Veracode Reviews

I'm using it to troubleshoot and know the issues in my code and resolve them as soon as possible.

Veracode helps me to understand and resolve vulnerabilities in my code. It's very good to have, and what's most interesting is that the Veracode Greenlight gives me real-time output and resolution. I can also schedule calls with the security experts for any resolution. It's good for understanding and resolving issues that my code might have.

Veracode definitely helps in creating a secure environment for both the company as well as the clients. Our clients require their data to be secure. They also require a stable solution. Veracode is helping me in developing a good product. It provides full information and also helps in a quick resolution.

Veracode is secure, and it has coding standards. It helps me in penetration testing and application security consultation. It exposes common vulnerabilities. The static scan is very good, and it gives me valuable information and a very good recommendation of how I can fix it.

We can integrate Veracode for both static and dynamic analysis to reduce the risks in the application and prevent vulnerabilities. A significant benefit is that you have a risk-free code. It minimizes the risks.

It gives visibility into the application status at every phase of development. There is Veracode Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Software Composition Analysis, and Manual Penetration Test throughout SDLC.

Veracode has been very important and helpful in creating stable products because we are able to identify issues in the code and then create powerful and stable products for clients.

Veracode provides all details regarding the issues and the way to resolve them. It makes it easy for me as a developer to understand the issue in a better way. It improves a developer's confidence in the solution when fixing vulnerabilities.

Veracode has saved a lot of our time. It has saved us about 45% time.

Veracode has enhanced security. We are able to identify what is missing and what are the issues in the code. When we know that the code has an issue, we are able to make sure that we correct it. Veracode has helped us a lot in providing a stable, secure solution to our clients.

Veracode has helped us to develop faster because it's so straightforward. It has clear documentation that you can use to create a very good and stable environment for developers to collaborate and create a unique solution.

IDE Scan is the most important feature, and then you have SCA and Platform Scan.

I like the fact that it can be used at any stage of application development. I use scanning with a particular piece of code. There is an extension that helps me to create my code easily in Visual Studio and then find flaws before deploying the code. It's definitely benefiting me and the organization. It's so quick and easy to create a code and then deploy it live.

It's easy to create reports. It works very well. It's straightforward, and it does not require a lot of time. It's a straightforward platform that you can use for performing scans or mitigating issues. It has a very good user interface. FAQs are also helpful in case you are not familiar with it. It's good and straightforward when you integrate it with machine learning platforms.

It's very expensive for a small organization.

I have been using it for a year and a half.

It's a very stable solution.

It's scalable enough. Veracode is being used in the engineering department. It's being only used in one department by two people. It's a developer tool for developing solutions faster, troubleshooting, and debugging.

Their support is good because there is an option to request a consultation. If you face any issue or any difficulty with the scans or mitigation, they can help you out. The support service for me is very costly, but you also have a well-organized FAQ and a very big community for asking questions and getting a solution. I'd rate their support a 10 out of 10.

Positive

I haven't used a different solution. This is the first solution I've used.

I was involved in its deployment. It took me one week to implement Veracode. The process was straightforward. If you are lost or have any issues, you can read the documentation.

I implemented it.

It's not so huge to provide a lot of return on investment, but it's helping us to have a stable solution. It's a secure platform, but in terms of the return on investment, it hasn't made a very good impact yet. We have only seen 10% to 15% ROI.

It has reduced the cost of DevSecOps for the organization because we can use one platform to develop, troubleshoot, and debug faster, so it has helped us a lot.

It's very expensive, especially when you are a very small organization. If you're using Veracode at an individual level, for example, you're a developer or you run agents, the pricing might not affect you, but if you're using it at a company level to troubleshoot security issues, the pricing is not quite favorable. It may affect ROI.

Veracode is good. It's for organizations that want to give their customers both security and privacy. It's good in case you want to dive deep into the code and get the flaws that could be dangerous to both the organization and the customers using an application. If you are looking to create a good application that is also secure, I'd recommend Veracode.

Overall, I'd rate Veracode a 9 out of 10.

Our primary use cases are uploading and assigning scans, uploading compiled codes into the sandboxes, and searching marks to determine whether scans have been completed.

We have multiple locations, teams, and endpoints; we're a worldwide telecommunications company with over 2000 internal and external apps. Some apps communicate from the outside to the inside, but every app goes through Veracode.

We have to scan about 2000 apps, and we're already at 366 scanned within the year's first two months. Additionally, the company has been using Veracode for years; both are testaments to the solution's efficiency.

