Contrast Security headquartered in Los Altos provides Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) via Contrast Assess, which works by deploying an intelligent agent that instruments the application with smart sensors to analyze code in real-time from within the application.
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Veracode
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Veracode is a software security firm that identifies flaws and vulnerabilities across the software development lifecycle. Veracode’s Software Security Platform uses advanced AI algorithms trained on vast datasets of code, for more precise identification and rectification of security flaws.
The overall product selection was done by someone else for many reasons. What I liked more about Contrast than Veracode was the type of results it gave. Findings were a lot more actionable since these were observable exploits that could be easily tested by the security team …
Our organization uses both Fortify and Veracode. Veracode is great for any applications using third party components and testing applications that Fortify doesn't support. Veracode is typically faster with supporting new technologies, given the reliance on binaries as compared …
Veracode is good at identifying flaws that does not adhere to the OWASP top 10 security controls. Therefore, a Junior developer could produce code and flaws will be caught. There is also the software composition analysis that provided a view into third-party dependencies. Veracode may not be suited in cases where you need to have your scan results in a short amount of time.
Veracode's static code analysis platform provides in-depth information as well as very useful suggestions regarding mitigation for flaws it discovers. This is very helpful in assisting developers towards a speedy and complete mitigation.
Veracode does well to keep connected with their customers, ensuring the success of their customers on their platform is evidently one of their goals which they hold highly. This responsiveness continues into their technical support which is both helpful and fast to respond.
Veracode continues to update their platforms, their capabilities, and their research often; the promise of continuous improvement from all facets provides value to us as an organization.
At this time, and we just renewed a month ago, I dont see any products out there overall that can offer what Veracode does. Yes, its not cheap by any means, but for the money its the best application security scanning tool out there.
- Almost no setup required and easy to configure - Very easy to use, intuitive UI with integrated analytics and learning portals. - Seamless to review the results, triage them, generate reports. - Security progression of the product/application is tracked via successive scans. - Privileges/Roles nicely fine grained and tightly controlled to let teams "view" only their products.
Overall, Veracode support is helpful, community support is great, and documentation is available for self-service. Our Customer Success Manager is very helpful and reaches out regularly to see if we need assistance. We have not utilized many of the other resources offered by Veracode, however, in the future we would like to leverage secure coding training for our Development teams.
We use it as a SAS service, so really just getting our teams to mold the use of Veracode into their SDLC has been a process of years in the making. It comes down to what your teams are ready and willing to accept and change. Management is key in getting their groups on board with using it regularly. If it doesnt have management backing, your security teams have little to no influence in getting this process off the ground fully.
Mend.IO formerly WhiteSource software is a product we used prior to Vericode. It did not have all of the capabilities or depth of Vericode. Additionally, Whitesource did not offer automatic scanning as part of their product and there was no Certification program to speak of.
Developers are now realizing that security is there to help them, not just the people saying NO.
When setting up Veracode integrations we found that Devs really like their IDEs and Repos. It's like a personal choice. However, as a company, it was unwieldy without devoting people to Veracode integrations to have so many so we had to slime the available IDEs to 3 and Repos to 3, just to be able to set up and maintain the integrations.
Veracode is paying for itself (though through a different cost category). Our Development costs are going down and releases are getting quicker and more agile.