Veracode Reviews

We use the solution to scan for and identify vulnerabilities or security issues.

We use a SaaS deployment.

Before releases, we must ensure that all the security issues identified by Veracode are addressed. Occasionally, some false positives may be encountered, but these can be safely ignored. We are usually satisfied with the accuracy of the report as all the important security issues are identified and addressed allowing us to focus on our release sooner.

All the applications that are going to production in our large company are required to pass through Veracode, which provides us with a uniform standard that everyone must adhere to. This standard allows us to ensure the quality of our products before they go to market.

Veracode may not seem to immediately save our developers time, and it may even seem tedious at times. Ultimately, however, it can be extremely useful in identifying issues and vulnerabilities before they become larger problems, making it a valuable resource.

Veracode helped our security posture by checking security gaps in the production environment.

The most valuable feature is the static scan that checks for security issues. We use Veracode for this purpose; we also use the solution for our UI, but for the backend, we only use the static scan. I'm not sure what it is called, but it is one of two scans, the other one being dynamic. We only use the static scan to identify any security issues.

Veracode assists in the prevention of vulnerable code from reaching production by providing a comprehensive review of security risks and comprehensive reports with thorough descriptions of the vulnerabilities. This allows us to address any security gaps in the release. Based on the severity, we should determine the standards for release. We should not have any security issues with a severity of medium or higher before releasing.

Veracode provides us with ultimate visibility concerning security issues. Additionally, we use OWASP, which checks our dependencies to identify any potential weaknesses, but Veracode is the only tool we use to check our source code. With Veracode, we have the capability to recognize any security issues in our source code.

The false positives have room for improvement. Sometimes, we will get false positives, which we mark as mitigated. However, it can be annoying when they come up again in the next release. Every time a new person is doing the work, they may not be aware of the history of the issue. They must then check the false positive again and mark it as mitigated, and it may come up again in the future. False positives can be an irritating and time-consuming issue for developers to deal with. Investigating them can be a waste of time, as they have already been looked into. This can be frustrating for those involved. False positives waste our time and resources.

The zip file scanning has room for improvement. Sometimes when we upload the zip files for scanning, it can take a long time to get the report. This can take up to a day. Unfortunately, even after waiting a day, sometimes we find that nothing happened and we have to start the process over. This is both time-consuming and frustrating, as we feel the system has crashed.

The reports have room for improvement. I believe the reports are thorough but can become overwhelming with unnecessary information that may not be pertinent to the developer. I'd prefer to have customizable reports that allow us to select which elements we'd like to include.

I believe the usability of the UI needs to be improved. For example, when we navigate away from a page, it should remember our last location and take us back there instead of sending us to the homepage. Additionally, it should be easier to navigate between pages without having to refresh the page each time.

Veracode should provide potential customers with better training materials and resources to help them make a more informed decision before purchasing the product. This could include tutorials, demonstrations, more about how the product works, the user interface, the quality of Veracode's reports, and more. It is unclear if these resources are already available, but they should be made more visible if so.

I have been using the solution for over one year.

The report is usually ready without any problems, but occasionally there may be a crash or other issue occurring in the background that prevents it from being ready. This happens about 10% of the time. The solution is primarily stable.

I haven't experienced any scalability issues so far. This is likely because the job is always the same and the files we upload remain the same. We haven't had to change any parameters in the input, so scalability hasn't been a concern.

We used CodeSonar to analyze various aspects of our source code, and we already utilize OWASP to assess the security risks of our dependencies.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

One of the applications we supported through Veracode is designed for use by travelers of an airline. The application handles everything from searching for availability to obtaining tickets.

The solution does not require any maintenance. I am logging into my organization's portal, from which I have a direct link to access Veracode. I do not need to do anything else, such as create content or install anything.

We have found the static analysis to be useful in Veracode Static Analysis. However, we are in the process of testing.

