Veracode Reviews

We use it to scan third-party libraries to check for vulnerabilities.

Our company relies on Veracode to prevent vulnerable code from going into production. 

And it reduces post-deployment bug fixes. Before Veracode, the application was deployed to the production server and there would be a lot of bugs and issues. Once we implemented the Veracode scan, the full deployment issues were drastically reduced. In a month we do 10 releases and we used to get five or six post-deployment issues. Now, we barely get one or two.

Veracode has also significantly saved us time, around 30 to 40 percent, and we can concentrate on new features instead of fixing the old ones.

We use the full code analysis and the recommendations from the Veracode report.

One concern is that scans take a long time to run. We scan at the end of the day because we know it will take a lot of time. We leave it to run and the report will be generated by the next day when we arrive. The scanning time could be reduced.

I have been using Veracode for the last three months.

It's very stable. I've never seen any downtime with Veracode.

We use it on-prem, so I'm not sure whether it can be scaled. It's just one endpoint that multiple people access.

We have two scanning stages. The first one uses SonarQube, which only does code analysis. It doesn't scan third-party libraries that we use in our code. Veracode is the second level of check. We work on a banking project. The bank trusts Veracode and they recommended Veracode to scan our products.

The initial deployment was pretty straightforward. It's on-prem so there was no deployment strategy to follow. It took one to two days to deploy and check everything. A team of three to four people worked on the deployment. It depends on the project's complexity as well. As a DevOps engineer, I support a lot of projects within our organization, and the deployment varies from project to project.

In my department, we handle six to eight projects and each one needs a Veracode scan before deployment. As a company, we have multiple locations and departments but only the DevOps team of eight people has access.

The way we work with Veracode is that we have integrated it with Jenkins. We upload the artifacts to the server, trigger the Jenkins job, and the Veracode scan is generated. We have set everything from the Jenkins pipeline. The scan is automated using Jenkins, which means there is no need for maintenance. If there are new steps implemented in the pipeline, there might be some overhead, but it doesn't need any maintenance. We just set the port and everything works fine.

Other than the scanning time, I would give it a solid eight out of 10.

We use Veracode to scan server applications, and we also use it for SCA functionality and to scan pipelines of our other projects.

The quality of our code is much better now with structured utils meant for improving various topics related to security. Those are being applied consistently to various modules of the application. It enforces a type of structure and code changes to support future transformation.

False positives are a problem. Sometimes the flow paths are not accurate and don't represent real attack vectors, but this happens with every application that performs static analysis of the code. But it's under control. The number of false positives is not so high that it is unmanageable on our side. Once they are identified, you can mark them as false positives, and they can be accepted by the security project lead. After that, life goes on, and those will no longer be reported.

The problem is the time that you spend analyzing a flow to be sure that it is a false positive. Every problem that is reported as a security vulnerability has to be treated with maximum care by the developers. It is good, in the end, when it's a false positive instead of having a real vulnerability.

Because we are working on a huge application with lots of dependent sub-projects, there are 9 to 20 data paths. We have to check all of the vectors from all of these paths. If we decide that an attack vector might be susceptible to that attack, we start fixing it. But for the others, the attack vector is not relevant.

There is always room for improvement in any product; it's not something related specifically to Veracode. But in the case of Veracode, maybe they could improve the scanner to reduce the number of false positive events so that they remain only with the valid data paths that represent real attack vectors. We understand that this is quite hard to determine by just scanning the code.

Also, the UI of Veracode could be improved to permit better visualization of the issues and the grouping of the issues, with better filtering.

We have been using Veracode for four years.

We have seen delays in results on the order of hours, but there haven't been any crashes of their scanner. The solution is quite reliable, and all of the results from the scanning can be easily tracked in terms of time frame. You can see how your scanning has evolved, and there are no deviations due to a bug in the scanner.

For small and medium-sized projects, it's quite scalable. You can use the sandbox scanner they provide, and it is fine. But for large applications, it is not scalable. We do manual uploads, and this is not scalable.

We haven't called their support because we know how to interpret the results provided by their platform and how to mitigate the vulnerabilities that they have reported.

However, we have exchanged several emails to discuss some technical details of the solution that we applied it to, and everything was straightforward. There are no complaints from my side regarding what they said. Everything went smoothly and quickly.

Positive

We have used certain plugins from Teamscale, which is also a static code analyzer, and it integrates with various plugins in Sonar. We have also used OWASP for static composition analysis, and we are still using the third-party application scanning from OWASP as a Maven plugin. We have also evaluated Black Duck.

