Veracode Reviews

We have three use cases. We have the dynamic scans that we use to scan the production, public-facing URLs. We also use the static scan where we work with the Dev team and scan the code base for the web application and the mobile application on both iOS and Android. Our third use case is manual penetration tests, which my team manages. We do annual manual penetration tests.

It's deployed to our platform infrastructure, which is in a public cloud.

We have some major clients using Veracode. It saves us time when it comes to doing annual pen tests. When we say we're using Veracode and they are also using Veracode, we don't have to run the test twice. They accept what we have because they know the framework is going to be the same.

A pen test can take a month; it really depends on the number of flaws that are found. So when we don't have to run a pen test twice it saves a lot of time. It not only saves time for my team, but for other teams as well, because when we run a third-party pen test for clients, I not only need to have my team coordinating it, but it requires documentation and it requires my technical support to be involved. So it saves a lot of time for a number of teams.

The report content is very good because the reports are structured in a way that they explain the scope of the scan and what the policy is. A report shows, right at the beginning, if we have passed the scan for the policy or not. That's very helpful when sharing that report externally. It's something that we didn't have before and having that now is extremely useful because it avoids a lot of back and forth with clients. If we share a report and there is no further explanation necessary on how the scan works and what we're doing to fix the flaws, it saves additional manual work that would otherwise be needed to update that information. With Veracode, we can do it automatically, just by pulling a report from the dashboard. In addition, whatever they have on the reports meets industry expectations.

Veracode provides visibility into application status across all testing types, including SAST, DAST, SCA, and manual penetration testing, in a centralized view. I manage the team, I'm not involved in the daily operations. But as a manager, it's extremely helpful, because I just log in to my Veracode instance and, on the homepage, it shows the status of all the scans. If I want more information about something, it's one click. From a managerial perspective, it's extremely helpful. The centralized view helps reduce risk exposure. If there is something wrong with a scan, if a scan doesn't run or a scan is not complete, I know about it from the main dashboard.

In addition, the solution integrates with developer tools. That creates more efficiency in the workflows because they don't need to duplicate work.

Overall, its ability to prevent vulnerable code from going into production is very good. We recently onboarded a new application into the static scan and we had almost 1,000 flaws in the first scan. We were able to mitigate all of them in less than three months. The result was amazing, enabling us to find everything that could potentially create a problem for us.

All of its features are valuable to us. We are ISO certified and we also do annual SOC 2 audits. We deal with personal, identifiable information and we host confidential information from our clients. Our use of Veracode is based on our clients' requirements and on ISO requirements. It is something that we have in place to comply with what is required. In that context, the manual penetration test is a requirement from all our clients and we do it once a year.

In terms of secure development, the SAST scan is very useful because we are able to identify security flaws in the code base itself, for the application. The dynamic scanning is mostly used to make sure that whatever is deployed to production is secure.

Veracode provides guidance for fixing vulnerabilities. This doesn't enable developers to write secure code from the start, but Veracode provides guidance through security consultants. We can book consultations in case developers cannot fix a specific flaw, and they guide us through the process based on the CWE.

The efficiency of the solution when it comes to creating secure software is good. For us, it works well. Their dashboard is really good, overall. In my opinion, it's one of the best in the market, and I say that because we have used other service providers.

Its policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations is very helpful. We can create our own policy, based on our internal risk management guidelines, and run the scans against our own customized policy. That way we can set expectations to fix flaws based on our internal timeline, and we can issue reports based on that. We usually share those reports with clients. That's very useful.

They are also always updating the types of threats and that's very useful.

In addition, they provide analytics on how we're doing in terms of fixing flaws and mitigating issues.

All of the services that Veracode provides are necessary for the type and the level of security and confidentiality that we need.

Whenever there is a mitigation that is submitted through the platform, I'm the one who approves it. The feature that allows me to read which mitigation answer was submitted, and to approve it, requires me to use do so in different screens. That makes it a little bit more complicated because I have to read and then I have to go back and make sure it falls under the same number ID number. That part is a little bit complicated from my perspective, because that's what I use the most.

I have been using Veracode for a year.

The stability is good. We have never had problems.

We will be using more of our products in Veracode starting in January. We added one more application into the dynamic scan and we added a couple more manual penetration tests to our projects. Once you understand how it works, it's very easy to deploy to different applications.