The platform provides visibility into application status at every phase of the development- Veracode Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Software Composition Analysis, and Manual Penetration Testing throughout our SDLC. In terms of DevSecOps processes, the solution makes them quicker and smoother, with less confusion.   

Veracode positively affects our organization's ability to fix flaws; we have a particular app at the moment that failed the scan twice due to its vulnerabilities. Without the solution, we likely wouldn't get that.

The solution has positively affected our organization's overall security posture and will continue to improve it. 

I like the sandbox, the ability to upload compiled code, and how easy it is.

It's also straightforward to find scans we've uploaded. 

The solution's ability to prevent vulnerable code from going into production is incredible. I have done several consultations and remediation calls with the app team, and Veracode catches almost everything. It picks up the same issues in everything we scan, and we've done a lot of retests that way; the tool is very proficient in this area.  

Veracode helps our developers save time; it's a straightforward product that shows us the vulnerabilities and allows us to relay them back to the developers. This is faster and more efficient than staff going through the code manually. The solution is like having a proofreading app for our code rather than using a proofreader.  

The sandbox could use some improvement; when creating a sandbox, it requires us to put the application name in twice, which seems unnecessary.

We've been using the solution for a month and a half. 

Veracode is very stable; unlike many programs and apps, I've never had a problem with it.

The solution is scalable; we're a global telecom company, and we use it to scan every one of our over 2000 apps. 

The technical support is excellent. 

Positive

I'm unfamiliar with the solution's pricing, but it must be worth the cost from a company perspective, as we have been using it for years and have no plans to move away from it.

The product was in place long before I arrived at the company, so I don't know if they evaluated other options.

I rate the solution 10 out of 10. 

I recommend Veracode to any company looking for this type of platform. Though I need to become more familiar with competitor products, I like going into programs and clicking around. Even if I don't initially understand something within Veracode, I can keep going and make sense of it. I updated my resume to include my new experience with the solution.

Veracode reduced the cost of DevSecOps for our organization; we upload a scan, run the test, get the vulnerabilities, and set up a remediation meeting. This makes communication more manageable, and the information is more visible, as all our staff can access the scan results. In several instances, we've consulted with employees from the Veracode side, and they've been very helpful in walking our app team and testers through whatever vulnerabilities we've had issues with.  

I am a software engineer, and one of my clients needed Veracode for security requirements. We needed to send the code through some security tools to see if there are breaches or malicious code that could attack the company. In this case, the client used Veracode to scan third-party libraries from our application. Veracode was running on a private cloud using Azure. 

Veracode helped us prevent possible security breaches. The team can anticipate and correct issues earlier instead of waiting for someone to find the issue or discover it when your application is attacked. 

The report is good because it has lots of security information. It isn't related to the code itself, like the line of the code or the connected library that contains an issue. It's sometimes difficult to figure out how to solve that.

Veracode saves time in the development process because we can anticipate security issues in an application. On the other hand, from a software development perspective, it could be a technical increase in depth. After we develop a feature in the application and run Veracode, we might find some security issues we need to fix. 

For example, we spent a month building a feature on an application, but during this month, Veracode found a security issue in the third-party library we were using and reported it. If we had found the issue mid-development, we would need to rebuild the solution. Sometimes, it might increase the technical depth of the application because this type of security flaw was not found previously in our daily work. 

Veracode creates a list of issues. You can go through them one by one and click through to a new window with all the information about the issue discovered.

We waste a lot of time figuring out which results are false positives, and it has affected our trust in the tool. After we've spent time training and setting up the tool correctly, we need to scan our code and remove all the false positives. Finally, it's good enough to identify our security issues.

We get some false positives with JavaScript languages like React, TypeScript, and Angular. The problem is rooted in the build process of JavaScript, not the code we are using. This is something we spend lots of time trying to resolve. When we point to a specific library and review that on the code, we can see it is a part of the build that isn't going into production. It's only a part of the build because JavaScript has a different build process. 

This hasn't happened in .NET or C# because we use can all the libraries used when coding. In JavaScript, it's tough, and we spend tons of time trying to find the issue. However, it's not a problem because it's a pre-compiled language. This isn't unique to Veracode. Black Duck does the same thing.

Maybe Veracode could automatically detect the language type first and improve the way it scans JavaScript to reduce the false positive rate for this specific language. Also, in the reporting area, it could connect to the source code Veracode uses for the third-party library.

