Veracode Reviews

We use Veracode as a vulnerability scanning tool, which checks our code base and has certain rules and policies that can be updated as per the company policies; it checks our code, finds any vulnerable APIs or libraries, analyzes them, and gives us a report, and then we work on that so that we will use the latest, all non-vulnerable libraries to make the application more secure. 

Veracode provides visibility into application status at every phase of development through static analysis. Veracode definitely affects my DevSecOps processes because without this tool it would be difficult for developers or testers to find vulnerabilities, as in a large-scale production system there are hundreds of thousands of APIs and libraries used, and it's not possible for any individual to check all of them. 

This tool helps to get all the reports, outlining the APIs or libraries with severe vulnerabilities, which need to be fixed, so that is definitely helpful. Veracode positively impacts my ability to fix flaws since it not only gives us the version information but is also integrated with the artifact repository, helping us find all versions. It provides a list of vulnerable versions we are using and recommends upgrading to the non-vulnerable version. 

Veracode helps save time for my developers on the security vulnerability finding. Almost all users in my organization utilize Veracode, numbering in the thousands.

Veracode has a significant impact on my security posture. Without these tools, we would not know which libraries are vulnerable or what kind of attacks might occur, so at least from a security point of view, we can be assured we are using all non-vulnerable versions, providing a level of safety from the project team's perspective. 

The best features in Veracode include static analysis and the early detection of vulnerable libraries; it integrates with tools such as Jenkins.

The policy reporting does assist us with compliance. There are certain rules where fixing vulnerabilities is part of the policy. We have guidelines and we need to resolve them before putting something into a higher environment. It helps with that.

Veracode provides visibility into application status at every phase of development, including static analysis. Without this tool it will be difficult for the developers or the testers in a large-scale production system go through hundreds or thousands of APIs and libraries. It helps us quickly go through and understand what needs to be fixed. It sees everything, finds all versions, and gives us a list of all of the vulnerabilities and which versions have vulnerabilities. 

Improvements can be made to Veracode, particularly in terms of process. If it could be integrated directly with code repositories such as Bitbucket or GitHub, without the need to create a pipeline to upload and decode code, it would simplify the code scan process significantly.

I noticed there is no integration with Bamboo.

I have worked in a project for about five years, and while we do not exactly work in Veracode, we have integrated Veracode with our applications so that it will do all the analysis and give us reports.

Veracode is stable for us.

I am not sure about the scalability of Veracode or where they are hosting their servers.

I have never needed to raise a ticket and work with Veracode experts.

I have used both Veracode and Checkmarx before choosing Veracode for one of my projects; Veracode is very established and widely used, while Checkmarx is relatively newer and has a smaller user base, though both have their place in the market.

I am not sure how Veracode is managed in terms of deployment, as we use API keys for connection.

The pricing is okay.

I would suggest some static analysis tools should be in place. Either Veracode or CheckMarx. If there's a security gap, you'll never know the cost or effect. You need early detection in place to do all of that fixing. 

I would suggest that a static analysis tool should be in place, either Veracode or Checkmarx, as both help in the SDLC cycle with early detection of security gaps, which is crucial to avoid costly effects later on; so I would say this is a must-do to facilitate early detection and fixing before production.

I'm a Veracode customer.

From an organizational perspective, there is a separate team managing Veracode, and they might find that access valuable. The fact that Veracode doesn't scan source code (only binary code) does not concern me, as that decision is made at the organizational level, and I trust that they are managing all required features. 

I would recommend Veracode to other users. It definitely helps us detect vulnerabilities in code. 

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

My usual use case for Veracode involves integrating automatic scans for each of our pipelines, which starts every month automatically without my intervention. I review the results, and if there are any changes, such as new issues, flaws, or outdated components, I address this task with our developers.

Veracode has improved my organization's ability to fix flaws because before Veracode, we did not even know about issues from the security side. Application security is relatively new in our company. The fact that we started to remediate these issues is a good step towards security, which has positively impacted us.

Veracode's ability to prevent vulnerable code from going into production is excellent. I implemented it as a pipeline into our CI/CD, and if there are vulnerabilities above our level, such as high or very high severities, the pipeline will not build. Developers can contact security personnel if they need clarification.

Veracode has helped developers save approximately 15%-20% of time. Our security posture has improved as expected. 

We do not have many Veracode features yet. We are going to discuss expanding the subscription next year. Currently, Static Analysis is really good at scanning our code for vulnerabilities. Software Composition Analysis is also required for the upcoming rights from the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which is quite useful, and I am using them both. Both features are really important for us since we're using only Veracode.