Veracode was the first choice for doing static application security testing. It was ranked first a couple of times in the last few years, so it was a natural choice to go with the top product. Also, SAP has a partnership with Veracode for the application that they are selling. It was a win for us, SAP, and for Veracode.

It took us one day to get ready to use the solution. We built the image and copied it during the night to several machines. The following day, we were ready to put it into the container registry in Azure, and then it could be used. We had a huge procedure and scripting. It was not simple.

The team that did it had about six engineers involved.

It is an expensive solution, but it's the best solution available on the market. If you want something at the top, you have to pay a bit more than the average.

Regarding extra expenses, it depends on what you want to buy. They have certain bundles that provide support via a hotline system with customer service. They can provide you access to certain security laboratories. You can opt for several licenses to educate more developers to be responsible for the security of your applications. All of these change the initial cost.

Of course, if you add more things, you can benefit from a better price. It depends on your negotiation skills and the number of licenses you want to buy.

The price can vary from year to year, and prices usually go up. Maintenance for the servers that do the scanning takes money, as do CPU, power, and memory. And there are the reports that are kept in the history for checking and for ISO certification. Those costs build up during a year.

For example, we have to manually upload the application that we are scanning because it's quite big, and it takes one day to be scanned. That means their scanner runs for a day on this application, and then we get the results back. That means our application is heavily consuming resources of that cloud server. Those resources are no longer paid for directly by us. We delegate this job to Veracode to do it for us, and we pay for it. But we free up our servers locally and can do other jobs with them.

We aren't trying to reduce our costs. We are trying to improve the security and quality to be sure that we and our customers don't have security issues. At the end of the day, security is the most important part. With every new release and with every new year, we allocate more and more to these operations, to improve our overall security.

Not every such application is able to prevent everything from going to production, but several issues can be spotted via the scanning of the code and resolved, and they are valid. There are many others that can be detected with additional tooling from OWASP, Sonar, et cetera.

We are not using the SBOM functionality from Veracode. We use another tool to create the software bill of materials. That solution is also able to scan Docker images, and it also provides details about what is inside the layers of the Docker image file.

In terms of visibility into application status at every phase of development, it depends on how able you are to scan your application. For large applications, you have to do manual uploads, which is the case for us. We don't do manual uploads on every build, but we trigger it at certain times when we want to create releases for customers. That helps with our accuracy, but it doesn't represent the exact moment when there is a problem in the application. We still have to analyze the commits and history, track things, and match them with the new flaws that have been found in the latest report.

Veracode doesn't save us time. We have to spend a lot of time fixing security issues, especially those that impact lots of dependencies, dependent code, and sub-projects. But in the end, we can sleep well at night knowing that we have closed a possible security leak within the code, which is better for everybody. Even if there is no real problem at that moment and you don't see any probability of that vulnerability appearing in production, it is better to take some time to fix it, and then you feel better.

It has provided what we were looking for in such an application, meaning static application security testing functionality. That was what we were interested in.

It is a broad and integrated platform. It provides multiple test scenarios and has the ability to do CI/CD pipeline integration. It is used for application security and vulnerability assessment.

Veracode provides guidance to develop secure software. It is one of the valuable features.

On-premise implementation is not available.

I have been using the solution for ten years.

It is stable.

The tool is scalable.

The technical support is good.

Neutral

The product is deployed on the cloud. We have a multi-cloud environment.

The solution is expensive.

Veracode’s policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations is good. The product's false-positive rate is low. If the tool is used effectively, vulnerable codes do not go into protection.

The SBOM feature helps identify risks in all third-party software. It is quite easy to create a report using the SBOM feature. It is an important feature. The solution provides visibility into application status at every phase of development. We have not integrated it.

Veracode has a good effect on our organization’s ability to fix flaws. Veracode has helped our developers save time. Veracode has a good impact on our organization’s overall security posture. The solution is probably not worth the money. The developers are more confident while fixing vulnerabilities due to the solution’s low false-positive rate.

Overall, I rate the tool a six out of ten.

I have manually worked in CI/CD pipelines without Veracode. We could get automatic reports after integrating Veracode plugins into the build tool. The pipeline has become much more automatic by integrating the solution.

The best feature of Veracode is that we can do static and dynamic scans. Veracode performs software composition analysis, and we can use the solution to download different reports like the summarized report. Veracode’s interface is good.

Veracode should include the feature to run multiple scales at a time.

I have been using Veracode for one year.

Veracode is a stable solution, except on one occasion when I faced some issues. I rate Veracode a nine out of ten for stability.