When Veracode finds security issues, it creates a report with the number and description of the issues. Sometimes, we are not able to connect that issue with the third-party library containing the code and applications the developers are building. The relationship between the flaw in the code and the third-party library could be more apparent because developers may not realize that the root cause is the library, not the code itself. 

The compliance features are good, but it's pretty picky in terms of what it considers a security issue. I and the other developers struggle to understand what is flagged as a security vulnerability. If you can see a security issue in there, you can see all the documentation, but it's difficult to relate that to the code to determine why the issue happened. It could be clearer how to find the issue in the structure of the code. 

I'm not using Veracode anymore, but I used it for eight months in the last year. 

Veracode is stable overall. When we start the process on the Veracode side, the report generates in less than a minute, and we can see the issues. I don't have any problems with stability.

I used a tool called Black Duck when I worked for another company two years ago. The client chose to use Veracode. It wasn't my option. 

We put Veracode in our pipeline, so the process runs automatically during development. It isn't something we can run manually. There are scripts that run when we start. There isn't any maintenance on the developer side. A designated team takes care of all this.

I don't think we've seen a return on this, but it's hard to calculate because you have to estimate the value of a breach that hasn't happened. This is the main benefit of using this tool. I don't know how to measure that.

I rate Veracode eight out of 10. It can help you improve your security by identifying and preventing issues faster. At the same time, you should know that using Veracode will lengthen the development process because the team needs to check and correct issues. It could increase your development costs. 

Using Veracode has challenged us to be more conscious of security. Sometimes, developers just want to build code. This tool allows you to check if the code or libraries are secure enough to add. 

The most valuable features of Veracode Static Analysis are its ability to work with GitLab and GitHub so that you can do the reviews and force the code.

I have been using Veracode Static Analysis for approximately five years.

The stability of Veracode Static Analysis is good.

I rate the stability of Veracode Static Analysis a nine out of ten.

We have approximately 900 people using the solution.

The solution is scalable, but there is a high cost attached to it.

I use SonarQube with Veracode Static Analysis.

The initial setup of Veracode Static Analysis was reasonably quick.

We did the deployment of the solution in-house.

The price of Veracode Static Analysis could improve.

Sometimes the model that Veracode pushes forward for you to use isn't beneficial. I advise companies to use SonarQube and Veracode together because we use SonarQube for all the individual developers to scan and do their checks and tasks before they do a full peer review to make sure that they have it clean and it's understood. We then use Veracode Static Analysis for repository control because you need fewer licenses. Veracode Static Analysis is expensive and this is why we split the two solutions.

There are extra costs per developer and it can get expensive quickly. They charge approximately $25 a month for each developer that uses it.

I rate the price of Veracode Static Analysis an eight out of ten.

I would advise people to use Veracode Static Analysis in the final levels of deployment. For example, when you used another tooling, such as SonarQube to do the initial tasks with the developers, then for peer reviews it is best to use Veracode Static Analysis for making sure that your repositories are controlled and managed properly.

I would always advise people to deploy at least two tools, one at a lower level to do the peer-to-peer that is cheaper, such as SonarQube because close to being free. Then use something, such as Veracode for the repository control and the management control of your data cubes.

No solution is a hundred percent perfect. I wouldn't rate any solution a 10 because they've all got faults. SonarQube might pick something up that Veracode Static Analysis doesn't and vice versa.

I rate Veracode Static Analysis a seven out of ten.

We use Veracode Static Analysis in the IDE for our engineers to be able to catch security issues while they're coding. Additionally, we use it for the Veracode verified program to show that we're scanning and compliant, and we get the third-party seal of approval.

It's a scanning security, static analysis code scanning software.

Veracode Static Analysis has benefited our company because we are catching potential security issues earlier in the pipeline. Before anything goes to human code review, Veracode Static Analysis catches issues as the engineer is working in their IDE.

The most valuable feature of Veracode Static Analysis is the scanning.

Veracode Static Analysis can improve the false positive. There are always improvements that can be done to the false positive rate. There are some things that get flagged that are not an issue. However, it is not a huge concern.

I have been using Veracode Static Analysis for approximately 18 months.

Veracode Static Analysis is stable.

We have got 5 million lines of code and it hasn't choked at all but seems to run just fine.

We have approximately 40 users and most of those are frontline engineers. Additionally, we have security officers who use it to run reports and team leads that use it for training. We plan to increase our usage when we have new deployments.

I rate the scalability of Veracode Static Analysis a ten out of ten.

I have not used the support from Veracode Static Analysis.

We used HCL AppScan prior to Veracode Static Analysis.