In terms of increasing our usage of the solution, we probably won't for the next couple of years, but we never know. It really depends on the requirements that we have from clients and the requirements of the standards and the regulations. Now, we are covering most of the applications and use cases that we need. We are doing 100 percent of the code base. We are doing dynamic scans on all the URLs in production, and the manual pen tasks are also covering all the applications.

We are doubling the ACV with Veracode for 2021, and that's a lot. After that, we're going to be good for the next couple of years, unless there is something new and the Dev team needs to use some other feature that I'm not aware of at this point.

For the dynamic scans I have a couple of people from the technical support team and one person from operations. For static scans, I have my entire iOS and Android team because, depending on the type of flaw, the ticket is given to different developers. I have about 20 to 25 Veracode users.

Their technical support is usually very quick. They usually get back to us in less than 24 hours. We had a problem recently and it was the first time that we had a problem with Veracode support. We didn't get an outcome for three weeks and it created a major problem, but they usually get back to us in 24 hours.

Their Knowledge Base, their help site, is very useful. Most of the time we can find the information that we are looking for there. Sometimes we consult with their support team, but we can usually find information in their help site.

We were using WhiteHat. We switched because the dashboard was very bad and there were no analytics. The UI was also very bad, so it was not easy to manage it. Also, most of our big clients were using Veracode and asking us to migrate to Veracode. It was a combination of things.

The setup was straightforward. It takes some time in the beginning to onboard, but our onboarding process was easy from the moment that we actually connected the Dev team with Veracode. It's normal to have a certain degree of difficulty in the beginning but we didn't have any major problems.

Our deployment took between a month and 45 days.

We migrated from another vendor, so we first picked the services that we needed and the type. We started with the same scans that we had with the other vendor, and then we divided the work between the different teams. We had to have the iOS team onboard and the Android team onboard. I presented the new tool to them and created the accounts and, after that, we had parallel projects to onboard the different scans. It was definitely easier because I had different teams taking care of each one of the scans, meaning I could do everything in parallel.

For the dynamic scans we had one person involved from the technical support team. It was super-straightforward and super-easy to do. It took us a couple of hours to do it. The static scan takes a little bit more time because you have to prepare the packages. But we already had the packages ready because we migrated from another vendor. It took us some time to adjust the scans, but the actual work of uploading the packages took less than a week.

There is no direct ROI. There is a cost of security, overall. It saves a lot of time and it allows us to have the certifications and comply with the clients' requirements, but it's very hard to have a direct ROI. It's a cost for compliance and security that is worth it.

Veracode is expensive. Some of its products are expensive. I don't think it's way more expensive than its competitors. The dynamic is definitely worth it, as I think it's cheaper than the competitors. The static scan is a little bit more expensive, around 20 percent more expensive. The manual pen test is more expensive, but it is an expensive service because it's a manual pen test and we also do retests. I don't think it is way more expensive than the competitors, but it's about 15 to 20 percent more expensive.

There is also a fee for the support package, which I think is extremely expensive. We used to have the premium support and we didn't use most of it, so we're downgrading to the basic support, and even the basic support is expensive.

We evaluated BitSight. The main advantage of Veracode was the UI, the dashboard. It's very easy to use and to manage.

I can give advice to other managers. If they are willing to properly manage, but they don't have the time or the bandwidth to actually operate, it's a very good tool. It's easy to get access to information and it's easy to understand what's going on with your application without much of a burden. You don't have to waste a lot of time trying to understand a complicated report. Everything is accessible. And the amount of information that Veracode gives based on the flaws is very straightforward and makes it easy for the Dev team to fix them.

I would rate it at eight out of 10. The tool itself is a very good tool. The way they work to update the flaws and the findings is very effective. But the support is a little bit expensive and it could be a little bit better. And there are few things that could be updated in the UI, but overall it's a very good tool.

Veracode is a cornerstone of our Development Security Operations Program, particularly scanning automation and remediation tracking.

We've been able to monitor the release cycle and verify our Security Standards are met by setting policy and ensuring scans are taking place. If a scan fails to meet our standard the build breaks and the flaws are remediated before releasing to Stage and ultimately Production -  where the potential impact is much more costly. 

We have discovered opportunities to make our code even better thanks to Veracode!

Veracode has improved our Application Security program by providing numerous integrations and tools to take our AppSec/DevSecOps to the next level. 