Veracode Static Analysis could improve the terminology. For example, I do not know what the sandbox scan does. The terminology and the way they have used it are quite confusing. They should have a process of capturing problems that users are having on their end.

Veracode Static Analysis should adapt and detect the vulnerability which is coming from customers.

I have been using Veracode Static Analysis for one and a half years.

Veracode Static Analysis is a scalable solution.

We have approximately 10 people using this solution in my organization. However, we do not use it daily.

We previously used a free tool that is integrated into the Eclipse.

The initial setup of Veracode Static Analysis is in the middle range of difficulty. We had some minor issues but we had some guidance and support. It took us approximately one month to scan all of the microservices.

Our IT team did the implementation with support from the Veracode team. The Veracode team was very good.

The price of Veracode Static Analysis is on the higher side.

My advice to others would be to follow the instructions and they will not have any issues.

I rate Veracode Static Analysis a seven out of ten.

We use this solution because we have an important portfolio of applications, and before moving those applications to the production environment, we use the static features to scan the code: either for static analysis or for SCA (Software Composition Analysis) to find any vulnerability in our open source libraries.

When I started my job, this solution was already deployed, so I cannot compare it to how our company was prior to its deployment, but Veracode Static Analysis is a very good tool for static analysis and SCA. It not the only one in the market, but I would recommend it.

There are several features which I found most valuable in Veracode Static Analysis. First, it has a user-friendly interface, so it is easy to use.

I also found its reporting features interesting because they give you visibility on the vulnerabilities and the associated risks.

The feature of scanning open source dependencies for vulnerabilities is also very interesting. You have a dependency graph which shows you how your libraries are embedded within your code, so you can also see what kind of dependencies you have from one library to another. This means if you need to upgrade to a free vulnerability version, you can assess the impact on other libraries as well.

There is also a feature that enables you to build your own dashboard. For example, if you want to query the database that is supporting the platform, you can build your own dashboard with some indicators regarding the vulnerabilities, your portfolio, or you can look for a specific type of library or a specific type of risk, and that's interesting when you want to have visibility on your key item. I use this feature often.

This solution has a clear interface, but there are times when you go to the menu of a scan, you have to open another page for the project, or if you need to link, you also have to link your scan to a specific project. Some people find it difficult to understand those different screens and menus.

When you want to retrieve specific information about the projects that are linked to your scan, it's not easy. Those pages need to be redesigned.

I also don't understand Veracode workspaces. Other people also find that feature difficult to understand.

Those are the features that Veracode needs to redesign.

I've been using Veracode Static Analysis for more than one year.

This product is stable. We only encountered a bug which affected the results, but it was just once in a year, so this solution is stable.

I was not involved in any scalability issues or concerns with Veracode Static Analysis. The scalability requirements for this solution would be easily met because it's a SaaS application, so it's supposed to be very scalable for customer needs. I would not expect much trouble regarding its scalability.

Technical support for this solution is good. Whenever we face an issue, we schedule a consultation with them. We had the opportunity to have a slot four or five days after scheduling. Their SLA is good, but sometimes I would expect a more proactive support, or support with more availability. If we are facing an urgent issue, waiting four or five days is long. I would expect a more proactive support, but when we talk to them, in general, they provided the answers we expected.

I'm rating their support a seven out of ten.

Prior to Veracode Static Analysis, the company was using the Black Duck solution. The reason for switching could be to have a SaaS-based solution, though I am unsure if Black Duck was an on-premises or a SAAS-based solution.

Veracode has a good recommendation and good scoring, so it was the opportunity to move to a more powerful solution with DAST, SAS, and SCA capabilities.

Since this solution also has DAST capabilities, with the midterm or long-term projects, it was expected to unify all those capabilities within one platform. It's more of a strategic reason why the company switched to Veracode Static Analysis.

We evaluated AppScan from HCL.

Veracode Static Analysis isn't deployed on-premises. It's a SaaS offering.