Veracode has good scalability. In our organization, Veracode is used only by our team, which consists of seven members.

We have used the JFrog XRAY tool for SCA (software composition analysis).

Veracode’s initial setup was easy and straightforward.

Implementing Veracode doesn't take much time. It takes only a few hours to implement the solution. Veracode was deployed by a team consisting of two to three members.

I am into DevOps, and we have integrated Veracode into our DevOps pipeline.

I would recommend Veracode to other users.

Overall, I rate Veracode a nine out of ten.

We used it for static and dynamic testing to check if there were any vulnerabilities in the code. If there were any vulnerabilities, we would check the report downloaded from the Veracode portal and try to fix the code before deploying it.

Veracode helped me remove errors, and it didn't take a long time to fix any issue because I had an answer regarding where the code needed to be fixed. That feature helped us test our cases and get them deployed. It helped me fix vulnerabilities and any other errors before deployment to the applications.

The SAST and DAST scans—we used it both before code was deployed and after it was deployed—helped us run through the issues and keep track of their status. It was deployed in the pipelines, through Jenkins, and checked the logs in Kubernetes.

The solution also saved us time. I really liked the automatic scanning because there was no way to know where an issue was. Human tendency is to make mistakes, but Veracode helped us find the exact spot where an error was and change it. The reporting helped us do that in a short amount of time.

For our team, it had a very good impact. My manager used to suggest that before taking code to the next level, it was a really good idea to scan it.

I liked that I could easily find out where my errors were. Instead of going through the whole code and the scripts, it showed me where the errors were and gave me an idea of how to fix them.

The reporting was detailed, but there were some things that were missing. It showed us on which line an error was found, but it could have been more detailed.

Also, with upgrades, we had quite a difficult time tracking the reports, so there was some maintenance around that.

I used Veracode for 13 months.

I had a situation that was due to a slow network, and I couldn't get results within a specific time. Because of that, there was a lag in production; we couldn't deploy the code on time. There was a crash, and because of that, we couldn't meet our production deadline.

The downtime happened two or three times. I thought it was due to a network issue when it happened once, but then I came to understand that it was a maintenance issue.

Veracode is really not difficult or complex to understand. The whole concept is simple. It takes some time to get used to the tool, but it is a very simple tool to work with.

It was quite fast. Scanning my code took 25 to 30 minutes, which was quite good.

I have helped other companies implement Veracode Static Analysis in their IT environment. In our company, we need to scan many .NET applications using Veracode, and we could scan our software since it is a SaaS solution, after which we process the reports to improve the product.

The most valuable features of the solution are its extensive reporting capabilities and user-friendly interface.

There are certain shortcomings in Veracode's static analysis engine. I would improve Veracode's static analysis engine to make it capable of identifying vulnerabilities with low false positives.

The product is good, and if improvements are required, then such improvements should not be significant enough. There may be a slight scope to improve the product's integration capabilities. The product can also consider improving its support of different .NET versions and other programming languages, like Java.

I have been using Veracode Static Analysis for three or four months.

Our company faced some issues with the tool, but the support team solved these issues quite quickly. The stability of the tool is high. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. We can implement the tool in different DevOps environments and projects, because of which we can create groups of applications and apply different policies to application groups, making it an enterprise-level tool. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

The solution's technical support helped us solve different problems related to Veracode, including some of its use cases. Veracode's support helped our company get around a problem and how to set up the scan rules correctly when we had some unexpected errors during the scanning process. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Positive

I have experience with Snyk. I used Snyk a year ago. Snyk doesn't support the version of the .NET applications we use in our company, so we decided to move to Veracode.

The initial setup was easy since it is a SaaS solution and a well-documented product at the same time. In our company, we don't need to spin up a server to install something since we simply use the web interface and integrate the web interface with the DevOps environment.

On a scale of one to ten, where one is a hard setup and ten is an easy setup, I rate the initial setup phase an eight or nine.

The solution is deployed on the cloud. In our company, we use Microsoft Azure DevOps for our environment, but I don't know the environment in which Veracode gets used in our company. Veracode offers a web interface and API, so I don't know their cloud solutions.

The deployment is quite fast, but its overall quickness in terms of deployment depends on the number of applications you want to scan. If you want to scan one application, the deployment can be quickly done since we need to integrate Veracode into our DevOps environment.

The pricing of the product depends upon the number of codes or the number of applications.

I recommend those planning to use the solution check the system requirements and choose a solution that supports programming languages and .NET Framework versions that record scans.

I am not sure if it is one of the best solutions because I am not an expert in other solutions available in the market. Somehow, I personally feel it is one of the best tools in the market.