Integrations into our developer's IDE (Greenlight) and the DevOps Pipeline SAST / SourceClear Integrations has particularly increased our time to market and confidence.

In many ways, Veracode has increased productivity, helped build and improve security and development departmental relationships as well as enabling developers to consider and care about application security. 

Greenlight - Developers can test their code before they commit. They are able to privately scan their code and correct any mistakes before it is committed into the build and scanned with the other components.

SAST - During a build process, we have integrated the Veracode Static Scanning (SAST) component which provides an excellent first glance at the code moving through environments.

SCA /SourceClear - Veracode SCA / Source Clear has given us excellent visibility into potential vulnerabilities found in third-party components, packages, frameworks, and libraries.

Improve Mobile Application Dynamic Scanning DAST - .ipa and .apk. Right now I have to jailbreak an iPhone and Root an Android to intercept and fuzz requests with a Burp Suite Proxy.

That is a very time-consuming process and there are lots of dependencies. It would be very helpful if we can upload and .ipa or .apk into a Veracode simulator, provide credentials and run a Dynamic scan accordingly. Fuzzing functionality on API resources, HTTP Methods, and Parameters would also be very useful in testing our Web and API Application Firewalls, response pages, and other WAAF actions.

I have been using Veracode for about two years now.

It seems to be very stable, no problems thus far.

It has lots of growth potential, lots of room for improvement.

Exceptional!

Previously used Burp Suite, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy, Python scripts / Powershell and Batch, Retire.JS, Vulners, and Wappalyzer browser plugins.

The initial setup very straightforward and integrations were up and running in a matter of days after purchase.

Implementation was in-house (Deployment, Automation Engineers, Myself)

Unknown - productivity and time are measurable, possibly as much as 20%. Improvement in cross departmental relations is priceless!

We also evaluated WhiteHat Security.

I have used this solution in multiple projects for vulnerability testing and finding security leaks within the code.

We were embracing Veracode as a process in our DevSecOps, although I have not personally used this solution for the past eight months.

This is not a very elaborate application. I think that the suggestions are between thirty-five and eighty percent accurate, with most cases being about seventy-five percent. Some of them are references where you have to go and determine whether they are direct threats, or not.

At the point in time when we were using this solution, we had older coders and the way Veracode tests for vulnerabilities may have been affected by the code style. I found that there were far too many warnings and some false positives. Of course, this comes with every product, and there are multiple tools that are used.

Ideally, I would like better reporting that gives me a more concise and accurate description of what my pain points are, and how to get to them.

In the context of a dev or UIT environment, I'll say that it is fairly stable. However, I would not be able to give ratings for stability in a production environment because I have no experience with it.

Technical support was good and I was very happy with them.

We did not have that many issues to start with. They conducted training, and there was an architect that was working directly with me to answer everything. He was fairly knowledgeable. In the beginning, when we wanted to understand the product, he gave us great pointers. He provided very nice documentation that we followed and we were able to establish with the infrastructure team.

I have used multiple tools similar to Veracode that integrate with the IDE.

The initial setup was straightforward. What I recall is that it was not really difficult and we had optimal support. They also provided us with documentation to help set up integration with tools such as Jenkins.

When it comes to DevSecOps, in the industry it is still under adoption. With the advent of the cloud and code being there, or on other public platforms, many people have embraced it or are in the process doing so. 

My advice for anybody interested in implementing this solution is to be really careful when choosing your tools. Be very proactive and up-front on the requirements of your systems, because no tool is perfect. You need to find the best fit for each particular use case. I would do a thorough analysis.

As a solution architect, I do small POCs and run initiatives on products to find out various aspects. For example, the technical feasibility of the product is an important aspect. Other important ones are usability, testing, and implementation. Normally, I select at least three products and do a comparative analysis based on the POC. After this, I recommend a particular solution.

I would recommend Veracode. There are plusses and minuses to this solution, but given the chance to use it again I would definitely do so. Every product has its own flaws, but for my use case, it did fit very well.

I would rate this solution an eight and a half out of ten.

We use Veracode to find any vulnerabilities and for risk management.

There are multiple ways to use Veracode. We can use Veracode directly in our ID environment, and we can use it in the UI environment in our platform. We can integrate it with GitHub or GitLab. We can also install SourceClear as an agent.

