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We performed a comparison between Contrast Security Protect and Coverity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Contrast Security Protect vs. Coverity Report (Updated: September 2022).
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives.""The solution has excellent real-time capabilities.""Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."

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"The product is easy to use.""The solution has helped to increase staff productivity and improved our work significantly by approximately 20 percent.""The most valuable feature of Coverity is its software security feature called the Checker. If you share some vulnerability or weakness then the software can find any potential security bug or defect. The code integration tool enables some secure coding standards and implements some Checkers for Live Duo. So we can enable secure coding and Azure in this tool. So in our software, we can make sure our software combines some industry supervised data.""I like Coverity's capability to scan codes once we push it. We don't need more time to review our colleagues' codes. Its UI is pretty straightforward.""The features I find most valuable is that our entire company can publish the analysis results into our central space.""I encountered a bug with Coverity, and I opened a ticket. Support provided me with a workaround. So it's working at the moment, or at least it seems to be.""Coverity is scalable.""The solution effectively identifies bugs in code."

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Cons
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration.""Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports.""There's room for improvement in the initial setup."

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"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.""Coverity takes a lot of time to dereference null pointers.""The setup takes very long.""Reporting engine needs to be more robust.""Some features are not performing well, like duplicate detection and switch case situations.""They could improve the usability. For example, how you set things up, even though it's straightforward, it could be still be easier.""We use GitHub and Gitflow, and Coverity does not fit with Gitflow. I have to create a screen for our branches, and it's a pain for developers. It has been difficult to integrate Coverity with our system.""Ideally, it would have a user-based license that does not have a restriction in the number of lines of code."

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  • "Coverity is quite expensive."
  • "The licensing fees are based on the number of lines of code."
  • "The price is competitive with other solutions."
  • "It is expensive."
  • "Coverity is very expensive."
  • "This is a pretty expensive solution. The overall value of the solution could be improved if the price was reduced. Licensing is done on an annual basis."
  • "The pricing is very reasonable compared to other platforms. It is based on a three year license."
  • "The pricing is on the expensive side, and we are paying for a couple of items."
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    Top Answer:The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives.
    Top Answer:Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:The solution has improved our code quality and security very well.
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    Also Known As
    Contrast Protect
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    Overview

    Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of security technology that enables software applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks, heralding the new era of self-protecting software. Contrast's patented deep security instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate assessment and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio, without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has sensors that work actively inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure the entire enterprise from development, to operations, to production.

    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 22 languages and over 70 frameworks and templates.

    Offer
    Easily Spot Vulnerabilities & Stop Attacks in Real-Time

    Protect your applications from attacks by detecting and automatically fixing vulnerabilities. Get a quick, personalized demo to see how you can better protect your business with Contrast Security.

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    Sample Customers
    Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.
    MStar Semiconductor, Alcatel-Lucent
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company36%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Retailer9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company27%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Government5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise76%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise68%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
    Buyer's Guide
    Contrast Security Protect vs. Coverity
    September 2022
    Find out what your peers are saying about Contrast Security Protect vs. Coverity and other solutions. Updated: September 2022.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews while Coverity is ranked 4th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 33 reviews. Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4, while Coverity is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx and Veracode. See our Contrast Security Protect vs. Coverity report.

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