The deployment can be done in approximately 10 minutes. We use Bitbucket Pipelines and Veracode Static Analysis is integrated into our deployment pipelines.

I rate the initial setup of Veracode Static Analysis an eight out of ten.

We did the deployment of the solution in-house. We typically can do the deployments with one person.

I cannot say we have had a return on investment because we haven't had any security incidents, but we didn't have any before using Veracode Static Analysis either.

The price of Veracode Static Analysis is expensive. There is an annual fee to use the solution and the company is upfront with the pricing model and fees.

I rate the price of Veracode Static Analysis a three out of ten.

We evaluated Checkmarx and Synopsys before choosing Veracode Static Analysis.

My advice to others is if they use Veracode Static Analysis they are using a very solid solution. You get what you pay for. It's an expensive solution, but it's very good. You're going to save a lot of time and a lot of headaches with fewer false positives, but you're going to pay for it. It's good if you want to automate something into your pipeline and it's going to run fast and give you good results. I would choose Veracode Static Analysis, but be cognizant of the cost.

I rate Veracode Static Analysis an eight out of ten.

Every build running CI/CD on our applications, like Bamboo or Azure DevOps, will be scanned through Veracode SCA first. If its report for the build has a vulnerability or redundancy that is outdated or vulnerable, then that is our use case for our application. We have a lot of applications that need to automate these things, then get the report to the application team. Therefore, the security team needs to check these one by one.

We have a lot of people using Veracode, like the security team and DevOp. Also, the application team checks the Veracode result and updates it necessarily. Since it is integrated into our applications, there are a lot of users.

Our deployment model is on-prem. We deploy it as a JAR file inside our Cloud CMS.

We are using it to fix flaws in the code. Sometimes, we have reports that need to be checked. If it is a false positive, then we need to submit the false positive. However, if it is positive, then we need to fix it and perform a new scan to make sure the vulnerability has been fixed on the latest report.

After scanning, we receive report slides from Veracode. Their reports can help us to see the CVEs that we haven't even heard of and best practices that we can do, e.g., using logging properly, which is helpful. It helps us 50% of the time.

It has increased our security productivity by approximately 30%. It has reduced our development productivity by a bit less, since it sometimes breaks a lot of modules.

Veracode SCA helps us know about vulnerabilities before they go into our environment. This is one of its best benefits.

The most valuable feature is the security and vulnerability part of the solution. It shows medium to high vulnerabilities so we can find them, then upgrade our model before it is too late. It is useful because it automates security. Also, it makes things more efficient. So, there is no need for the security team to scan every time. The application team can update it whenever possible in development. Because we are using the Azure methodology, this helps us make sure that the application team can do it using the proper Azure method. For example, when we are using scrum, the application team can improve this Veracode scan on this scrum methodology. Therefore, if they were going to create a pull request, it would be detected. It would be scanned first before it goes to production or another environment, then they can fix it so we can do development more rapidly.

Our fix rate has increased by 15%. We know that we can update something now or put it in our roadmap to update later on in our application.

The mitigation recommendations are sometimes helpful. Sometimes, they are outdated. Sometimes, there are a lot of false positives inside Veracode. That is something that I already suggested to the Veracode team.

It could have better integration with our pipeline. If we could have better integration with our application pipeline, e.g., Jira, Bamboo, or Azure DevOps, then that will be very helpful. Right now, it is quite hard to integrate the solution into our existing pipeline.

If it has better integration with our DevOps pipeline, then we would use it more. However, at the moment, if the solution can be used for a new project, then we can integrate it. However, if that takes too long, we will integrate other things that are faster.

We have been using the solution for two years and a few months.

The biggest problem is with the false positives. However, it is quite stable for scanning compared to some other applications. That is why we are still using it.

At the moment, it is hard to implement on our pipeline. Therefore, we need better scalability, as it is quite hard to scale it to bigger projects because then the scanning will take a lot more time.

Their technical support is helpful. If we send a message to them, then they respond within the SLA. I would rate the customer service as eight out of 10.

Positive

While Veracode SCA may take some time to scan, it helps to reduce the number of scans that we need to do. Before, we needed to scan manually multiple times. Whereas, with SCA, we can just check one by one, then send it as a batch and scan it again. We used to scan 10 times or so. With this automated system, we now scan on average five or six times.

I know how hard it was for our DevOps to set it up.