It helps to reduce the application risk rate. It checks for any vulnerabilities or CVE IDs against its database. If any vulnerabilities are present, it gives suggestions, remediations, and fixes. They have recently started with Veracode Fix, so the auto-fix capability is there for your code.

Previously, it was very difficult to find vulnerabilities and scan threats. It is a primary need to maintain the security of our code. Veracode is a good option. It provides all kinds of features for developers.

Veracode checks for vulnerabilities in the static code, third-party libraries, and infrastructure. If there are any vulnerabilities in your static code, it will provide them. It can also auto-fix them with Veracode Fix. For Web APIs, there is a solution called DAST Essentials. It came out recently, but it is a very good solution.

It has been a year since I have been using Veracode, and it has been very helpful. It gave me the vulnerabilities present in my code, such as SQL injection, and the fixes for them. It gives good suggestions to improve the score of our code base. It gives a lot of things.

I started using Veracode Fix about one month back. It can automatically fix whatever vulnerabilities are present in the code. In GitHub, it shows the line numbers that it has fixed. It also provides a reason to fix them. It also gives a report based on your policies. If any high-severity vulnerability was there, it tells you how it was fixed. Everything is given in detail in the reports. It is very good.

Veracode's policy reporting is good for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. I would rate it an eight out of ten for that.

Veracode provides visibility into application status at every phase of development, but the option of infrastructure and deployment security is not there in Veracode. They have probably started working on that.

We use third-party libraries, and it suggests using only the safest versions. It gives suggestions on vulnerabilities that are present and how to fix them. It is very good. It makes our code secure.

Veracode saves 10% to 20% time of developers. 

I like its integration with GitHub. I like using it from GitHub. I can use the GitHub URL and find out the vulnerabilities. It maps everything for you. It gives suggestions and remediations.

They should provide infrastructure management. They have not included any infrastructure security. Kubernetes images are also not there.

Their scanning engine is sometimes a little bit slow. They can improve the scan time.

I have been using Veracode for more than one year.

It is stable. I would rate it an 8 out of 10 for stability.

It is scalable. We have 5 projects. In every team, 2-3 people are using Veracode. We have a dashboard, and through that dashboard, we log in to our account. We are also using a GitHub wrapper.

We have a sprint of 2 weeks, so every 2 weeks, we deploy code. We have a team of 10 people, and at a time, at least 5 people are involved in the deployment.

They have an Application Security Consultation team. Veracode support is also there. We can email them for any issues, and we can also connect with the ACS team through a Zoom meeting.

Their documentation is also very good. In the case of any issues, we follow the documentation.

Neutral

I have previously worked with SonarQube. The decision to switch to Veracode was taken by our management.

Veracode is better than SonarQube. In SonarQube, you need to give individual code, and then it fetches the details. With Veracode, you can get details about your entire application. Veracode Fix is also there to auto-fix the code. For web applications also, so many things are there with Veracode.

It is a very good product. Veracode Fix is also there. It gives very good solutions about the code and its reusability and fixes. It has been there for the last 17 years. Without such a solution, it is very difficult to find vulnerabilities and manage fixes. 

I would recommend using Veracode. It has good features. It scans your source code and your third-party libraries. There are a lot of new products in the market, but Veracode is good.

Overall, I would rate Veracode an 8 out of 10.

We use Veracode to identify vulnerabilities in code to ensure the security and integration of the apps.

Veracode effectively identifies vulnerabilities within the code. My role is to analyze these vulnerabilities and assign a severity level before forwarding them to the development team. This allows them to address the issues before deployment to production.

Whenever Veracode releases a new feature, we seek the expertise of Veracode's application security consulting team to understand its functionality and how it contributes to code security. The team demonstrates exceptional responsiveness and promptly addresses our questions, eliminating the need for unnecessary back-and-forth communication.

In today's digital world, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Veracode offers a comprehensive suite of features that help developers secure their code through automated scanning. This scanning identifies vulnerabilities and detects malicious code, preventing it from entering production.

Veracode has helped reduce our time to remediate security flaws.

The policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations has been positive for our organization.

Veracode provides visibility into application status at every phase of development.

It has been instrumental in enhancing our organization's ability to fix flaws while simultaneously reducing our manpower requirements allowing us to focus on other issues.

Veracode has helped our developers save 20 percent of their time.

Implementing Veracode has significantly bolstered our security posture. We can uncover more vulnerabilities and streamline our detection process. We've become more proactive in identifying and addressing security threats. This allows us to focus on building secure applications with confidence.

