration for automatic scanning: Black Duck is part of devops which provides us automatic scanning. Black Duck is not just for devops but also SecOps.

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• Easy integration with AWS environment
• holistic protection - workload and network security
• Monitoring capabilities - SIEM tools which helps in RCA analysis.

Incentivized

• License model based on usage is costly.
• Documentation is extensive, but often confusing.
• Black Duck Hub could use some feature improvements for more robust governance capabilities

Incentivized

• Found a tad difficult in case of hybrid cloud environments - VMware specific etc
• API calls did not work well with only a few applications ( SNOW etc), most of it is fine
• Professional services / Support - dedicated customer support should be more proactive, flexible

Incentivized

Support seems very responsive.

Incentivized

Black Duck is an obvious choice, with its versatility, integration, best enterprise support and on top of the list the knowledge base Black Duck has. Vega or Grabber also scans the application and tells about vulnerabilities. But it can never be compared with the feature set of Black Duck. Black Duck can also generate reports.

Incentivized

1) flexible customer support and PoV assistance as compared to other vendors 2) Quick TAT turnaround, and easy sampling - Automation features are smooth to use and leverage 3) Our client was interested in this solution since they heard it from one of their other partners from USA - So, this solution was already a step ahead, we just had to pick it up and get used to it

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• It is hard to measure ROI since Black Duck Hub saves us from costly legal battles that have thankfully never had to happen.

Incentivized

• Our single PoV helped few customers already - RoI return - Excellent
• GTM strategy - Go to Market worked - Saved potentially 500k USD minimum for client - within few months
• Allianz assistance - client support in planning helped to further smoothen the RoI cycle, we have planned upto FY 23 for our healthcare client

Incentivized