Veracode Reviews

It has given us visibility into the applications we have that are participating in the application security program.

For me, at the program manager level, I'm not a developer. What I do is run applications through a security program. What's important for me, from Veracode, is the all-in-one metrics location. I can see where everything is across the entire portfolio of applications I have in this program, and I can report out on it. That is one of the more important pieces for me, at the compliance level.

Speed. When we scan binary, when we perform binary analysis, it could go faster. That has a lot to do with the essence of scanning binary code, it takes a little bit longer. Certain aspects, depending on what type of code it is, take a little long, especially legacy code. In our case, we have quite a bit of older code. It takes some time to get through.

As a SaaS product, you have certain expectations for it to be stable. It is a very mature platform so we haven't had any issues with its performance.

It absolutely scales out. Our program is pretty small, but the eventual goal is complete application portfolio coverage. I have no expectation that we are going to have any issues with scaling.

Technical support is great. The folks that I have interacted with, from services all the way through to the pen-testers have been great. They are on par with anybody else out there. In some cases, specifically for applications, they are probably a lot better than most.

I have done a lot of product comparisons in my time, in information security. A lot of them are modules of a product, there is no single pane of glass. When I talk about metrics, I want to see everything in a single pane of glass, I want to see all of my results in one location. A lot of the other application security products out there can't do that yet. They are getting there but Veracode has already been able to do that for years. Veracode can run multiple types of tests and you can see all the results in one area.

When selecting a vendor the most important criteria are 

• scalability
• reliability of results - we want to see results-oriented success.

Setup is very straightforward. Since everything is SaaS, everything is uploaded to the cloud. It's very simple to do. There is no setup on the back-end, initially. Once we start getting a little more sophisticated with integrations we are going to be just fine. Currently, we are early in the program so everything is done manually. So there is no setup. Everything is just done in the cloud.

I give Veracode a solid nine out of 10 because it is a full-featured product. It is not just something that they are selling to you and then leaving you to figure out how to use it. They actually help you every single step of the way and they want to show you how to do it. 

Their testers, their application security consultants, really help you and help educate the developers. They walk you through every step of the way.

I'm working on security reviews for our in-house products. We are trying to solve problems. The use case for Veracode is to discover flaws in design before our application reaches end customers. We are using Veracode as one of the tools to ensure that our products are following secure design guidelines.

We have some applications where Veracode found a potential XSS due improper input controls. Based on Veracode recommendations, I work with dev team and remediate the flaw. That's something that I would probably missed if I did only the manual code review.

We recently started working with pipeline scanner, which is quite useful. In Veracode, you need to import zip files for the source code. With the pipeline scanner, it's easier for developers to scan their products, as they can do everything via command line. When a scanner detects a flaw, it also generates a good explanation about that flaw and good references for mitigation. That's also very useful for us.

In terms of improvement, I don't have any valuable input. The application works fine and I don't have any negative feedback. Maybe pipeline scanner can be improved to support some additional language packages.

I've used the solution for two years now. It hasn't been that long. 

The solution is stable. I haven't experienced any hiccups in my work in any way. 

I haven't worked with Vercode's support and therefore cannot comment on how helpful or responsive they are. 

I don't have experience with other SAST products.

This solution was already deployed when I was hired. I can't speak to what the deployment process was like. 

The maintenance is minimal. I just need to create accounts for people who want to scan by themselves and that's it. It's easily maintainable.

I don't have any insights on pricing. I don't handle any aspects of the licensing process so I can't speak to the overall costs or terms.

We are accessing via a web browser to Veracode. I'm guessing it's some type of cloud deployment, hosted by Veracode.

We have a lot of applications that are scanned with Veracode. We did scans for some of our core products, as well as on-demand products, and web applications. I'm mostly working with web applications for now. 

Based on my experience, new users should check as many features as they can, and also read the reports carefully. That way, they can get a full picture of how this product works.

I'd rate the solution a nine out of ten.

It has helped us be more secure, and it has helped us put a package together for our customers that will take into consideration training, all the way down to the coding level.

For us, it's the partnership. We have always been very strong partners with Veracode. They provide excellent training to our sales team, so we are able to work with our customers to show them the value of secure code training.

More integration into the specific application; an open API would be good. Aside from that, I think they do a really good job in terms of the features they have. 