We are using Veracode Static Analysis for static analysis and SCA, and there is also a need for the DAST module for dynamic scanning. We are considering running a POC for this solution, but I don't have any other updates for the time being. I know its DAST features would also be useful.

We are currently using HCL AppScan for SAST, and because we are not very satisfied with that product, we are considering using Veracode Static Analysis for DAST.

A lot of people are using Veracode Static Analysis in our company, approximately 300 or 400 people: development team leaders, developers, and people who are very tech-savvy and using all their time to develop applications and new programs.

I don't have pricing insight for this solution. I was not involved in the project before this was deployed. I just read in forums that the price for Veracode Static Analysis is high, but I cannot provide any specific insight.

What I can tell others who are looking into implementing Veracode Static Analysis is that it is a platform that provides good features. Its reporting capabilities are interesting, and overall the platform gives high quality results. You can manage your vulnerabilities and your risks quite easily, and define your own mitigation strategies within the platform.

I'm rating this solution a seven out of ten.

In my previous organization, we used to use Veracode throughout all verticals. It is a cloud-based platform, and you need to upload the code for static analysis. The code has to be uploaded as per the compilation guide provided by Veracode. So, for different languages, you have to combine the code as per the instructions in the guide.

We used to own and manage the platform. We also used to manage the users. If there was a particular project team that needed to use Veracode to do their code scan, they used to approach us. We used to create the user accounts for them so that user accounts were limited to just the code. We also used to guide and train them on how to upload the code on Veracode, how to combine the code, and how to initiate the scan. After the scan is completed, we used to tell them and guide them about how to treat the vulnerabilities in that code, how to fix and mitigate them, and what's the next process. Apart from that, we used to create a project team to build their CI/CD pipeline, where we used to create DevSecOps automation.

It is a cloud-based platform, so every organization or every security team in the organization is concerned about uploading their code because ultimately the code is intellectual property. The most useful thing about Veracode is that if you want to upload the code, they accept only byte code. They do not accept the plain source code as an input. The code is converted into binary code, and it is uploaded to Veracode. So, it is quite secure. It also has the automation feature where you can integrate security during the initial stages of your software development life cycle.

Veracode provides integration with multiple tools and platforms, such as Visual Studio, Java, and Eclipse. Developers can integrate with those tools by using Jenkins. The security consultation or the support that they provide is also really good.

Its user management is also good. You can restrict the users for a particular application so that only certain developers will be able to see the code that has been scanned. 

Their reporting model is really good. For each customer, they provide a program manager. Every quarter, they have their reviews about how much it has scanned. They also ensure that the tool has been used efficiently. 

There are few languages that take time for scanning. It covers the majority of languages from C to Scala, but it doesn't support certain languages and the newer versions of certain languages. For example, it doesn't support SAP and new JavaScript frameworks such as Node.js and React JS. They can include support for these. If you go to their website, you can see the list of languages that are currently supported.

The false-positive rates are also something they can work on.

I have been using Veracode for the last four years.

From my perspective, it is really good. It is one of the best SaaS solutions that I have come across. Veracode is also a leader in Gartner Quadrant.

It is pretty good in terms of scalability. There are many users of this solution. There are also many customers of Veracode. We had around 1,000 plus users.

The support that Veracode provides is really fabulous. They are very responsive. They provide you with a thorough analysis. If you have any questions or doubts, they help to clear them in a very simple manner.

I've used Checkmarx and HPE Fortify. Now, I am using Micro Focus. As compared to Veracode, Checkmarx takes input as plain text. It takes the code as it is and does not compile the code. This is the main difference between Checkmarx and Veracode. Checkmarx also has an on-prem solution, but Veracode does not have an on-prem solution. 

There is also a major difference in the cost and licensing model. Veracode's license model is quite complex. Comparatively, Checkmarx's license model is straightforward. You can upload any amount of code. For example, it could be 1 Gig or 2 Gig. They charge based on the number of applications, but Veracode's licensing model is pretty different. They charge based on the amount of code that has been analyzed.

