We performed a comparison between Fortify Static Code Analyzer and Mend.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veracode, OpenText, JetBrains and others in Static Code Analysis."The reference provided for each issue is extremely helpful."
"It's helped us free up staff time."
"The Software Security Center, which is often overlooked, stands out as the most effective feature."
"Its flexibility is most valuable. It is such a flexible tool. It can be implemented in a number of ways. It can do anything you want it to do. It can be fully automated within a DevOps pipeline. It can also be used in an ad hoc, special test case scenario and anywhere in between."
"Fortify Static Code Analyzer tells us if there are any security leaks or not. If there are, then it's notifying us and does not allow us to pass the DevOps pipeline. If it is finds everything's perfect, as per our given guidelines, then it is allowing us to go ahead and start it, and we are able to deploy it."
"The integration Subset core integration, using Jenkins is one of the good features."
"Automating the Jenkins plugins and the build title is a big plus."
"I like Fortify Software Security Center or Fortify SSC. This tool is installed on each developer's machine, but Fortify Software Security Center combines everything. We can meet there as security professionals and developers. The developers scan their code and publish the results there. We can then look at them from a security perspective and see whether they fixed the issues. We can agree on whether something is a false positive and make decisions."
"WhiteSource is unique in the scanning of open-source licenses. Additionally, the vulnerabilities aspect of the solution is a benefit. We don't use WhiteSource in the whole organization, but we use it for some projects. There we receive a sense of the vulnerabilities of the open-source components, which improves our security work. The reports are automated which is useful."
"The solution boasts a broad range of features and covers much of what an ideal SCA tool should."
"Mend has reduced our open-source software vulnerabilities and helped us remediate issues quickly. My company's policy is to ensure that vulnerabilities are fixed before it gets to production."
"The results and the dashboard they provide are good."
"We set the solution up and enabled it and we had everything running pretty quickly."
"We find licenses together with WhiteSource which are associated with a certain library, then we get a classification of the license. This is with respect to criticality and vulnerability, so we could take action and improve some things, or replace a third-party library which seems to be too risky for us to use on legal grounds."
"The most valuable feature is the unified JAR to scan for all langs (wss-scanner jar)."
"The best feature is that the Mend R&D team does their due diligence for all the vulnerabilities. In case they observe any important or critical vulnerabilities, such as the Log4j-related vulnerability, we usually get a dedicated email from our R&D team saying that this particular vulnerability has been exploited in the world, and we should definitely check our project for this and take corrective actions."
"It can be tricky if you want to exclude some files from scanning. For instance, if you do not want to scan and push testing files to Fortify Software Security Center, that is tricky with some IDEs, such as IntelliJ. We found that there is an Exclude feature that is not working. We reported that to them for future fixing. It needs some work on the plugins to make them consistent across IDEs and make them easier."
"The troubleshooting capabilities of this solution could be improved. This would reduce the number of cases that users have to submit."
"The pricing is a bit high."
"The price can be improved."
"Their licensing is expensive."
"Fortify Static Code Analyzer is a good solution, but sometimes we receive false positives. If they could reduce the number of false positives it would be good."
"Fortify Static Code Analyzer has a bit of a learning curve, and I don't find it particularly helpful in narrowing down the vulnerabilities we should prioritize."
"The generation of false positives should be reduced."
"It would be good if it can do dynamic code analysis. It is not necessarily in that space, but it can do more because we have too many tools. Their partner relationship support is a little bit confusing. They haven't really streamlined the support process when we buy through a reseller. They should improve their process."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I would like to have an additional compliance pack. Currently, it does not have anything for the CIS framework or the NIST framework. If we directly run a scan, and it is under the CIS framework, we can directly tell the auditor that this product is now CIS compliant."
"The dashboard UI and UX are problematic."
"The UI is not that friendly and you need to learn how to navigate easily."
"Needs better ACL and more role definitions. This product could be used by large organisations and it definitely needs a better role/action model."
"Make the product available in a very stable way for other web browsers."
"WhiteSource needs improvement in the scanning of the containers and images with distinguishing the layers."
Fortify Static Code Analyzer is ranked 2nd in Static Code Analysis with 12 reviews while Mend.io is ranked 4th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 29 reviews. Fortify Static Code Analyzer is rated 8.6, while Mend.io is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortify Static Code Analyzer writes "Seamless to integrate and identify vulnerabilities and frees up staff time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mend.io writes "Easy to use, great for finding vulnerabilities, and simple to set up". Fortify Static Code Analyzer is most compared with Black Duck, Snyk, Sonatype Lifecycle, Veracode and JFrog Xray, whereas Mend.io is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Snyk, Checkmarx and FOSSA.
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