The areas of Veracode that I would want to see improved or enhanced in the future are primarily related to user interface experience. I noticed they have started working on it as the main page has a new design, but other pages appear somewhat old and not intuitive. The interface needs to be more user-friendly, but otherwise, everything is acceptable.

I have been working with Veracode for approximately a year and a half.

Every time I wanted to work with Veracode, it worked, so there are no downsides. It was available every time.

Regarding scalability, Veracode is really good for our needs. You need many subscriptions because you need to include every developer who produces code. Implementing these features into our normal CI/CD was good, so I can say that scalability is really good.

I have communicated with the technical support of Veracode a couple of times, and this was a really great experience because these professionals know their material. They understood us immediately and helped us with our problems within half an hour. It was incredible. I would rate them a ten out of ten.

Positive

We did not use a different solution before Veracode. Veracode is our first solution.

I did not work directly with competing solutions similar to Veracode, but I attended several meetings with different companies to explore similar tools. They did not provide anything better than Veracode, and since I had already implemented Veracode in our CI/CD, there was no need to change the solution. I only saw Checkmarx as a competing solution. Though I did not try it myself, from what they showed me, it appeared quite similar but was not better than Veracode.

Without the documentation, the deployment and initial setup is complex. I tell my developers who are interested in Veracode that with this documentation, everything is possible because it is really thorough and helpful. At first, it was somewhat complicated, but with the documentation and time, it became a really good experience. After that, it became very easy and quick.

Since the Cyber Resilience Act is in motion, we need to provide static analysis and dynamic analysis, which we do not have right now. We must do it, and Veracode is a great tool for this purpose. We cannot sell our products without complying with this act, so Veracode is helping us achieve this.

When I joined the company, I was given Veracode. The decisions were made before I joined the organization. They had just bought it and needed a specialist for this, and I was the specialist.

I am working with the latest version of the features. Since starting with Veracode, I would rate the benefits as six or seven out of ten. It could be better if we had more high severity issues, but fortunately, we do not. It is a good sign that developers who are not in cybersecurity understand its value.

Regarding the solution's policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations, I am using standard policies. I rated it five out of ten because we have not used it properly yet.

Veracode provides visibility into application status at development phases. We tried IDE scans for the developer stage of products, but it was not fully compatible with our IDE. It works in CI/CD as mentioned.

We do not currently have the Veracode Fix feature that produces AI-generated fixes. The fact that Veracode does not scan source code, only binary code, does not concern us as we have other tools for that purpose.

I would rate Veracode an eight out of ten.

My main use case for Veracode is related to code scanning as well as third-party library scanning. In addition to my main use case with Veracode, I also used it for penetration testing.

The best features Veracode offers in my experience include product discovery, specifically library discoveries as well as remediation timelines, pull requests, and others. I also explored sandboxes.

The Remediation Timelines feature helps us in our workflow by ensuring we abide by certain compliance regulations, and it helped us prioritize high or critical vulnerabilities beforehand so that we pass the compliance checks.

For Library Discovery with Veracode, it was effective in terms of finding transitive dependencies, which allowed us to identify what libraries we need to update and recognize both direct and indirect vulnerabilities.

Veracode has positively impacted our organization by giving us a good chance to focus on development as we don't need to focus as much on compliance-related matters after we have ensured this level of security on the security posture management for our application. Veracode helped us focus on development by reducing our manual work, and the suggestions for fixes were valuable.

Veracode could be improved in terms of the UI platform as it could be more seamless, and if they allow different sessions in different browsers at the same time or in different tabs that would help tremendously. I feel Veracode doesn't need any additional improvements beyond what we have discussed.

I have used Veracode for about two years in my previous organization.

Veracode is stable for me with no issues with uptime or reliability that I have experienced.

Veracode handles growth and increased usage effectively.

The customer support with Veracode is good, as I have interacted with their support team. I would rate the customer support of Veracode an eight on a scale of one to ten.

Positive

Before using Veracode, we used SonarQube.

We did see a return on investment with Veracode, as we segregated our remediation efforts, which reduced our time to delivery as well as the number of engineers needed to help us in delivering a secure solution.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Veracode is that it is fairly moderate.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing Veracode; we directly moved to Veracode.

I would advise others looking into using Veracode to go for code scanning as well as library scans, and I would recommend adopting it. I would rate this review an eight out of ten.

The challenge was not about implementing Veracode, but rather about the way we scan and the product that we have right now is based on different components, and Veracode was not able to support it. Ultimately, we are moving out of Veracode.

We are looking at Black Duck and Polaris.

The product was great. We had no issues with Java-related matters, but we want everything across the board to be scanned.