It is pretty much straightforward. It is a cloud-based solution. So, creating a user in Veracode is pretty much easy. It involves just a few clicks. Uploading the code is also pretty much easy. It is user-friendly and developer-friendly.

When I used to maintain this for 1,000 developers, two or three people were enough to maintain it.

Veracode is costly. They have different license models for different customers. What we had was based on the amount of code that has been analyzed. The license that we had was capped to a certain amount, for example, 5 Gig. There would be an extra charge for anything above 5 Gig.

Veracode is well-suited for modern programming languages. Veracode is not for scanning large legacy applications with a huge codebase. It also doesn't support some unique languages such as SAP. This could be a challenge for certain people. 

More organizations are taking the left shift approach for application security and trying to integrate security early into their software development life cycle. Veracode is good for such automation.

I would rate Veracode Static Analysis a nine out of ten.

We introduced SCA scanning to satisfy customer-requested open-source library scans as part of a contractional agreement. This led to expanding SCA scanning across our other applications to compliment SAST/DAST application scanning.

We knew we had a technical debt from not updating open-source libraries for years, and were not aware of the vulnerabilities in these libraries at the time. SCA scanning is now a first-class scan component of our current practices and included in our external security audits going forward.

Veracode SCA enables awareness of open-source library vulnerabilities and versions to upgrade and eliminate these problems. It links to SWE flaws and provides guidance on remediation.

The nature of discovering a vulnerability included in many places of the application code base makes initial findings look overwhelming. However, we found more the 80% of the time, simply updating the build project configuration to include new versions, rebuild, and rescan, resolved the vulnerability finding.

The remaining ~20% of findings required refactoring for deprecated methods or a shift in usage model to update to a newer version.

Multiple "Policy" profiles can be created to apply differently to different classifications of applications that include grace periods per severity. I find this a great way to manage team expectations and regulatory compliance on a per-scan and time-period cycle, leading to self-service compliance remediation.

The dependency graph visualization provides the ability to see nested dependencies within libraries for pinpointing vulnerabilities.

The Vulnerable Methods feature helps with sorting through those vulnerabilities that matter to my application codebase.

Three areas that we continue to struggle with are

1. Identifying and flagging false positives that reappear in other locations, where a rule that can catch other occurrences such that we don't have to repeat the override each time would help in productivity, and 
2. Improving sorting through findings reports to filter by only what is critically relevant will help developers focus on issues,
3. Add enterprise aggregate reporting, showing teams grouped in business units with trends per team and at the group level that can be sent by email as a digest with drill-in back to the dashboard.

We have been using SCA for one and a half years and SAST/DAST for two and a half years.

Scanning is reasonably consistent and reliable. Occasionally, a scan will fail or get stuck with a defect in the scanner or some unsupported implementation requiring escalation to Veracode to fix or work-around. 

Platform scan performance has improved over the years. Refrain from putting too much in your application package for scanning such that you keep a reasonably short scan time.

Veracode needs a more standard microservice pricing strategy such that optimizing SaaS solutions into microservices from monolith applications is not penalized. 

Technical support was difficult at times due to off-shore support that seemed to be reading from a script and not really understanding our issue. The time delays in response with the off-shore team and language concerns made resolving issues painful at times.

As we grew, we were assigned a local Security Program Manager as a point person for all escalations and that made all the difference. Our escalations are now taken seriously, with a consultation of the issue and swift resolution if warranted.

We previously use WhiteSource open-source scanning and switched to Veracode for consolidation of scanning tools with one vendor dashboard.

The initial setup for manual scan uploads is straightforward. Pipeline uploads can take some effort to get to work right. Setting up policy rules and charts for results is reasonably easy.

We implemented it through an in-house team. This a Quality Engineering Shared Service team with a part-time custodian that performs other roles, as well. We found the need to have a designated custodian per application scrum team to assure scans capability, and the scan frequency for that team is maintained, escalating any issue to the shared service team and/or Veracode directly, and for shepherding vulnerabilities through the backlog routinely.

