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    Veracode

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Veracode provides advanced application security solutions, trusted by enterprises to develop and maintain secure software. Its platform identifies exploitable risks, speeds up vulnerability remediation, and reduces security debt at scale using a proprietary AI-assisted remediation engine.N/A

    Visual Studio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

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    Pricing
    VeracodeVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
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    Professional
    $45.00
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    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    VeracodeVisual Studio
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    VeracodeVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Veracode
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode seems to provide better support and good scan coverage. Veracode also provides multiple scan types like Dynamic, Static Code, Software Composition which others may only offer 1 or 2. I might be missing it but some others like Sentinel provide schedule monthly, …
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    Chose Veracode
    We used Accunetix as well mainly for web site security testing. We used Veracode for code and third party analysis.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Sonar cube was quicker, but not as thorough. Both integrated into our CI/CD pipeline, however the integration for Veracode is more straight forward.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode stands out as the best of breed for all types of AppSec scanners.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    As the developer, not the business stakeholder, I did not select Veracode specifically. However, after using the application I believe it was the right choice. Veracode is thorough in its analyses, in its database of flaws, in its methodology of uncovering vulnerabilities, and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    The product is required especially from the customer. Veracode does have some advanced features and functionality against another product. For example: Veracode provides a very detailed documentation, which covers most of technologies or use case in software development. It can …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    It is company's higher authorities' decision to use Veracode over other products
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode has been longer on the market and has build the good reputation. We appreciate that they constantly improving the quality of their software and adding new features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    The Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS) product that we've used is similar to the Veracode Dynamic Application (DA) scanning tool. Overall, the Veracode DA scanning offers a better interface and an easier-to-read analysis report, which identifies and gives links into specific …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    SonarQube or Sonar Cloud focuses on scanning for coding good practice and code security is not covered as extensively as Veracode. SonarQube is free but required installation on an on-prem server. Subscription to Sonar Cloud (Saas version of Sonar Qube) is cheaper but does not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    SonarQube is faster and can be free, but the security scanning capabilities are a joke compared to Veracode.
    Unlike SonarQube, Veracode goes deeper into finding a very wide variety of vulnerabilities and best practices that should be applied to software and provides reporting …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    I used AppScan for dynamic scanning when it was IBM, but it was too clunky and hard to use. Developers and testers needed to spend quite a bit of time configuring scans. I also used Checkmarx for static scanning and it was faster, but it requires you to install on your own …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    I don't recall the other products we reviewed, but certainly, Veracode had the best reputation for providing product review and customer confidence ratings.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Mathematica Policy Research has used a few open source tools to perform SAST. The open source products do not hold up with Veracode. We have also written some of our own custom SAST applications for specific web products. We do not use Veracode for Dynamic Application Security …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    VeracodeVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (144 ratings)
    9.1
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.3
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (29 ratings)
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
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    Performance
    2.7
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    7.6
    (67 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.5
    (4 ratings)
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    Configurability
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    6.4
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    Product Scalability
    6.4
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    Vendor post-sale
    6.4
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    VeracodeVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Veracode
    Veracode helped us our team's developers in saving time significantly. For instance, if I take a library and assume it's going to work until it reaches QA or UAT, where we find out there's a vulnerability, that can require extensive effort for code refactoring or redesigning; Veracode helps prevent that before the pull request is merged.
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    Microsoft
    When working with base C# code for desktop and web projects, then Microsoft Visual Studio is ideal as it provides the libraries and interfaces needed to quickly create, test and deploy solutions. It is when slightly more complex scenarios are required that issues can arise. The built-in integration for things like PowerBI Paginated Reports and dashboards is far from ideal.
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    Pros
    Veracode
    • It is good at recommending fixing issues with third-party dependencies used in application code with detailed version information and knowing which version fixes what.
    • It has a very nice interface for triaging flaws. One can sort the vulnerabilities found in code from Very Likely to be exploited to least likely to be exploited.
    • There is a collections feature that allows us to group together groups of application profiles belonging to the same suite of applications.
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    • I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
    • If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
    • The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
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    Cons
    Veracode
    • Scan results stability: from one scan to another, additional flaws appear whereas code did not change.
    • Entry points selection: hard to be sure selection is optimal, should be automatized or hidden.
    • Branches management: we currently use sandboxes to scan different branches of our software. Would be good to have real branches management.
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    Microsoft
    • Would be great if there was a better way to save and restore open tabs.
    • The built-in test runner can be improved, for example, by adding the ability to save a set of commonly run tests, etc.
    • Better integration for Microsoft SQL server would be great.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Veracode
    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.
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    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
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    Usability
    Veracode
    - 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.
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    Microsoft
    I love the overall usability of Microsoft Visual Studio. I’ve been using this IDE for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen it evolve by leaps and bounds. Today, with AI and code-suggestion/completion features, developers no longer need to remember countless libraries, methods, or language syntax, or invest a huge amount of programming effort to complete a project. It truly offers everything a developer needs to program, debug, test, and deploy in a single IDE.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Veracode
    Veracode has always been up and available to us.
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    Microsoft
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    Performance
    Veracode
    At this point, it runs well and mostly in a timely fashion. Dynamic scans take days but this may be a config issue still to be resolved.
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    Veracode
    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.
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    Microsoft
    There are many resources available supporting Visual Studio IDE. Microsoft whitepapers, forum posts, and online Visual Studio documentation. There are countless demonstration videos available, as well. If users are having issues, they can call Microsoft Support, but depending on the company's agreement with Microsoft, the number of included support calls will vary from organization to organization. I've found that Microsoft support calls can be hit or miss depending on who you get, but they can usually get you with the right support person for your issue.
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    In-Person Training
    Veracode
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    Microsoft
    IT is very complicated to understand all the functions that the environment has if you are not familiar with this type of development environments. It is important to select a good in-person training to achieve to understand all the possibilities and the capacity of the application. In this case, you will be able to develop a lot type of different applications.
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    Online Training
    Veracode
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    Microsoft
    If you are not accustomed to develop in this type of development environments it would be complicated to follow all the parts of the course because if the course does not include a great tour with all the concepts to develop you will not have the option to understand all the functions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Veracode
    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.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Veracode
    Veracode is slower with scan results however the flaws discovered and sites crawled are almost the same. Rapid7 InsightAppSec only does dynamic scans. Veracode did find more links on a site crawl. Rapid7 InsightAppSec has more out of the box reports than Veracode. Both integration to DevOps tools were striaghtforward.
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    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Veracode
    No idea
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    Microsoft
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    Scalability
    Veracode
    It meets our needs.
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    Microsoft
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    Return on Investment
    Veracode
    • Positive: Scanning all our applications on Veracode provides us an overview of our cyber security posture for the organization as a whole.
    • Positive: Performing the SAST, SCA and DAST scanning for all the applications at the early stages of the SDLC helps us identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities early, reducing the risk of data breaches and cyber-attacks.
    • Negative: Sometimes Veracode SAST scanner closed and reopens some findings, leading to reliability issues on the scanner itself.
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    Microsoft
    • Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
    • Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
    • When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
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