There were many issues when we were uploading code. The size restrictions that you enforce, the way the results are presented, and the difficulty in finding details for C and C++ all forced us to move off of it.

It was less than a year.

I wouldn't call it, because that is a different thing and represents the individual strategy of each company. So, I do not want to comment on that particular aspect.

We have already used Veracode before.

We were using the cloud version. We are using multiple clouds, not for Veracode specifically, but in general, we are using multiple clouds. We had some issues with the code.

We were able to integrate it with our CI/CD engine. But I am not very sure about the other third-party integrations.

We are looking at Black Duck and Polaris.

We have used Veracode only for third-party libraries until now. We have automated that and have onboarded the Dev team to directly scan from their pipeline. We have integrated the CI/CD in that way. We try to see whether the third-party libraries they have been using are safe versions, and if not, we are able to guide them along. For static scan, we primarily use Fortify. With Veracode, I do not have much experience because Fortify is our main tool. 

We are the security personnel. We give proper guidance to the development team and use Veracode whenever scans are in queue or stuck, helping to provide clarity on findings. We have guided the development team with the tool so that, as security auditors, we do not have to do that. We have given guidance to the development team since every release needs code without vulnerable dependencies or vulnerable code. We have guided them in a way that they can access such tools, where they can see the report, and where vulnerable code is present.

Veracode's policy reporting for ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations is satisfactory. Veracode provides visibility into application status at every phase of development.

Veracode has impacted our overall security posture because we are from a security background. Every week, we review the dashboards of open findings. We use both Veracode and Fortify findings, as we are using two separate tools - one for SAST and one for dependency-related issues. When we highlight these in our meetings every day, it gives us a picture of the timeline needed to fix the code. We are using that feature regularly, and it helps significantly.

The product could be improved in its reporting. The scanning process could be more streamlined as it has certain limitations when performing manual scans. It has some checks when the content is in ZIP format or other formats, which takes two or three more steps than Fortify does. From a technical point of view, I may not be the best person to answer that since I haven't used it regularly. Other than the scanning process, I think it is acceptable.

I have been using Veracode for a couple of years.

I would rate its stability as a six out of ten based on my personal opinion.

It is scalable. I do not face any issues with the product's scalability.

The technical support by Veracode is good because we have encountered problems before, and the team supported us effectively. For technical support, it deserves a rating of eight out of ten.

Positive

It is somewhat complex compared to Fortify. As a Fortify user for almost five years, I find Veracode complex, but others in my team who have used it for eight to nine years don't find such issues. When we were doing manual scans before CI/CD integration, it was easier.

It took approximately four to five months to onboard the solution because it was new to developers as well. There was a certain process to be followed to get access and integrate it into the CI/CD tools. We had to explain the report format to them, showing where they could find vulnerabilities and how they could fix the code, including finding safer versions of libraries and dependencies. This took almost half of 2023, and now in 2025, they do not need our help except for technical problems when there are numerous scans in the pipeline.

The pricing is reasonable compared to other tools.

I haven't used the Veracode Fix feature that produces AI-generated fixes. 

The fact that Veracode doesn't scan source code, only binary code, is not a concern because we have certain projects that work with this approach. The AI functionality could be innovative, though I haven't experienced it yet. Regarding the breadth of Veracode's end-to-end testing versus competing solutions, I would rate it as eight out of ten.

Overall, I would rate Veracode a seven out of ten.

We have now switched to another solution but our use case was SAST.

Veracode was crucial to our shift-left security strategy, as we implemented it into our transformation projects. We defined internal strategies to use Veracode in the earlier stages of application development. Each sprint received application code, and we consistently scanned it using Veracode, reducing many security flaws early in development. This proactive approach helped developers to address any remaining flaws. Additionally, we defined a Jira workflow specifically for SAST bugs to track and manage security issues effectively.

Veracode helped with policy compliance. We have proposed Veracode for SAST to our stakeholder in the banking plarform. They have specific security policies that the code needs to accommodate. We have two sets of policies defined: one is the default policy in Veracode, and the other is provided by stakeholders from the chief security team, who have imported policies relevant to the banking platform. The default policy is not sufficient to ensure the code is secure, so stakeholders provided more security policies relevant to their domain and the platform.

Our actual application code was a CAT-A application, meaning it had to pass SAST and DAST testing for deployment into production. This was a mandatory check from our perspective to get the code deployed into production. We have internal strategies to implement Veracode in different phases of our application deployment. Before going into production, we do SAST testing in lower environments and then one round of testing in higher environments based on bug-fixing code. We are cautious about deploying directly into production after completing security testing in Veracode because we continually receive bug-fixing code from different applications. So, we defined our strategy this way.