We feel that security scanning is a necessary cost of doing business, especially with FedRAMP and other prescriptive certifications. The effort we put into scanning keeps our applications healthier with higher quality confidence.

When our scan pipelines work as intended, there is little human capital cost. If there are problems with the scan pipelines and/or scan results then this can become time-consuming to address.

The Veracode price model is based on application profiles, which is how you package your components for scanning. Veracode recently included SCA pricing and support pricing as a factor of the SAST scan count cost. When using microservices, you may need to negotiate pricing based on actual application counts where microservices are usually a portion of an application.

Synopsis and Checkmarx were explored for SAST/DAST scanning in 2017, prior to the use of SCA.

Veracode has evolved to be a good partner, overall, in working through our learning needs and problem escalations. There are layers of training and consultation available, as well as recurring support engagements if the enterprise scanning needs warrant it.

We are using Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Static Application Security Testing (SAST), and Static Component Analysis (SCA). We use different types of scanning across numerous applications. We also use Greenlight IDE integration. We are scanning external web applications, internal web applications, and mobile applications with various types/combinations of scanning. We use this both to improve our application security as well as achieve compliance with various compliance bodies that require code scanning.

Veracode's cloud-based approach, coupled with the appliance that lets us use Veracode to scan internal-only web applications, has provided a seamless, always-up-to-date application security scanning solution.  

Our Veracode license includes a "people component" that allows developers to request an in-person session to be scheduled to review a defect. This has helped our application security personnel pool to free up time for other pursuits. I'm not sure if this is included in all licenses or is an add-on.

Being cloud-based is a huge plus. All of our scans are always using up-to-date scan signatures and rules, and there is nothing for us to maintain.  Veracode has been spot-on with notifying about planned downtimes for maintenance and upgrades.  In my years of using the product, unplanned downtimes have been minimal (in fact I can't remember one.)

The API integration that allows integration with other tools, such as defect trackers and automated build tools, is also a benefit. We also like the integrated, available "in-person" support sessions to review and ask questions on discovered defects.

We've had one occasion where a sub-product upgrade required action on our part faster than we initially understood it needed to happen.  This ended up being relatively minor.  

One feature I would like would be more selectivity in email alerts. While I like getting these, I would like to be able to be more granular in which ones I receive. 

Separately, I find the results console somewhat confusing.  When you are running multiple scan types for the same application, I've sometimes found it difficult to sort out where issues came from when I need that information.

We have been using Veracode for over four years.

Our solution is highly stable with minimal downtimes.  (In fact I don't recall the last time there was an unplanned Veracode cloud outage that impacted us.)  We previously had occasional issues with the scan appliance model, but the relatively recent switch to the ISM model has been much more stable.

Given that is is cloud based, coupled with their newer app-based internal scan model, we are pleased with the scalability and have not experienced any issues with scale.

As mentioned in prior comments, Veracode is simply put our best vendor in terms of relationship, value-add, and customer service/technical support. We get responsive answers from support, and their support resources clearly understand the product, and issues are resolved quickly.

Yes. We used a legacy, heavyweight dynamic scanning product. It would produce hundreds of pages of (mostly) false positives that were nearly impossible to digest and tune. We also didn't have a static scanning product. Moving to Veracode gave us much higher quality dynamic scanning with very few false positives (in part due to their model of human-assisted tuning, provided by them) and a robust static scanning solution.

The setup was easy and straight forward. We had some issues with API calls from our build automation tools, but this was related to networking issues in reaching the Veracode servers on the Internet, not the Veracode product itself.

We implemented with all in-house resources.

We achieve greatly improved security, earlier detection of security defects in the lifecycle, and as well as neatly meeting compliance requirements.

For the value we get out of it, coupled with the live defect review sessions, we find it an effective value for the money. We are a larger organization.

