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Cequence Security vs Coverity comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Cequence Security
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (24th), Bot Management (5th), API Security (6th)
Coverity
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Cequence Security and Coverity aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Cequence Security is designed for Application Security Tools and holds a mindshare of 0.1%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
Coverity, on the other hand, focuses on Static Application Security Testing (SAST), holds 7.5% mindshare, up 6.6% since last year.
Application Security Tools
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2395431 - PeerSpot reviewer
Detect and mitigate attacks with API protection
Compliance with standards like those in Europe often requires ensuring that APIs adhere to OAuth and other security protocols. Many organizations need to verify that their APIs meet these compliance requirements. We can include information about where an API was first recorded and create a detailed chart. Some competitors already offer this feature. It is simple to integrate. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Md. Shahriar Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers impressive reporting features with user-friendliness and high scalability
The solution can be easily setup but requires heavy integration due to the multiple types of port and programming languages involved. Comparing the resource requirements of the solution I would say it can be installed effortlessly. I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. A professional needs some pre-acquired knowledge to manage Coverity's deployment process, but the local solution partners provide support well enough for trouble-free deployment. The overall deployment process of Coverity took around two and a half hours in our organization. The deployment duration depends upon the operating system and resources including high-end RAM and CPU processors.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It uses machine learning algorithms to detect attacks and manage API inventory."
"Coverity integrates with issue-tracking systems like Jira and provides email notifications, alerts, and other features."
"The app analysis is the most valuable feature as I know other solutions don't have that."
"The product has deeper scanning capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Coverity is the wrapper. We use the wrapper to build the C++ component, then we use the other code analysis to analyze the code to the build object, and then send back the result to the SonarQube server. Additionally, it is a powerful capabilities solution."
"The solution effectively identifies bugs in code."
"It provides reports about a lot of potential defects."
"Provides software security, and helps to find potential security bugs or defects."
"The tool as it is can be used for code quality improvement."
 

Cons

"It is expensive."
"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."
"There is an extra step in my organization that involves uploading to servers, which adds overhead."
"The solution needs to improve its false positives."
"Coverity takes a lot of time to dereference null pointers."
"The solution could use more rules."
"The setup takes very long."
"It would be great if we could customize the rules to focus on critical issues."
"They could improve the usability. For example, how you set things up, even though it's straightforward, it could be still be easier."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"Coverity’s price is on the higher side. It should be lower."
"The price is competitive with other solutions."
"The licensing fees are based on the number of lines of code."
"Coverity is very expensive."
"The solution's pricing is comparable to other products."
"The tool's price is somewhere in the middle. It's neither cheap nor expensive. I would rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"I would rate Coverity's pricing as a nine out of ten. It's already very expensive, and it's a problem for us to get more licenses due to the price. The pricing model has some good aspects - for example, a personal license gives access to all languages without code limitations, which is better than some competitors. However, it's still a lot of money for us to spend."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
16%
Educational Organization
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
33%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

How does Cequence Security establish a baseline of normal application behavior and detect anomalies?
Cequence Security employs advanced machine learning and AI techniques to analyze the behavior of our applications in real-time. By continuously monitoring and processing data from user interactions...
What is Cequence Security's API Spartan and how can it help defend our company's infrastructure from bot attacks?
Cequence Security's behavior-based bot defense relies on the industry's largest threat database of bot behaviors, enabling users to track and block automated attacks with unparalleled efficacy rate...
What is API inventory and how does Cequence Security utilize it?
API inventory processes are essential, and Cequence Security recognizes their significance, both from a security and management perspective. The developers of the solution understand that you canno...
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...
What do you like most about Coverity?
The solution has improved our code quality and security very well.
 

Also Known As

Cequence ASP, Cequence Unified API Protection Platform
Synopsys Static Analysis
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

American Express, Lbrands, Ulta Beauty
SAP, Mega International, Thales Alenia Space
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