Sonatype secures the software supply chain and protects organizations' vital software development lifecycle(SDLC). The platform unites security teams and developers to accelerate digital innovation without sacrificing security or quality across the SDLC. With users among more than 2,000 organizations and 15 million software developers, Sonatype tools and guidance help users to deliver and maintain exceptional and secure software.
Sonatype nexus platform is an excellent choice in comparison to the other products. As a platform it is a combination of various modules plus it comes with the support. So its a great choice for organizations which are not looking for open source. Nexus comes with LifeCycle and …
Sonatype Platform is complete tool for Software Composition Analysis. Allows policy enforcement at full SDLC which helps organizations identify and manage open-source components and dependencies, along with policy for licenses and also has additional feature for firewall. But …
Sonatype Platform's Nexus Lifecycle performs pretty great while talking about security vulnerabilities. It uses multiple vulnerability databases and provides really detailed reports. The tool is easy to use for endusers on different levels: within the IDE, CI pipeline and in …
We chose Sonatype Platform due to its feature and support. Sonatype Platform slaes team and support team is very co-operative and quick in action. And importantly Sonatype Platform has all products which suits our CICD journey. Sonatype Platform is easy to implement and …
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JFrog is a very strong competitor for the Sonatype Platform and in some areas beats Sonatype's configuration, for example on the default options for retention, cleanup and backups. However, Sonatype Platform has easy integration at Enterprise scale, is transparant on it's …
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JFrog's architecture is significantly ahead of Sonatype's implementation. It would be a lot easier to globally manage a JFrog solution than a Sonatype solution. JFrog's UI is more user friendly and has more features. JFrog, however, is significantly behind Sonatype in the …
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Out of other products we evaluated before choosing Sonatype, the later looked far more user friendly, easy to understand and work with. This was key for us, as the tool needs to be used by many engineers that don't have security as their main focus. Having a tool that is easy …
Some reasons for going with the Sonartype Nexus Platform was that it fulfilled our requirements and it was commonly used by other companies so it was fairly easy to find people who knew how to use the platform. The Sonartype Nexus Platform also had the possibility for us to …
For a medium to large size organization with the possibility to setup a central support team to support the governance, maintenance and implementation of the Sonatype Platform, the product suite from Sonatype is very well suited. Setting up detailed configurations requires quite some effort and deep understanding of the Sonatype Platform. Whenever needed the support teams from Sonatype are available for technical and functional support. As well the Innovate platform of Sonatype offers customers to interact on specific topics and set up customer reference calls.
Nexus firewall is a great feature enabled for all our proxy repositories which are used to download the third-party opensource packages.
Nexus IQ is integrated with build stage to analyze the component against evaluation policy. This helps to figure out the application security standards.
Nexus IQ is also having a feature to scan container images before it uploads to our private repository. This is great feature for container platforms.
Recommendations for best Energy Consumption options based on existing BOM - e.g. replace component X with component Y to reduce CPU cycles.
More specific recommendations regarding Open Source Licensing - not just saying "Copyleft" but the next level of analysis (it's difficult - but would save a lot of time)
Provide specific component replacement options where no "next version" resolves a high severity vulnerability.
Sonatype supports more than 200 dev(s). It proves with the repository to store the artifacts. Allows for governance of open source software used by the different teams. It is used by security teams to scan for vulnerabilities in software(s) and in the deployed containers. It helps ensure code quality.
Out of other products we evaluated before choosing Sonatype, the later looked far more user friendly, easy to understand and work with. This was key for us, as the tool needs to be used by many engineers that don't have security as their main focus. Having a tool that is easy to understand and work with, makes the process of evaluating open source dependencies much easier and appealing for developers.