Checkmarx and SonarQube.

Of all the tools vendors I have relationships with, Veracode is simply our best vendor in terms of partnership, value add, and support responsiveness. 

The primary use case was scanning a single-digit number of applications. We scanned them about twice a year and that's about it. It was just to get the results. We used the results to gauge our security health.

The feature that was most valuable to us was the ability to point locally in a quorum.

The cost of the solution is a little bit expensive. Expensive in the sense that there was a hundred percent increase in cost from last year to this year, which is certainly not justified. 

The solution needs to be more flexible. It needs to work with clients more effectively. 

Right now, the licensing model is based on the number of applications as opposed to being flexible and based on the number of developers or based on some other parameters. This constrains our company in terms of defining what an application is and doing the scans. We have an application with multiple deposit rates, but Veracode has a hard time recognizing the different components sitting in different depositories as one application. 

The solution is pretty similar to others. There wasn't anything that was so startlingly different it would make us want to stay.

I had been using the solution for a while, but I am currently in the process of moving off of it.

The solution is stable. we've never had any issues surrounding its stability.

There's nothing to scale. Asking if the solution is scalable or not isn't applicable in this case. It's not an active load balancer. It's just a static scan. If it was dynamic, there may be a question around scalability, but it is not.

Technical support team is quite good. However, if we're talking in terms of how Veracode recognizes clients and deals with them, I'd rate them as bad.

We did not previously use a different solution. We've only used Veracode.

The initial setup has a moderate level of difficulty. It's neither simple or complex.

We handled the implementation ourselves.

The solution recently doubled in price over the past year, which is why I've decided to move away from it. The price jump doesn't make sense. It's not like there was a sudden influx in new features or advancements.

Without getting too specific, I'd say the average yearly cost is around $50,000. The costs include licensing and maintenance support.

I handle software composition analysis. Currently, I'm moving away from Veracode.

I don't know which version of the solution I am using currently. It's not quite the most up-to-date version.

If a company is looking for a long-term partner, and not just a transactional solution, I'd suggest a different company.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) is used to detect vulnerabilities in open source libraries, which are used by our customers for their own product. 

We are a consulting company who provides consulting services to clients. We don't buy the software for our own internal use. However, we advise customers about which solutions will fit their environment.

Most of our clients use SCA for cloud applications. 

For application security, the SCA product from Veracode is a good solution. It has a good balance. Altogether, the balance between the outcome of the tool, the speed of the tool, and its cost make it a good choice. 

One of the reasons why we recommend Veracode because it is very important in that SAST and SCA tools, independently from the vendor, should work seamlessly within the build pipeline. Veracode does a good job in this respect.

In this day and age, all software is developed using a large amount of open source libraries. It is kind of unavoidable. Any product application has a lot of embedded libraries. In our experience, many times customers don't realize that it is not just a code that can be vulnerable, but also an open source library that they may take for granted. In many ways, this has been a learning experience for the customers to understand that there are other components to open source libraries, and that SCA is an invaluable tool to address those issues.

SCA provides guidance for fixing vulnerabilities. It provides extensive guidance for both writing secure code and pointing to vulnerable open source libraries are being used.

From the time it takes for the solution to detect a vulnerability, both in the source code and the open source library, it is efficient. 

Within SCA, there is an extremely valuable feature called vulnerable methods. It is able to determine within a vulnerable library which methods are vulnerable. That is very valuable, because in the vast majority of cases where a library is vulnerable, none of the vulnerable methods are actually used by the code. So, if we want to prioritize the way open source libraries are updated when a library is found vulnerable, then we want to prioritize the libraries which have vulnerable methods used within the code. 

The Static Analysis Pipeline Scan is faster than the traditional scan that Veracode has. All Veracode products are fast. I have no complaints. On average, a piece of code for a customer takes 15 to 20 minutes to build versus the Static Analysis Pipeline Scan of Veracode that takes three or four minutes. So, that is 20 to 30 percent of the total time, which is fairly fast.

