We performed a comparison between GitHub and Veracode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Our code is secure."
"The initial setup was easy."
"GitHub's source code management is top-notch. It's easy to inspect changes and visualize code and differences. Their action system is comprehensive in terms of making changes and automation."
"We can make a private repository."
"The ease of use is valuable."
"The product helps our team collaborate across different locations."
"The best feature is the ability to track the history of all code changes, and it's easy to use. Additionally, as it's open source, anyone can use that feature resulting in distributed development. This opens the door to collaboration with different code and developer, feature, and master branches of development."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"One of the features they have is Software Composition Analysis. When organizations use third-party, open source libraries with their application development, because they're open source they quite often have a lot of bugs. There are always patches coming out for those open source applications. You really have to stay on your toes and keep up with any third-party libraries that might be integrated into your application. Veracode's Software Composition Analysis scans those libraries and we find that very valuable."
"I contacted the solution's technical support during the automation part, and it went well, after which I never faced any issues."
"The coding standards in our development group have improved. From scanning our code we've learned the patterns and techniques to make our code more secure. An example would be SQL injection. We have mitigated all the SQL injection in our applications."
"The CI/CD integration is the most valuable feature of Veracode."
"The user interface is excellent, the code review process is quick and provides great analytics to understand our code better, and the SAST scan is high-speed."
"It has given our management a view into issues with all of our product lines. We have three products and all of them were scanned. As a result, the project lead for each product has taken measures to improve things."
"Provides the ability to understand the black zones in our system."
"The Veracode technical support is very good. They are responsive and very knowledgeable."
"This solution could be improved by offering crowd sourced support where we could ask questions to other users."
"It would be beneficial if GitHub provided some security scanning for new libraries to ensure that there are no viruses in it."
"The solution can improve by adding video guides, official guides, or short courses that cater to beginners who are new to the system. These resources could offer step-by-step guidance on how to use GitHub, including common procedures such as pulling and committing. Currently, many of us have to resort to searching for information on how to do these tasks via Google. An official guide provided by GitHub itself would be a valuable asset to newcomers and would save them time and effort."
"It would be good if there were training materials for junior developers."
"The development team pushes the code into a repository, and the CI/CD pipeline will perform the build. We need open-source libraries to perform the builds. It would be helpful to have the ability to link to open-source libraries like npm libraries. I don't know if GitHub Actions provides this. I would like to see that in GitHub Actions if they don't."
"The storage for this solution could be improved."
"We want to incorporate management comments within GitHub, making it more like a product management tool. We haven't done that yet. Another change we're considering is migrating from GitHub to Azure DevOps, especially now that Microsoft has introduced it."
"GitHub could add some more security features."
"The Greenlight product that integrates into the IDE is not available for PHP, which is our primary language."
"Veracode's container scanning could be improved. We containerize all the platforms we use inside a Docker image. For example, we create a Microsoft Docker image that we build our application on top of. I would like Veracode to implement IT scans before we commit the code."
"On-premise implementation is not available."
"There needs to be better API integration to the development team's pipeline, which is something that is missing and needs to be improved."
"It can take time to find options if you don’t use the interface a lot. At some point, a bit of interface restyling may help."
"Sometimes, the scans halt or drop for some reason, and we need to get help from Veracode to fix it."
"The Web portal, at times, is not necessarily intuitive. I can get around when I want to but there are times when I have to email my account manager on: "Hey, where do I find this report?" Or "How do I do this?" They always respond with, "Here's how you do it." But that points to a somewhat non-intuitive portal."
"Sometimes, I get feedback from a developer saying, "They are scanning a Python code, but getting feedback around Java code." While the remediation and guidelines are there, improvement is still required, e.g., you won't get the exact guidelines, but you can get some sort of a high-level insights."
GitHub is ranked 12th in Application Security Tools with 74 reviews while Veracode is ranked 2nd in Application Security Tools with 194 reviews. GitHub is rated 8.6, while Veracode is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GitHub writes "Beneficial version control and continuous integration, but guides would be helpful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veracode writes "Helps to reduce false positives and prevent vulnerable code from entering production, but does not support incremental scanning ". GitHub is most compared with Snyk, AWS CodeCommit, Fortify on Demand, Bitbucket and Atlassian SourceTree, whereas Veracode is most compared with SonarQube, Checkmarx One, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Fortify Static Code Analyzer. See our GitHub vs. Veracode report.
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