Veracode provided visibility into application status at every phase of development, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, composition, and penetration.

Most of the fixes relate to password encryption or some kind of SQL injections. If there are any security flaws verified against the policies defined by our stakeholders, as well as Veracode's, and if they pose a potential risk of breaches, Veracode provides excellent recommendations for fixing those security flaws. This detail helps us address the issues efficiently, as it specifies where fixes need to be applied and the implications of ignoring them. The options for developers to provide false positive comments or justification through Jira tickets if a fix cannot be implemented for a particular release are also very useful. These features in Veracode significantly aid developers in addressing security flaws in the code.

Because scanning takes a long time for uploading any kind of large application code, I would estimate we saved around 30% to 40%. After implementing our strategy for SAST within our platform, we started doing SAST scanning in Veracode for every sprint. This frequency is crucial because, without Veracode, it could be very difficult to implement such a strategy in the earliest stages of application development.

Veracode had a positive impact on our security posture. 

The good thing about Veracode is that when one scans the respective application code, all the people who are part of the transformation project can update their reviews. If there are any security flaws or vulnerabilities identified, they are able to provide sufficient justification or details about the security flaws. This helps developers fix the respective flaws in the application code, which we appreciated because it made it very easy for us to assist with fixing the application code from the development perspective.

Its cost and the long scanning times for large applications are the areas for improvement. We had integrated Veracode with other tools in the DevOps pipeline, such as Ansible and Jenkins. However, we faced a challenge, so we implemented Veracode offline, out of the DevOps pipeline. We had issues with scanning large applications. Scanning took a lot of time, so we kept it outside the DevOps pipeline to avoid delaying deployments. We defined different strategies to utilize Veracode for analyzing static-related security bugs in application code.

I would rate it a seven out of ten for stability. If the Veracode server is down, we experience many issues during the scan, and sometimes the scan gets interrupted, requiring us to restart it.

For scalability, I would rate it a nine. It has a good capacity to scale effectively.

We had 15 to 20 licenses.

We never used Veracode support. We only worked with the stakeholders provided by the customer. They were supportive. 

The responsiveness and quality of documentation from Veracode are notable compared to other tools we are currently using, where we often struggle to find the same level of support.

Positive

It was easy.

I estimate we saved around 60% to 70% of our resources with Veracode.

Pricing-wise, I find it a bit expensive because it's based on the number of users requesting access to Veracode.

Lower budget products may struggle to incorporate all of Veracode's capabilities into their processes.

We were looking for a tool in the market that could provide support for SAST or static analysis security testing. We wanted to implement it in the earlier phases of our transformation project. We looked into the analysis of different tools in the market, and then we decided that Veracode was the right tool at the time to provide more support for the SAST testing in our transformation project.

Veracode stands out when compared to other solutions, especially regarding predefined security policies and their support for implementing the DevSecOps pipeline.

I do not have concerns about Veracode not scanning source code, only binary code. In previous scans of the same code with different tools, Veracode has identified more security flaws, so I don't worry about the scanning process. It effectively spots the security flaws.

I would recommend Veracode to other users, but you must consider the cost aspect. If an organization has sufficient funds for spending on this SAST tool, I would still strongly recommend it because of the extensive documentation and defined policies. 

Veracode allows for customized policies based on domain and platform, which is beneficial for collaboration among multiple users and teams. 

I would rate Veracode an eight out of ten. Implementing Veracode has been challenging in the DevOps pipeline due to long durations, which can delay production deployments. Hence, we established a separate strategy solely for SAST scanning, leading to my rating of eight.

It helps our organization's ability to fix flaws very quickly. It helps in that aspect. We have fixes, remediation guidance to help fix issues. Veracode provides a training platform for developers to ensure they have awareness and knowledge, so they have a place to get information. It helps our developers save time, but we don't have many metrics on that.

When it's used, it's helpful. That's about making people use it and requiring it to be used. It has been used at times, and we could get issues resolved and things fixed. It was quite advantageous for some time. I'm in a different part of the team now, and I've seen that since I've left, the numbers have gone the other way. Somebody was showing me how they just got big old backlogs of things, and they're not even able to keep up with issues. That's when they're working with Code Fix. They try to get them to use Veracode Fix, which will speed up things for development, so the security team's support team will not be backlogged.

It gives notifications to prevent vulnerable code from going into production. It doesn't stop anything from going into production, but it notifies you. You can then consider not promoting that code. The values and assessments it provides can be introduced in the different areas in our development cycle and pipeline.