Veracode has proven to be a solid choice for our organization's shift-left security strategy, compared to other solutions like Darktrace.

To ensure secure software from development to deployment, we leverage Veracode throughout our CI/CD pipeline, enhancing our app security at every stage.

Veracode helps us prevent vulnerable code from entering production, strengthening our third-party application security.

Among Veracode's features, vulnerability scanning stands out for its effectiveness in identifying and remediating security weaknesses, ultimately mitigating threats to our applications. 

The integration capabilities have positively affected our existing development tools when integrating with other cloud solutions. It is easy to integrate and the support team is helpful during the integration process.

Veracode helped improve our compliance posture with our existing solutions.     

The automation of Veracode is great because we no longer have to run manual testing. 

The weekly report logs are great because we can address any vulnerability issues that are detected quickly.

Veracode runs comprehensive scans and links the vulnerable code to the weekly reports identifying what services are affected and forecasting the next steps.

The GUI requires significant simplification, as its current complexity creates a steep learning curve for new users.

I would like Veracode to introduce more sophisticated AI features.  

I have been using Veracode for one year.

I would rate the stability of Veracode nine out of ten.

Veracode supports scaling up whenever we want to keep up with our growing app portfolio.

I would rate the scalability of Veracode eight out of ten.

The experience I had with their technical support has been great.

Positive

I recently changed companies, and my current employer does not use Veracode. However, I have discussed implementing it with them because it offers more mature features compared to other solutions.

The initial deployment took around four months and required five people.

Veracode is affordable for large organizations, but its pricing may be out of reach for small and medium companies.

I would rate Veracode an eight out of ten. Veracode's pricing hinders my overall rating of the solution. 

Veracode was deployed in two regions with 25-plus users.

Veracode requires some maintenance to keep the scanning accurate.

While I highly recommend Veracode, affordability for smaller organizations may be a significant hurdle due to its pricing structure. It's crucial to carefully evaluate their budget constraints and explore alternative solutions if necessary.

Manual Penetration Testing is a security tool for static code scanning. It's still in testing, so the client has it in their commercial cloud. As soon as it's federally approved, they'll move it to the government cloud. That's supposed to happen any day now. I think their government cloud is AWS. I believe they're looking at the dynamic piece as well.

I don't have much experience with the solution yet. We're looking at integrating Manual Penetration Testing with JIRA and Bamboo and then building that into a CICD model, so the integration is the most valuable feature so far.

We're still trying to get things operationalized, piloted, and tested. I haven't heard about any problems so far. However, it would be great if Veracode automatically packaged stuff up for you. 

For example, it would be nice if the solution used AI or machine learning to detect what your code was by doing. It could perform the review and decide how to package up the software. You could run it and wouldn't need as much developer involvement.

We've had Veracode in place for about three or four months now.

I haven't heard anything negative about Veracode's performance, and we've had a hundred people test it at one time. We may get to a point where see some degradation, but we haven't yet. 

Manual Penetration Testing looks relatively scalable. We won't know those things until we get a critical mass of people testing all at the same time. We have around four teams that are scanning continuously, or on a fairly regular basis at this point. So.

I'm happy with Veracode's support. We're getting the help we need. I meet with them weekly, and they answer our questions.

We haven't worked with something like this before. This is the first time the organization has picked up this type of scanning solution.

Setting up Manual Penetration Testing wasn't complex. None of these solutions are complicated. You get it, set it up, and run it. It has been deployed. They're already scanning, and more developers are being onboarded. 

We followed the implementation strategy provided by Veracode. One person is probably enough to onboard people and set them up. We need one person to concentrate on the strategy and ensure the systems are set up correctly.

We deployed Manual Penetration Testing ourselves, but we have an arrangement with Veracode to provide the necessary professional services to support us. Consulting is part of the package they provide.

We used it to scan and detected a vulnerability, and they're trying to use it to identify how to fix the problem. That's the only example of an ROI we've got so far. 

I'm not familiar with the costs, but I believe it's around half a million. I'm not sure how it compares to the other solutions, but I assume they're all in the same ballpark. HCL might have been a little less expensive.

I think someone at my company was looking at SonarQube, but whoever did that didn't go forward with a commercial version. I don't know how it would've worked out, and I didn't look at it. There was a community version someone had for years, but it never got the traction. 

