Coverity Static vs Defensics Protocol Fuzzing comparison

The compared Coverity Static and Defensics Protocol Fuzzing solutions aren't in the same category. Coverity Static is ranked #8 in SAST , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 3.8% mindshare in the category. Defensics Protocol Fuzzing is ranked #4 in FTT , and holds a 17.6% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Coverity Static users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Defensics Protocol Fuzzing users who would recommend it.

Coverity Static

Read 43 Coverity Static reviews

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89% willing to recommend

Defensics Protocol Fuzzing

Read 4 Defensics Protocol Fuzzing reviews

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140 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Coverity Static and Defensics Protocol Fuzzing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Coverity Static

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

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Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (8th)

Defensics Protocol Fuzzing

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

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Fuzz Testing Tools (4th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. Coverity Static is designed for Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and holds a mindshare of 3.8%, down 8.0% compared to last year.
Defensics Protocol Fuzzing, on the other hand, focuses on Fuzz Testing Tools, holds 17.6% mindshare, down 20.0% since last year.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Coverity Static	3.8%
SonarQube	17.7%
Checkmarx One	10.4%
Other	68.1%

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Fuzz Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Defensics Protocol Fuzzing	17.6%
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional	33.2%
GitLab	26.6%
Other	22.599999999999994%

Fuzz Testing Tools

Featured Reviews

Kasiraja Thangapandian

Software Engineering Manager at Visteon Corporation

Using tools for compliance is beneficial but cost concerns persist

We have been using Coverity for quite a long period. It has been fine for our needs. I would rate Coverity between eight to nine, though the cost is high. I would rate their support from Coverity as six. That is the main complaint, but we still appreciate having it.

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Sarath Kumar Choday

Senior Technical Lead at HCL Technologies

Product security tests for switches and router sections

Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install. What I see in the documentation isn't that. Even if something doesn't malfunction, sometimes it is hard to install and execute. The product needs video documentation. This would help a lot more.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Coverity provides excellent compliance and other features, which is a very good part."

"The most valuable feature of Coverity is its interprocedural analysis, which is advantageous because it compares favorably with other tools in terms of security and code analysis."

"Provides software security, and helps to find potential security bugs or defects."

"The ability to scan code gives us details of existing and potential vulnerabilities. What really matters for us is to ensure that we are able to catch vulnerabilities ahead of time."

"We were very comfortable with the initial setup."

"Coverity is easy to use and easy to integrate with CI."

"The product has deeper scanning capabilities."

"One of the most valuable features is Contributing Events. That particular feature helps the developer understand the root cause of a defect. So you can locate the starting point of the defect and figure out exactly how it is being exploited."

More Coverity Static pros

"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."

"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."

"ROI was 100%. Since there are no product suites available that provide the level of testing available with Codenomicon, the development, quality and security assurance departments know that the investment was correct."

"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."

"Simple and straightforward GUI."

Cons

"The solution needs to improve its false positives."

"Right now, the Coverity executable is around 1.2GB to download. If they can reduce it to approximately 600 or 700MB, that would be great. If they decrease the executable, it will be much easier to work in an environment like Docker."

"Reporting engine needs to be more robust."

"Coverity is far from perfection, and I'm not 100 percent sure it's helping me find what I need to find in my role. We need exactly what we are looking for, i.e. security errors and vulnerabilities. It doesn't seem to be reporting while we are changing our code."

"The solution could use more rules."

"There should be additional IDE support."

"The product lacks sufficient customization options."

"The product could be enhanced by providing video troubleshooting guides, making issue resolution more accessible. Troubleshooting without visual guides can be time-consuming."

More Coverity Static cons

"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."

"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."

"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."

"It requires understanding the Defensics protocol."

"You can't implement proprietary ciphering algorithms, nor can you modify protocol models if you need to test customized public protocols."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool was fairly priced."

"The pricing is on the expensive side, and we are paying for a couple of items."

"I rate Coverity's price a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"The solution's pricing is comparable to other products."

"I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, where one is low, and ten is high price."

"The solution is affordable."

"Coverity is very expensive."

"Depending on the usage types, one has to opt for different types of licenses from Coverity, especially to be able to use areas like report viewing or report generation."

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"Licensing is a bit expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

31%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	31

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Questions from the Community

How would you decide between Coverity and Sonarqube?

We researched Coverity, but in the end, we chose SonarQube. SonarQube is a tool for reviewing code quality and security. It helps to guide our development teams during code reviews by providing rem...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coverity?

I do not know about the pricing.

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What needs improvement with Coverity?

The price is a concern, and there are a lot of false positives coming through. Support with Coverity is adequate, but they take a longer time to respond. The core support is not straightforward, an...

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

Synopsys Static Analysis

Codenomicon Defensics

Overview

Coverity gives you the speed, ease of use, accuracy, industry standards compliance, and scalability that you need to develop high-quality, secure applications. Coverity identifies critical software quality defects and security vulnerabilities in code as it’s written, early in the development process, when it’s least costly and easiest to fix. With the Code Sight integrated development environment (IDE) plugin, developers get accurate analysis in seconds in their IDE as they code. Precise actionable remediation advice and context-specific eLearning help your developers understand how to fix their prioritized issues quickly, without having to become security experts.

Coverity seamlessly integrates automated security testing into your CI/CD pipelines and supports your existing development tools and workflows. Choose where and how to do your development: on-premises or in the cloud with the Polaris Software Integrity Platform (SaaS), a highly scalable, cloud-based application security platform. Coverity supports more than 20 languages and 200 frameworks and templates.

Black Duck

Defensics® fuzz testing is a comprehensive, powerful, and automated black box solution that enables organizations to effectively and efficiently discover and remediate security weaknesses in software. By taking a systematic and intelligent approach to negative testing, Defensics allows organizations to ensure software security without compromising on product innovation, increasing time to market, or inflating operational costs.

Black Duck

Sample Customers

SAP, Mega International, Thales Alenia Space

Coriant, CERT-FI, Next Generation Networks

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