The deployment process is different for each application. There are a lot of different things that we need to set for this solution. If we have a standardized system, not only using JAR but also other things, then that would be very helpful and make it easier for us to integrate. Currently, there is a lot of preparation that goes into setting up Veracode for integration with our existing applications.

Depending on the pipeline, it takes about five working days to deploy.

On our team, the solution has been very helpful. For more than two years, it has helped us get a lot of things on our application. It is easier for us to do fixes instead of just doing a pen test every time, then getting everyone to check it. 

It has good, fair licensing. If the price could depend on the scope of its scanning or the languages supported, then that would be better.

It is quite important to have fixed or static costs because it is easier for our financing.

Compared to other solutions, Veracode is more expensive but offers a lot for free.

We also evaluated SonarQube and Snyk in PoCs. We thought SonarQube and Veracode were good. 

We went with Veracode because its processes are very detailed and it supports a lot of languages. Though, compared to other solutions, it is difficult to integrate into the pipeline and can improve on its false positives.

Try all of the features. Make sure that you use the Veracode SCA with different languages since we can see differences between scanning Java, Node.js, or PHP.

For our site, we only use SAST and DAST for penetration testing. Also, the penetration testing for SCA is handled by another vendor since we have a different vendor for this usage. 

It helps indirectly with Webex.

I would rate the solution as eight out of 10.

My company produces a SaaS application that is used by very large customers for pricing analytics and sales workflows. The data that our customers put into our software is very sensitive and confidential. This means that they want a high degree of confidence that our solution is secure.

We use Veracode as one of the pillars that we can point to as helping us to deliver on the promise of having a secure product. We have a multi-dimensional security program and Veracode is one important aspect of that.

Veracode provides guidance for fixing vulnerabilities. It provides guidance to help us understand what it flags, and what we can do about it. It still takes some interpretation and insight on our side, but we aren't generally security experts, so we get good information from Veracode to help inform us.

The developers are able to understand the types of issues Veracode looks for, and then as they see that happen, it helps them to learn. It's good because they consider it the next time and hopefully, we don't need Veracode to flag the issue because there is no issue.

With respect to efficiency when it comes to creating secure software, Veracode is able to help us with very low overhead. There's not a lot of work needed on our side unnecessarily. Once we've wired everything together, it's seamless to get the scan done and get the results back and know what we need to do about them.

We use Veracode for some of our older, more monolithic software, as well as for our newer solutions, which are designed to be cloud-native. We've found Veracode useful in both use cases; first, with our huge monolithic software, as well as with our microservices cloud-native solutions.

In terms of AppSec, there are a lot of benefits that cloud-native design brings in terms of not only cost and scalability, but testability and security. Certainly, the design patterns of cloud-native are well aligned with delivering good security practices. Working with products that support cloud-native solutions is an important part of our evolution.

Using Veracode has helped with developer security training and skill-building. It's definitely a good way to create awareness and to deliver information that's meaningful and in context. It's not abstract or theoretical. It's the code that they've written yesterday that they're getting feedback on, and it is a pretty ideal way to learn and improve.

The static scan capability is very powerful. It's very good in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio. The findings that we get are meaningful, or at least understandable, and there's not a bunch of junk that some other code scanning tools can sometimes produce. Having results like that make it hard to find the valuable bits. Veracode is highly effective at finding meaningful issues.

The speed of the static scan is okay. It meets or exceeds our expectations. For our monolithic application, which is a million lines of code, it takes a while to scan, but that's totally understandable. If it could be done magically in five minutes, I wouldn't say that's bad. Overall, it's very reasonable and appropriate.

Veracode has policy reporting features for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. We have one such policy configured and it's helpful to highlight high-priority areas. We can address and help focus our effects, which ensures that we're spending our time in the best way possible for security movement. The policy is a good structure to guide results over time.

We use Veracode as one metric that we track internally. It gives us information in terms of knowing that we are resolving issues and not introducing issues. I cannot estimate metrics such as, for example, Veracode has made us 10% more secure. I can certainly say it's very important when we talk to our customers about the steps we follow. We do external pen tests, we do web app pen tests, and we also use Veracode. It's certainly very helpful in those conversations, where we can state that it is one of our security practices, but there's no outcome-based quantitative statistic that I can point to.

The static scan is the feature that we use the most, as it gives us insight into our source code. We have it integrated with our continuous integration, continuous delivery system, so we can get insight quickly. We're doing scans daily, so that's the most important feature for us.

The interface is great. It allows us to look at our different applications, understand all of the different types of scans, as well as the results. The types of testing include SAST, DAST, and SCA, and it pulls all of the information together into a single view. It also produces reports that we can give to our customers when requested.