Then I looked at HCL, Synopsis, and Cast. Cast is deep but highly expensive. Those were the Cadillac solutions. We went with the SaaS because they did not have anything that was on-premThey wanted something that would be in the gov cloud that we fed ramped and low maintenance on our side. 

I rate Veracode Manual Penetration Testing nine out of 10 for support and ease of setup. If you're considering this solution, I suggest trying it out and taking the opportunity to learn and teach yourself. Take some classes or online training. I found the solution pretty straightforward, and I'm not terribly technical. 

In India, we have a digital development center. I'm from the security team. There are teams who develop all the applications for security features and coding security analysis. We use the Veracode Static Analysis for all projects and applications within our organization.

All the top vulnerabilities are detected. This makes sure all our applications are up-to-date on market threats, which are occurring. It gives a good workaround process for the developers to secure their code and ensure all our applications are secure. Up-to-date vulnerabilities are detected. It detects the vulnerabilities in the market on time. We keep running the scan over regular intervals, which ensures that we are secure.

Veracode has helped with developer security training and building developer security skills. I had never used Veracode previously. The training portals really helped teach me how to run the scan, know the Veracode processes, what processes should be followed, and what Veracode is all about. The training has really helped everyone.

Veracode covers most policy scans of most of the top vulnerabilities, like mobile. It pretty much covers all the policies per our compliance guidelines.

We give the developer a specific SLA period to fix each severity part of the vulnerabilities. So, they have a certain time limit to fix it. They are very comfortable in receiving these threats and working on fixing them. 

We are very much confident in the SCA scanning mechanism. If things are going fine, we can push it into production. On scale from one to five, I can give it a four and a half.

There have been a lot of benefits gained from Veracode. Compared to other tools, Veracode has good flexibility with an easy way to run a scan. We get in-depth details on how to fix things and go through the process. They provide good process documents, community, and consultation for any issues that occur during the use of Veracode.

SCA enables developers to write secure code from the start. During the development process, we run the scan. If any threats or vulnerabilities occur, we make sure to fix them, then rerun the scan. Then, we move to production. We have all the applications of our organization on Veracode using CI for our pipeline.

We use the Static Analysis Pipeline Scan, and it provides a good benefit for our developers. Previously, we didn't have any of these kinds of tools within the organization. We were using a code quality tool, but Veracode also gives us code quality. It also detects the vulnerabilities within the application, which makes sure the quality of the application is treated well. Therefore, I can give it a rating of four and a half out of five.

The scanning could be improved, because some scans take a bit of time. 

Many developers have commented on the packaging. It is quite different compared to other tools, so the packaging of codes could be changed. They should make it more uniform.

On the reporting, there should be an option like sending reports to groups or task ID.

We have been using Veracode for one year within our organization.

The stability is good; there is nothing unstable about it.

SCA scales well. 

Most of the users are developers, about 90 percent. 100 to 150 employees are using Veracode as of now.

We have more than 30 applications. Some use it on a daily basis, then others use it on a biweekly or monthly basis.

We do have plans to increase usage. All our developers across our organization, across the globe, will start implementing Veracode within all their platforms or applications that they are developing very soon.

We receive guidance for fixing vulnerabilities in case something is new to us, or we are stuck from there. We can very easily get consultation through calls and emails, which gets things easily clarified. That means we get things done quickly.

We were using SonarQube previously, but just as a code quality tool.

The initial setup was somewhere between straightforward and complex. I am not a developer, so I would not know how to package these codes and send them in for a scan. What I prefer is if there could be some mechanism where if I am a layman, then I just need to run a scan of the application. After that, there should be some option where I can get the project details. Instead of doing the packaging or some changes in the uploading part, this change would really help anybody who had to run the scan.

We have multiple applications developed at our organization, but it didn't take much time to deploy the solution to each. If a new application comes into picture in our organization, we provide access, so they can start running the scan in one or two days.

SCA reduced the cost of AppSec for our organization, because of things like stability.

It scans quickly versus other tools, like Qualys, Burp Suite, SonarQube, and Nexus. 

I can be confident about more of our applications in production. We can be more confident against many kinds of external threats. The lesson learnt is about being proactive, which is a good thing in security.