Most of our time is spent configuring the SAST and SCA tools. I would consider that one of the weak points of the product. Otherwise, once the product is set up on the computer, it is fairly fast.

Like many tools, Veracode has a good number of false positives. However, there are no tools at this point in the market that they can understand the scope of an application. For example, if I have an application with only internal APIs and no UI, Veracode can detect that. It might detect that the HTML bodies of the requests are not sanitized, so it would then be prone to cross-site injections and SQL injections. But, in reality, that is a false positive. It will be almost impossible for a tool to understand the scope unless we start using machine learning and AI. So, it's inevitable at this point that there are false positives. Obviously, that doesn't make the developers happy, but I don't think there is another way around this, but it is not just because of Veracode. It's just the nature of the problem, which cannot be solved with current technologies. 

Once we explain to the developers why there are false positives, they understand. In Veracode, embedded features (where there are false positives) can be flagged as such. So, next time that they run the same scan, the same "vulnerability" will be still flagged as a false positive. Therefore, it's not that bad from that point of view.

Veracode has a few shortcomings in terms of how they handle certain components of the UI. For example, in the case of the false positive, it would be highly desirable if the false positive don't show up again on the UI, instead still showing up for any subsequent scan as a false positive. There is a little bit of cluttering that could be avoided. However, that is not necessarily a shortcoming of the product. I think it's more of a shortcoming of the UI. It's just the way it's visualized. However, going forward, I personally don't want to see any more vulnerabilities that I already flagged as a false positive.

It does take some time to understand the way the product works and be able to configure it properly. Veracode is aware of that. Because the SCA tools are actually a company that they acquired, SourceClear, the SCA tool and SAST tool are not completely integrated at this point. You are still dealing with two separate products, which can cause some headaches. I did have a conversation with the Veracode development team not too long ago where I voiced my concerns. They acknowledged that they're working on this and are aware of it. Developers have limited amounts of time dedicated to learning how to use a tool. So, they need quite a bit of help, especially when we're talking about this type of integration between the SAST and SCA. I would really like to see better integration between the SAST and SCA.

I have been using it for almost a year.

It is stable. One of the selling points is that it is a cloud solution. The maintenance is more about integrating Veracode into the pipeline. There is a first-time effort, then you can pretty much reproduce the same pipeline code for all the development teams. At that point, once everything runs in the pipeline, I think the maintenance is minimal.

We have deployed the solution to FinTech or technology medium-sized companies with more than 100 employees.

Their technical support is less than stellar. They have essentially two tiers: the technical support and the consulting support. With the consulting support, you have the opportunity to talk to people who have intimate knowledge of the product, but this usually takes a bit of effort so customers still like to go through the initial technical support that is less than stellar. We rarely get an answer from the technical support. They seem a lot more like they are the first line of defense or help. But, in reality, they are not very helpful. Until we get to the second level, we can't accomplish anything. This is another complaint that I have brought up to Veracode.

One of the reasons why we decided on Veracode is because they have an integrated solution of SAST and SCA within the same platform. Instead of relying upon two different, separate products, the attraction of using a Veracode was that we could use one platform to cover SAST and SCA. 

The SAST tool is pretty straightforward; there is very little complexity. The pipeline works very well. The SCA tool is more complex to set up, and it doesn't integrate very well with the SAST tool. At the end of the day, you have essentially two separate products with two separate setups. Also, you have two different reports because the report integration is not quite there. However, I'm hopeful that they are going to fix that soon. They acquired SourceClear less than two years ago, so they are still going through growing pains of integrating these two products.

The setting up of the pipeline is fairly straightforward. It works a lot of the main languages, like Java, Python, etc. We have deployed it across several development teams. Once we create a pipeline and hand the code to the developers, they have been able to make a little adjustment here or there, then it worked.