Veracode certainly provides a quick and intuitive way to understand the results, to see the context of them, and to identify what we need to do to address them. In general, it's a pretty quick way to get the information that we need in the most useful way possible. Then, we can turn around an action plan.

We have it integrated with our build pipeline and that works well. It's very important because we don't have to complete a separate, manual step of sending the software up to Veracode to scan it and get the results. It's great. the more things that we can integrate into the build pipeline, the better. It's a very positive thing.

Veracode is very good in terms of not having a lot of false positives. It would be very frustrating if a tool gave you 10 good results but 50 false positives. Even with the issues that we get that we choose not to address, we can still understand why they're being flagged. We have found that the results are meaningful and accurate, which gives us confidence in the solution when fixing vulnerabilities. 

We may choose not to address them for different reasons. For example, it could be because it's an issue about input sanitization, but we have another layer on top of that component to handle that task. We can recognize that it's important that Veracode is flagging those things at that lower level, and that they're bringing that additional insight and consideration to the designs that we're choosing. Overwhelmingly, even the issues we choose not to address are still valuable and meaningful, so the actual false positive rate is quite low.

This is a very useful and powerful tool that ensures our code is well-designed and correctly implemented. It is important that it's only one aspect of a security program and not the only insight or the only test. That said, it provides us with some pretty important feedback and insights that we wouldn't have a great way to get otherwise.

The ideal situation in terms of putting the results in front of the developers would be with Veracode integration into the developer environment (IDE). They do have a plugin, which we've used in the past, but we were not as positive about it. The pricing model was expensive and the results were not the same as the full solution analysis. It gives a differently scoped "just in time" analysis within the context of the IDE, so it didn't speak to the same problem space.

The best situation would be the one where the developers don't even need to log into the web portal, and the results from the scans would be delivered into their IDEs. It would be an asynchronous job, but if they could see the results right there, while they're working on the code, then they wouldn't need to go to a separate tool to look at the information to figure out what to do next.

The workflow today on the build side is optimal, so imagine that's still doing the same thing but then in the backend, whenever a developer has that project open in the browser, if they chose to, they could enable a view to see the most recent Veracode results of that module. That scan might be from last night or six hours ago or any other point, and that's fine. It would be the best possible situation to put the results and the actions right in front of the developer, in the tool that they're already using when they're touching the code.

The only other thing that we've found a reasonable workaround with is how to work with microservices in the context of Veracode. This was necessary because Veracode's licensing model and the interaction model are built around an idea of an application. When you're talking about a section of business logic that's being delivered by possibly dozens of microservices, there is some friction with Veracode in terms of how that application gets defined and how the scans occur and get reported on.

When we reached out to Veracode about this, I got a slide deck that provided us with different options of how they recommend proceeding in this context. It was helpful, and clearly a question they've considered and they had answers ready to go on. The ideas helped us and essentially reinforced what we were already thinking. It's getting the job done, but it still feels like a little bit of a square peg in a round hole and it could be a little smoother in terms of that interaction.

The problem boils down to how we fit the microservices architecture into the Veracode notion of an application. We need to be able to get a holistic view across the microservices, which is extremely challenging, especially when those microservices are owned by different teams who have different needs to see and respond to the scans. 

I have been using Veracode for between five and six years.

The stability is great. They've probably had some downtime, but I don't know about them. From our perspective, it's been solid.

I know the web portal has some planned downtimes because I see the splash screens about them. They're good about warning you, but they're also performed at very weird times, like the middle of the night, so it's never blocked me from getting in when I need to get in.

We use Veracode for all of our software development. We have more than 100 engineers, and our entire engineering team is using it. Obviously, every team has some designated people who look at this more than others, so not everybody's in there every day, but in terms of the software we write, we know that it's all being scanned constantly.

Over the last few years, we've made a couple of acquisitions of other companies and when we've done that, we very quickly brought those solutions in as well. We've seen the value and because of that, it's part of our onboarding process when we integrate other companies into our environment.

If we create another solution or we acquire another company, we will certainly expand our use of Veracode to match within our current solution stack.

The support has been good at understanding issues. There are two aspects of technical support. One concerns issues with the platform in terms of functionality, and the other is that they will provide you with assistance in terms of interpreting your findings.

Our experience from the technical side is that they helped us with figuring out how to best use the platform for microservices applications. They were very helpful in that conversation.

