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Veracode vs. Black Duck
Choose Veracode Over Black Duck
Black Duck’s limited development processes, complex setup, and high false positive rates hinder workflows and delay secure application deployment…a development bottleneck.
Struggling with speed and efficiency
Unrivaled application security that delivers
| Capabilities | Veracode | Black Duck |
|---|---|---|
| Core functionality | Integrated Application Security Testing (AST) suite, including SAST, DAST, SCA, containers and IaC, all delivered on a unified, cloud-native platform. | Primarily focuses on Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with bolt-on tools for other AST types, often resulting in a fragmented user experience. |
| Cloud-native security | Secure cloud-native apps with tailored security scanning for containers, IaC, and dynamic environments, including API scanning. | Lacks native, deep cloud-native scanning and struggles to keep pace with modern, dynamic architectures. |
| Scanning & coverage | Comprehensive, fast scanning across all application types with integrated code analysis for virtually every language and framework. | Slower scan times, especially in large, complex enterprise environments, which delays releases and increases developer wait times. |
| False positive rates | Boosts the lowest false positive rate delivering <1.1 out of the box, reducing the need for expert tuning, and offers AI Fix to help scale and speed up flaw fixing. | Higher false positive rates which increase the workload on security teams and delays remediation efforts. |
| Software Supply Chain Defense | Package Firewall proactively blocks untrusted, malicious, or vulnerable open-source packages before they ever enter the development environment. | Traditional SCA primarily focuses on alerting on open-source risk after it’s already in the codebase, creating security debt and a reactive defense. |
| ASPM | Gain a centralized view of your platform to manage security risks and prioritize vulnerabilities, pinpoint root cause of security risk, and provide the Best Next ActionsTM for remediation. | Remediation advice can be too generic, requiring additional effort to tailor solutions. |
Unrivaled application security that delivers
Capabilities:
Core functionality
Veracode:
Integrated Application Security Testing (AST) suite, including SAST, DAST, SCA, containers and IaC, all delivered on a unified, cloud-native platform.
Black Duck:
Primarily focuses on Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with bolt-on tools for other AST types, often resulting in a fragmented user experience.
Capabilities:
Cloud-native security
Veracode:
Secure cloud-native apps with tailored security scanning for containers, IaC, and dynamic environments, including API scanning.
Black Duck:
Lacks native, deep cloud-native scanning and struggles to keep pace with modern, dynamic architectures.
Capabilities:
Scanning & coverage
Veracode:
Comprehensive, fast scanning across all application types with integrated code analysis for virtually every language and framework.
Black Duck:
Slower scan times, especially in large, complex enterprise environments, which delays releases and increases developer wait times.
Capabilities:
False positive rates
Veracode:
Boosts the lowest false positive rate out of the box, reducing the need for expert tuning, and offers AI Fix to help scale and speed up flaw fixing.
Black Duck:
Higher false positive rates which increase the workload on security teams and delays remediation efforts.
Capabilities:
Software Supply Chain Defense
Veracode:
Package Firewall proactively blocks untrusted, malicious, or vulnerable open-source packages before they ever enter the development environment.
Black Duck:
Traditional SCA primarily focuses on alerting on open-source risk after it’s already in the codebase, creating security debt and a reactive defense.
Capabilities:
ASPM
Veracode:
Gain a centralized view of your platform to manage security risks and prioritize vulnerabilities, pinpoint root cause of security risk, and provide the Best Next ActionsTM for remediation.
Black Duck:
Remediation advice can be too generic, requiring additional effort to tailor solutions.
Make the Move to Veracode
Discover why Veracode continues to set the standard in application security. For the 11th consecutive year, we’re proud to be named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing, showcasing our unwavering commitment to innovation and protecting your software.
Don’t just take our word for it
Prophecy
“Our AppSec program started with just two scans and one application. But the low false-positive rates and remediation guidance built into the tools has been so helpful that we’ve expanded our AppSec program to include a second application and a third testing type.”