For both SCA and SAST tools, including documentation, providing the code, writing the code for the pipeline, and giving some training to the developers, a deployment can take us close to two weeks. 

Deploying automated process tools, like Veracode, Qualys, and Checkmarx, does take more effort than uploading the code manually each time.

As long as developers use the tool and Veracode consistently, that can reduce the cost of penetration testing.

Checkmarx is a very good solution and probably a better solution than Veracode, but it costs four times as much as Veracode. You need an entire team to maintain Checkmarx. You also need on-premise servers. So, it is a solution more for an enterprise customer. If you have a small- to medium-sized company, Checkmarx is very hard to use, because it takes so many resources. From this point of view, I would certainly recommend for now, Veracode for small- to medium-sized businesses. 

Compared to other similar products, the licensing and pricing are definitely competitive. If you see Checkmarx as the market leader, then we are talking about Veracode being a fraction of the cost. You also have to consider your hidden costs: you need a team to maintain it, a server, and resources. From that point of view, Veracode is great because the cost is really a fraction of many competitors. 

Veracode provides a very good balance between a working solution and cost.

There are other products in the market. However, some of those products are extremely expensive or require a larger team to support them. Often, they have to be installed on-prem. Veracode is a bit more appealing for our organizations who don't have larger AppSec teams or where budget is a constraint. In this respect, SCA is a good solution.

We have been using Checkmarx for years, but mainly for their on-prem solution. They do have an offering in the cloud, but we haven't done any side-by-side tests in respect to speed. We did do a side-by-side comparison between Veracode and Checkmarx two or three years ago from a technical ability standpoint. At that time, Checkmarx came in a bit ahead of Veracode.

Checkmarx is more complex to set up because it is on-prem with multiple servers as well as there are a lot of things going up. If you have a larger budget and team, look into Checkmarx because it is a market leader. However, when it comes to a price, I would choose Veracode for a smaller company, not a large enterprise. 

Another consideration for Checkmarx, as an on-prem solution, is that you are pretty much ascertained that your code doesn't leave your company. With companies like Veracode, even if they are saying that you only upload the binary code, that's not quite true. The binary code can be reverse-engineered and the source code can be essentially reconstructed. For example, Veracode would not be suitable for a government agency or a government consultancy. 

For DAST, our customers like to use Qualys Web Application Scanning. There are very few players out there that can test APIs, but Qualys is one of them. 

Another promising solution that allows for testing APIs is Wallarm. We have done a couple of PoCs with them.

We tested Black Duck a few years ago, but they only had a SCA solution. They didn't have a SAST solution. I think they do now have a SAST solution because they acquired another company, Fujita.

I don't think that Veracode has helped developers with security training, but it helps developers have a reality check on the code that they write and their open source library. That is the best value that developers can get from the product. 

Veracode products can be run as part of the development pipeline. That is also valuable.

It integrates with tools like GitHub or Jenkins. At a high level, it does integrate with most of the pipeline of tools. It would be a showstopper if the incorporation of security was not in the developer workflows. We are past a time when developers or software engineers run a SCA or DAST scan on the code, then hand it off to the development team. What works instead is to inject a security tool in a development pipeline, which is why it is absolutely paramount and important that tools, like Veracode, be a part of the build pipeline.

We limited the user to SAST and SCA. We haven't used any of the penetration testing, especially for the DAST solution that they have. For that, they are behind the curve, meaning that there are other products in the market that are being established. In my opinion, they don't have a viable product for DAST, because I believe they are not even testing APIs. So, it's not mature enough. We also have never used their pen testing because that is one of the services that we provide.

At this point, Veracode is one of the best solutions available, though it's not perfect by any means, but you have to work with whatever you have.

I will give the solution a seven (out of 10). When they integrate the SCA and SAST portions more tightly together, I could probably bump it up to an eight. Also, if they make improvements to the UI and the support, they can get a better rating. However, at this point, I would still pick Veracode for a company who doesn't have a million dollar plus budget.