I rate the overall product a nine out of ten.

Veracode helps scan applications for security purposes to ensure they are safe before deployment. The solution is continuously monitoring the security of our infrastructure and workflows. About five people use the solution across our organization. 

Our security posture has improved since we implemented Veracode because our developers have a better understanding of the security risks that may arise due to some actions we take on various projects and tasks. We're more aware of how vulnerabilities can be introduced into our daily work. 

Veracode has reduced the amount we spend to remedy security risks by about 60 percent. Security testing is much easier than before. The time needed to address vulnerabilities can affect the workflows and lead to late delivery of our services across customers. It has helped us to mitigate risks by effectively monitoring workflows. The conditional scanning procedures we previously used have been replaced by modern systematic algorithms.

Veracode saves time and costs because it's flexible in terms of an organization's data requirements. It can provide data intelligence from various work platforms and guidance on the best practices for security mitigation so we can safeguard our data in various work processes.

The solution enables us to establish a strategic policy management infrastructure to monitor the performance of each application periodically and report on the security performance. The dynamic analysis gives us feedback from time to time and performance metrics inside the program interface. 

This platform is one of the most efficient and effective tools for upgrading applications to meet an organization's performance standards and policies. It helps us improve our development because sometimes the coding procedure might not reflect the latest threats. 

Veracode's most valuable aspect is continuous integration. It helps us integrate with other applications so that it can monitor the security process. By continuously scanning our applications, we can mitigate risks that may arise in some workflows. It streamlines compliance, policy management, and reporting on various data analytics. We use it daily to gain insight into our work processes.

The solution is built into our SecOps program. It offers modern policy management, essential support, and analytics features. It's efficient with fast and powerful risk-mitigation tools.

I think Veracode could integrate some advanced technologies to better address new threats as they arise. 

We have used Veracode for about a year.

Veracode has been a stable product. We've had some downtime, but it has performed well overall. 

I rate Veracode support a nine out of ten. Veracode's support team has always been helpful. When we contact them by phone or online chat, they respond quickly with a solution within the time frame established in our support contract.  

Positive

Deploying Veracode was straightforward, and we had help from the vendor's support team. Our deployment team has six members, and the whole process took about three weeks. 

After deployment, the product requires some maintenance. We sometimes face some networking challenges that require repairs, and we need to periodically update some tools.

Veracode is a good investment, and I can recommend it to anyone who is looking for the best security tester. I estimate that we saw a 60 percent ROI this year, and it continues.

Veracode is a little costly. It's cost-effective for a large enterprise, but it may be too expensive for small businesses. 

I rate Veracode an eight out of ten. I would recommend it to others who need to do testing for application performance or security and risk management. 

The most important purpose of this platform is code security. We are able to scan our code and find security flaws.

Veracode has saved us a lot of time because we have been able to reduce manual processes. We are able to do most things automatically with the platform. It has saved us between 30 and 40 percent of our time.

The main feature, and one of the most important, is the static code analysis. We are able to complete an analysis of the security flaws with this platform. It's very good at helping us find and fix flaws.

The sandbox environment is also one of the features we are using as well as integration with our CICD pipeline, which is very useful. The product is pretty easy to understand, which is quite good.

The policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations also helps us a lot.

It gives us visibility into application status at every phase. We have definitely seen an improvement in that regard.

I'm pretty new to this platform. I'm going with a trial right now and have been using it for about a month. We have spent most of our time analyzing the code.

It's a stable product.

It is also very scalable.

The support team could be more responsive, and the dependency of users on the support team is too high and should be reduced.

Neutral

This is the first such tool we are using.

The initial deployment was not very complex. It took us around 15 days because we were trying to understand the policies and many other things. Our team has 15 people and everyone was involved in making some decisions regarding the solution.

We have only needed help with the product itself. That's what we have reached out to their team for. But there hasn't been any maintenance of the product for us.

The pricing is a bit high. Although we are in a trial phase, if we are going to make the decision to purchase the software, the pricing is going to be high for us.

We are able to justify the false positives because security flaws are one of the biggest things that Veracode's features help us with.

Overall, the product is good. It has made a very good impression. There are some flaws, as I have mentioned, but overall it looks very good, with the features I've mentioned. The impact on our security has been good. The main challenge for us will be the pricing, but if we ignore that factor, the impact has been very good and we would definitely implement Veracode.

I would suggest having a look at Veracode. Go for a trial of the system to see if Veracode is something that can help solve your problems. Pricing should be ignored because there are definitely some very specific features that help a lot.