Regarding visibility into application status in every phase of development, such as static analysis, dynamic analysis software, and SAST, I would say that's not possible when considering every phase of development, such as requirements and architecture, as it's not part of that. However, from where it is engaged in the software development lifecycle standpoint, it provides that information.

The most valuable features include the total developer experience, along with regulator exposure and DevOps pipeline. It encompasses everything as an enterprise solution. In an enterprise, you want developers to be able to do things easily. You want to be able to monitor development in IDEs and the environment states of working pipelines. You want to integrate DevOps pipelines that do scan assessments and evaluation, and promotion to later stages in the pipeline and testing cycles. You still want your security team to be able to access data or pull information for evaluations or regulatory compliance, and report back to corporate compliance.

For the teams that use it, it does affect the time to remediate security flaws. It fixes issues directly in the IDE while you're doing it.

Many teams now have IDE plug-ins and the ability to generate fixes in the code. It's becoming more of a standard thing. They focus on creating security fixes and tools. A nice addition would be if it could be extended for scenarios with custom cleansers.

I've used Veracode for a while now.

Their support is pretty good.

Positive

I don't know why they switched, but it was the decision made before I joined the company, and then the pandemic hit. It was delayed, but it had already been paid for, so eventually the switch happened.

They did evaluate other options before choosing Veracode. I'm not familiar with the process they used, but they absolutely did evaluate. I've seen documentation, and Checkmarx was on that list as well.

From a policy standpoint, industry policy and related matters, you have to adjust and adapt things for systems and solutions. It's capable, but another part of the company is responsible for some of that. We may not necessarily get feedback, so with the ability to use it effectively, I don't think we've matured as an organization to take advantage of it effectively.

Veracode isn't important to the organization's shift-left security strategy itself. It's a tool. You have the strategy, you set the strategy, and you find a solution that will adhere to and work with the strategy. That's generally the goal. Veracode works well with the strategy once you decide and define it. Strategy is set, and then you select the tool.

Veracode is a very good tool, especially from a compliance standpoint. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

Static scanning is one component of Veracode. That feature we use heavily to scan all the custom code we write weekly. We use another component called software composition analysis to scan all of our open-source packages. These are the two primary use cases that we have for Veracode.

It flags any security flaws or bad practices. Veracode has its own database for many vulnerabilities identified on the SCA side. They use a tool called SourceClear, which validates vulnerabilities in any of these packages. The scanner itself is pretty good at identifying some of the flaws in either the code or the open-source packages.

Our organization is more secure than without Veracode. It has improved our security posture because we're running it. It's hard to gauge what that would be without it because we haven't had any security issues since I joined the company. 

Veracode is very good at ensuring compliance with industry standards. It has helped us fix flaws. We know what's there, and there's generally a decent explanation for fixing each flaw. It's a quicker time to market. It's easy to figure out the problem and solve it so that we don't have exposed vulnerabilities in the market. 

It has helped developers save time. We generally resolve all our flaws within seven to 20 business days after they are identified. Veracode is crucial to our shift-left strategy. We have automated scans, so we scan all our code every weekend. Today is one of those days, so it's usually the time when we come in, see there's a new problem, and immediately start working on it.

Static scanning and software composition analysis are very helpful. My colleagues and I don't need to be experts on all of those ancillary things, so we can focus more on the business deliverables.

They have a pretty good tool that allows me to run scans of my local integrated development environment. I can find a lot of those flaws a lot sooner than I would if I had to wait for these cloud-based scans. They've come out with some sort of automated fix feature. I haven't used it, but they gave us a demo of it, and that one looks promising. I don't know if it's ready for prime time yet. 

The usability isn't good in Veracode. Sometimes, it will show a problem, but it's difficult to go into their tool and figure out where it is. You primarily use a web browser to access their system. It requires a lot of clicks. The static analysis is a separate part of their system from the SCA, so that's a bit difficult. They haven't fully integrated that. It's difficult for the consumer.

We have used Veracode for about five years. 

Veracode's stability is 50-50. They deploy new versions of their engine. Recently, the new version identified flaws in the code that were six months to a year old.  

Veracode seems to scale pretty well. We scan 60 to 70 applications every weekend without any problems. 

I rate Veracode's support engineers eight and their frontline support four. Their engineers are typically good and helpful. If I open a tech support ticket, I usually get a Veracode engineer. Those guys are good. I would rate their other support people poorly. 

Neutral

Veracode is straightforward to deploy. It's a general automated dev ops strategy. It's a responsibility shared among 20 to 30 people.

Veracode is a decent value, depending on what you're trying to achieve. It's pretty good for security flaws.

I rate Veracode six out of 10. I would recommend Veracode to others. The scanner is best in class, but the rest, not so much.