Coverity vs Tenable Security Center comparison

The compared Black Duck and Tenable solutions aren't in the same category. Black Duck is ranked #5 in SAST , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 7.2% mindshare in the category. Tenable is ranked #3 in RBVM , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 11.6% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Black Duck users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Tenable users who would recommend it.

Coverity

Read 43 Coverity reviews

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89% willing to recommend

Tenable Security Center

Read 54 Tenable Security Center reviews

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865 Comparison Views

96% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Coverity

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (5th)

Tenable Security Center

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (4th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (10th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

Coverity and Tenable Security Center aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Coverity is designed for Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and holds a mindshare of 7.2%, up 6.7% compared to last year.
Tenable Security Center, on the other hand, focuses on Risk-Based Vulnerability Management, holds 11.6% mindshare, down 23.1% since last year.

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Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Featured Reviews

Jaile Sebes

Senior Software Architect at Siemens Industry

Resolving critical software issues demands faster implementation and better integration

We use Coverity primarily to find issues such as software bugs and memory leaks, especially in C++ and C# projects. It helps us identify deadlocks, synchronization issues, and product crashes Coverity has been instrumental in resolving product crashes by detecting various issues like deadlocks.…

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OndrejKOVAC

Solution engineer at EXPERTience

Empower clients with risk-based vulnerability management through continuous workflow and valuable insights

Tenable Security Center could improve by implementing more dynamic data displays and translating reports into European languages. This is especially relevant in Central Eastern Europe, where clients often require reports in local languages. Additionally, the licensing model could be more flexible for managed security providers, similar to a pay-as-you-go model.

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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

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

"Coverity gives advisory and deviation features, which are some of the parts I liked."

"It's pretty stable. I rate the stability of Coverity nine out of ten."

"Coverity integrates with issue-tracking systems like Jira and provides email notifications, alerts, and other features."

"The features I find most valuable is that our entire company can publish the analysis results into our central space."

"The product has deeper scanning capabilities."

"The solution has improved our code quality and security very well."

"The most valuable feature of Coverity is that it shows examples of what is actually wrong with the code."

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"What is useful to me is being able to fulfill very customized scanning policies. In the clinical environment, because of vendor control, we can't perform credential-vulnerability scanning. And network scans, which I've done before, can cause a lot of impact. Being able to create very customized policies to be able to routinely scan and audit our clinical networks, while simultaneously not causing impact, is important to us."

"One of the most valuable features is their distributed scan model for allotting engines to work together as a pool and handle multiple scans at once, across multiple environments. Automatic scanning distribution is a distinguishing feature of their toolset."

"The Auto-Remediate feature is good."

"Tenable is the leading product for vulnerability scanning."

"The most valuable features in Tenable SC are scanning and analysis."

"This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives."

"Compliance and vulnerability scans are most valuable. Compliance scan helps in validating how our teams are complying, and vulnerability scan helps in future-proofing. Its vulnerability detection is accurate."

"The scans are the most valuable aspect of this solution."

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Cons

"We'd like it to be faster."

"Sometimes, vulnerabilities remain unidentified even after setting up the rules."

"The product lacks sufficient customization options."

"They could improve the usability. For example, how you set things up, even though it's straightforward, it could be still be easier."

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

"It would be great if we could customize the rules to focus on critical issues."

"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 needs to improve its false positives."

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"The biggest issue I have with the solution is when I'm using the scanning it picks up the original DNS of that device. That means, before we image it and actually change the DNS to something within our company structure, it'll just be random numbers and letters and Tenable will stick to that DNS for a long time."

"Tenable SC could be improved with additional connectivity to external company postures and the capability of managing and sustaining agents in the systems directly without additional platforms in the middle."

"Its reporting can be improved. It is not easy to generate a scan report the way we want. The data is okay, but we can't easily change the template to make it look the way we want."

"We are facing some challenges related to our channel."

"It's important for Tenable to catch up on testing capabilities that are present in solutions like Qualys."

"At times we have had the typical bugs."

"The reporting needs a lot of work on the template."

"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Offers varying prices for different companies"

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

"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."

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

"The solution is affordable."

"The tool was fairly priced."

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"I use a local license to perform penetration testing and I'm pretty happy with everything when it comes to pricing and licensing."

"Though reasonable, the main competitor of Tenable SC, Rapid7, offers a more aggressive and better priced product."

"I would rate the pricing a nine out of ten, where ten is expensive. It is the most expensive tool my company is using."

"It is a bit expensive. Everything is included in the license."

"We're happy with the licensing cost and find it affordable."

"Tenable.sc is more expensive than its competitors."

"Compared to other companies or other products it could maybe be a little bit less, but the price is okay. I would say it's not very expensive."

"The tool costs around 15,000 Saudi riyals monthly."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

32%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 do you like most about Coverity?

The solution has improved our code quality and security very well.

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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 do you like most about Tenable SC?

The tool's dashboard and reporting capabilities match our company's needs since we are able to modify the basic view to create a new dashboard, and it works out very well for our needs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tenable SC?

Tenable Security Center is quite expensive, particularly for the CEE region, causing us to lose cases due to its pricing. The licensing requirements can be prohibitive for managed security service ...

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What needs improvement with Tenable SC?

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

Synopsys Static Analysis

Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter

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

Get a risk-based view of your IT, security and compliance posture so you can quickly identify, investigate and prioritize your most critical assets and vulnerabilities.

Managed on-premises and powered by Nessus technology, the Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) suite of products provides the industry’s most comprehensive vulnerability coverage with real-time continuous assessment of your network. It’s your complete end-to-end vulnerability management solution.

Tenable

Sample Customers

SAP, Mega International, Thales Alenia Space

IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific

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