Veracode integrates with our developer tool 95 percent of the time. It is supported very well because developers get to know why the security features are really important in any organization or application along with what they develop. They get to know the market standards of what the security threats are and how to fix them, making sure the coding or the applications are secure enough to move to production. However, with MuleSoft, it does not support most of the API parts.

We use cloud-based applications and take support from the community.

At the moment, we are only using SCA and Static Analysis, which we have been very satisfied with. However, we are not using their DAST or pen testing. 

In our organization, we concentrate on high-end and medium alerts, but we really don't bother much with false positives.

I would rate this solution as a nine (out of 10).

We use it to scan our biggest applications, our bread and butter. We've got a lot of developers using it in our organization, and we've got quite a few applications using it as well.

The solution has helped with developer security training and has helped build developer security skills. It has definitely opened their eyes and made them more aware of things they should look for. I try to get my developers to go to the Veracode seminars if there are new things to learn or if Veracode has made an improvement or they're going to announce something new. They have participated in those quite often, a few every month.

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.

We like their Dynamic Analysis as well. They changed the engine of the Dynamic Analysis and it does a better job. It scans better.

We use the solution’s Static Analysis Pipeline Scan. It's really good for assessing security flaws in the pipeline. Sometimes my developers have a hard time understanding the results, but those are only certain, known developers in my organization. I typically direct them to support, especially if I cannot answer the question, because I have full confidence in that process. 

The speed of the static scan is good. Our bread and butter application, which is our largest application, is bulky, and it's taking four hours. That's our baseline to compare the Static Analysis Pipeline and its efficiency. If that's only taking four hours, I have no doubt about our other applications and the solution's static analysis efficiency.

The solution’s policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations is really good as well. We're a state agency and we always look to be NIST compliant. We're always looking at the OWASP and CWE-IDs, and Veracode does a really good job there. I've used it often in trying to get my point across to the developers, telling them how bad a vulnerability might be or how vulnerable the application is, based on a vulnerability we may be finding. 

If Veracode was more diversified, as far as the number of platforms and the number of applications it could do in our favor, we would be using it even more. But there are a number of platforms it doesn't support. For example, I know they support C+, .NET, and Java, but there are certain platforms they don't support and that was disappointing.

They have a pretty unique process to get guidance. It's not like you send them an email. You could do that, but if you want to set up a consultation call, you have to go to the website and give them a certain amount of detail so that they can study the problem and the detail and be ready to meet with you. It's not as simple as doing an email. You have to go to their website and you have to click on the "consultation" button and pick a time to talk with an engineer. Sometimes an engineer is not available for quite a while. You have to wait at least a couple of days before you can meet. Having to wait for two days is not that efficient. You should be able to set it up within 24 hours.

And regarding announcements from Veracode, I've tried to get them to let my developers know directly, and I'm not sure if that's happening. I want to tell Veracode to make sure that happens. I don't want them to send an announcement to me and then I have to disseminate that information to my developers. I want it to go directly to them. They've got the developers' names and emails in their database so those announcements should go directly to them.

I believe the company got Veracode at the end of 2012. However, my association with Veracode has only been since about the end of 2014. So we had it for a couple of years before I got my hands on it and then I gradually started to use it and implement it to the point where it's at right now. Early 2016 is when I began administering it. I do other tasks, so it's not my full-time job. Veracode is just one of many hats that I wear. Nobody else administers it with me in our company.

Veracode support is really good. I get a lot of help from them. I've been on a few calls with my developers and they're very competent engineers. If they don't have the answers, they'll get back to you.

I feel that management would not approve it if we were not getting our money's worth out of it. We have definitely seen ROI from Veracode.

Going forward, though, what may bring that into question is our transition to the cloud. We're not getting any benefit from those applications in the cloud. I think that should be addressed sooner rather than later.  We're moving to the cloud more, and for our applications in the cloud we usually only go with FedRAMP-certified cloud vendors. So we're not actually even scanning those applications in the cloud with Veracode. Not all our applications are there, but close to 30 percent of them are there now.

And they have to address not being compatible with certain platforms that we use. That has to be addressed because the ROI question may be coming up sooner rather than later.

The solution is very pricey.

The product is very good, very reliable, and they've made a lot of improvements to the dashboards and the reports. They've made the product easy to use. There used to be a lot of things that you had to search for and maneuver to dig deep down for them, but you don't have to do that anymore. Many of the things are now at your fingertips, including performance reports. Those things are easy to get to.