We also have experience with the other layer of technical support that Veracode provides, which is where you can get consultations about the findings. We've done a few of those where you set up an appointment with a Veracode engineer. It helps to understand the results if the platform isn't totally clear on why something is a problem or what we need to do about it. For us, that's been pretty good.

Obviously, the Veracode engineer doesn't have the full understanding of what our application does and in a short call, you can't possibly do an architectural deep dive to understand the context of an issue, but their conversations have been useful when we've had them in terms of understanding issues and context and if we need to do anything.

Prior to using Veracode, we used other code quality scanning tools, but not anything at the level of Veracode for security issues.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was pretty easy to get going and we've incrementally gotten better and deeper as we've used it over the years.

The initial setup was manual uploads of applications, and then it was about incorporating it into our build pipelines and using the sandbox to support our microservices architecture. We've gotten more mature over time, but time to initial use and results were very easy.

Only a very short time is required for deployment, as there is very little that has to be done. Ours was completed within a couple of days and that's a matter of coordination in terms of getting our teams to upload a solution and figure it out. It was a learning experience for us but there was no time or delay brought on by the solution.

When we first began with Veracode, the initial strategy was just to get our first solution uploaded and scanned and see what the results looked like. We didn't have a systematic history of doing that, back then.

With approximately 500 employees, we're not a huge company. Deploying it in an enterprise company would be a different situation but for us, it was just a matter of understanding how we needed to configure the platform and how we needed to provide our software and states and get good results.

It probably took a couple of uploads of trial and error and we were running.

We implemented the solution in-house. It is not that complicated.

In terms of maintenance, there is certainly some overhead involved for each team. They have to make sure that the build pipeline integration is still working and essentially, that we're still getting results. Occasionally, for whatever reason, it breaks and somebody has to go in and fix it.

I can't say that there is no staffing required for maintenance but it's rare. In total, a few hours a month across the company is spent keeping it going. More time is spent evaluating and resolving the findings, which is part of our development work. That's not imposed by the solution but rather a positive outcome from using Veracode. As such, I wouldn't count that as maintenance. 

We have seen a return on our investment with Veracode. I can't point to a dollar figure, but I've been directly involved in customer conversations where we can talk about our security program and how Veracode is an important element. We've distributed report summaries and talked about results with our customers and having this information in those conversations is definitely valuable.

It's also very useful that we can talk about it with our security auditors. We have SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, and they don't specify that you must have a static analysis tool. But when we need to maintain secure engineering practices, having a tool like Veracode is very important for us to demonstrate that to auditors. There's certainly value there as well.

There is also a tremendous value on the marketplace that we get from having those security audits and certificates, which is a second-order of value that Veracode drives.

I can't say with certainty that Veracode reduces the cost of application security, although I would say that it focuses our effort. It gives us guidance and prioritization on where we should spend time. Otherwise, we might not know about particular issues. We might inadvertently spend time on things that aren't that valuable. So, the value is more about focusing on where we need to spend time.

From a cost perspective, it seems okay, although we will probably evaluate alternatives next time it's up for renewal because for us, it's a relatively high cost, and we want to make sure that we are using our resources most appropriately.

I like that the platform provides you with some flexibility. We had to revise our licensing because it did not fit our environment. We wanted to license based on the number of applications, rather than another measure such as the number of lines of code. There was clearly some complexity that led us to be in that situation, although it seems preventable. Ever since our last renewal, the licensing has been smooth and clear. There is a certain amount of flexibility in that regard but also, they allow us some leeway in our current model.

There have been times when for some reason, we spin up a new application on a temporary basis. It may be because we're trying a new configuration. Even though we're licensed for a certain number of applications, the platform lets us exceed that. Consequently, we receive an email stating that we can't do that forever, but it's very useful to have the flexibility for the couple of times that we've used it to briefly exceed the application account.

I am not sure what other solutions, if any, the company looked at before choosing Veracode initially. We have renewed it since that time and we pretty quickly decided to stick with Veracode, rather than switching. However, because of the relatively high cost, we will probably evaluate other options next time it's up for renewal.

We see at least quarterly updates about new features or things that have been fixed. It happens without our involvement, which is great.

My advice for anybody who is considering Veracode is to test it. Although I have not compared Veracode against other products as part of an evaluation process, it would be very useful and very easy to actually try it. Top-load your application, get the results and take a look at what Veracode finds. This is the most useful activity somebody could do.

This is a product that lives up to its promise. It's easy to use, and it's predictable. There are some improvement opportunities but on the whole, it's very good at what it does. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We are using it for two purposes. The first is to analyze the final binaries in our normal development cycle and the second is for auditing old software.