Veracode has always been a very stable product for us, a very stable product for our customers, and it has been a very stable relationship as well.

We have customers of every size from several hundred to several hundred thousand. The product works well, regardless of the size of the company we are working with.

We have had customers - and it has been our own experience as well - tell us that the support is second to none. They are very quick to respond, very quick to answer questions in a really knowledgeable way.

We've had no comments from our customers other than that it is an easy setup.

When it comes to secure coding, Veracode is the only one we really considered.

For us, whenever we are selecting a partner, vendors to work with who are going to be working with our customers, we have to make sure that they align regarding customer support philosophy, and that is the reason we selected to work with Veracode.

I would definitely rate Veracode a 10 out of 10, based on our customer feedback. Whenever we know the relationship is going well between Veracode and our customers, it reflects very well on us.

Provides static code analysis of the customers' applications from all industries. It includes any type of code and scripts, but mostly Java, .Net, C++, and C# environments.

The solution is a specialist in SAST that you can rely on. Code scanning is fast with current, updated algorithms.

Provides consistent evaluation and results without huge fluctuations in false positives or negatives. 

It should include more informational, low level, vulnerability summaries and groupings. Large related groups of low level vulnerabilities may amount to a design flaw or another avenue for attack.

We use Veracode to ensure that the software we are building is secure.

The most valuable feature is the dynamic application security testing.

It takes a while to get a response to the software composition analysis. It is within an acceptable range but it could still be improved.

In the future, I would like to see the RASP capability built-in.

We have been using Veracode SCA for three months.

SCA is pretty stable.

Scalability doesn't really apply to a software composition analysis tool.

The technical support is pretty good. When I requested help they contacted me within an hour. I don't have any issues with them.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

In summary, I think that this is a good tool and I recommend it for helping with security in software development.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for article scanning.

The article scanning is excellent. 

The composition analysis and common CBEs attached to it are quite good.

The solution offers a lot of really great analysis. There's lots of good data support.

The licensing model could be improved. 

If they can provide an automatic upload model, that would be really good. Right now we have to upload the NK bucket hosting to get through the analysis. That is kind of cumbersome.

The documentation is poor and the technical support isn't helpful.

We've been using the solution for three or four years.

We don't plan on increasing usage. We are a product company. We have three products that are built. All of them go through this solution. We are not a services company. 

We have about 80 people on the solution currently. They are all developers.

We did previously reach out to technical support. When we had to set up all of the automation, we contacted them for assistance. Their documentation is awful and their response time wasn't ideal.

The initial setup was not complex. It was pretty straightforward. However, the integration and automation of the CI cloud was a nightmare. 

Deployment varies. sometimes it takes three months. Sometimes it only takes one hour. The average is one hour, but we have experienced much, much longer deployment times.

I have no idea what the licensing costs on the solution are. Our IT team handles the details.

We were part of the initiation when the company started. They introduced it and we began using the solution. We're just a customer.

For those companies hoping to automate the solution, I would not recommend it. It's too difficult for those heavily dependant on automation. However, for those companies who want to manually use it, I can recommend the solution. In those cases, it's easy to use even if you won't build it as a part of your automation test tools or on any internet server.

I'd rate them eight out of ten. I'd rate them higher, but they have bad automation and terrible documentation. Other than that, they are very good.

Static application security testing, which is the primary use case. 

There were different web applications which were scanned using this tool.

Veracode scans provide a higher number of false positives. Also, the overall reporting structure is complicated, and it's difficult to understand the report.

Veracode provides faster scans compared to other static analysis security testing tools.

Veracode should provide support to more software languages, like ABAP.

Certifying the application security of my SAS-based application code base.

It allows us to prove our security levels to vendors, and additionally helps us with our HIPAA security policies. Also, CA Veracode has provided AppSec best practices and guidance to our teams. Finally, it makes the IT Governance process of the sales cycle easier.

Static and dynamic scans of the code. It is part of our release cycle.

Mitigation review isn't always super easy.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

It is excellent.

Straightforward to set up, but the configuration of the rules engine is difficult and complicated.

It helps us get over the line for security when contracting with customers, and any help reducing security vulnerabilities is a big help to us.

Pricing/licensing is complicated.

Do your research, make sure you implement the tools you need.

I am very likely to recommend Veracode to a colleague.