It's a SaaS solution.

Veracode is able to analyze the final software products. We compile the applications and it's an advantage for us because there are a lot of areas where we don't have the source code. In some companies, only internal development is taking place and they have the source code and everything else for the software. With those companies, there are other tools that we can use. But for use cases where our company buys a product with the source code, but only the final executables or the binaries, only Veracode is able to work on that type of tool. We are working in the financial sector for big bank banks and insurance companies. A lot of times, these types of companies don't have the source code for the applications, only the final applications. This is the biggest advantage of Veracode, that it's able to analyze these types of applications.

We use the scanning process to help our security professionals and developers fix flaws in the code and that helps speed up the development cycle. It helps to "shift-left" all of the security control to the earliest phase of the development cycle. It has sped up the development cycle significantly. An unexpected vulnerability can stop the development pipeline, at least for a little while, and we are able to avoid that.

It has also helped to increase our fix rate by almost 100 percent. In the past, if it turned out that we had vulnerabilities, we had no time to correct them. We went into production with them. Now, we are able to fix everything, 100 percent, in the development cycle.

In terms of best practices, we have the results from Veracode and then we have a Knowledge Base of the types of vulnerabilities and how they should be corrected by our developers.

Another benefit is that it has helped us with certification and audits. We have a lot of automated reports based on the scans and we can show them to the auditors. That has saved us a lot of money and work.

And Veracode SCA has helped to reduce the risk of a security breach because it finds vulnerabilities as early as possible. It has increased our security and development teams’ productivity because, with the automated scanning, we are able to scan much more than previously. It saves us at least one week per development cycle, if not more.

The recommendations from Veracode have improved our efforts in fixing potential vulnerabilities, and not just finding them. That's important for us because fixing is a very expensive process. If you can save time on that, it is a big help. And SCA’s automated, peer, and expert advice have definitely reduced remediation times, saving us at least a week per development cycle.

Overall, SCA has significantly lowered the risk of vulnerabilities. If we didn't identify them before production, and it turned out that there were vulnerabilities, there would be a big risk. We would have to go into production with them or stop the development pipeline. So it lowers the security risk significantly by doing early scanning. It has reduced our risk by at least 60 percent. It definitely helps create secure software. That is 100 percent important because we are working for financial companies.

It's good that it's cloud-based because we don't have to operate a new IT system for security scanning.

It provides a centralized view across all testing types, including SaaS, DAST, SCA, and manual penetration testing. We now have a central place with overall visibility.

In addition, the mitigation recommendations provided by the scanning engine are good. They are not all perfect, but they are good and usable.

There is room for improvement in the speed of the system. Sometimes, the servers are very busy and slow. Also, because we are located in Europe, it would be a big help if they had a European or national service, because of the regulations, not only because of the speed.

Also, the integration with SonarQube is very weak, so we had to implement a custom solution to extend it.

We have been using Veracode Software Composition Analysis for more than two years.

The stability is good. We haven't had any problems.

The scalability issue is a good question because it's not too fast, but it's scalable because it's cloud-based.

We use it for 10 critical applications.

Their technical support staff is skilled. We have been able to solve all of our problems with them. I wouldn't rate them a 10 because sometimes it's time-consuming to get the right guy to answer our questions. But we always get answers to our questions.

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We used SonarQube because the developers liked it. We also used Checkmarx. We switched to Veracode SCA because of the binary scanning ability. Neither Checkmarx nor SonarQube is able to do that.

The initial setup was very easy. Because it's a cloud-based service, we were able to do it without the help of Veracode. We just read the recommendations and followed them. We had three guys involved, two developers and one security guy.

It took three months to implement. Our implementation strategy was to do a pilot and then everybody in the organization copied the reference implementation.

Our return on investment is due to saving a lot of development hours.

It's too expensive for the European market. That is why, in a big bank with 400 applications, we are able to use it for only 10 of them. But the other solutions are also expensive, so it wasn't a differentiator.

The static cost model is not that important. Veracode works on a subscription model, so we have to pay for it every year. 

We chose Veracode's Software Composition Analysis after we evaluated more than 10 products. Among those we evaluated were Checkmarx, Fortify, and SonarQube. The primary differentiator was the binary scanning use case.

Use Veracode for the special use case of binary scanning, because it is the best in this special use case.

Security Labs is very good as well. We are not using it day-to-day, but it's a good feature.