We performed a comparison between Mend.io and ShiftLeft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."The vulnerability analysis is the best aspect of the solution."
"The reporting capability gives us the option to generate an open-source license report in a single click, which gets all copyright and license information, including dependencies."
"Its ease of use and good results are the most valuable."
"What is very nice is that the product is very easy to set up. When you want to implement Mend.io, it just takes a few minutes to create your organization, create your products, and scan them. It's really convenient to have Mend scanning your products in less than one hour."
"The most valuable feature is the unified JAR to scan for all langs (wss-scanner jar)."
"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."
"With the fix suggestions feature, not only do you get the specific trace back to where the vulnerability is within your code, but you also get fix suggestions."
"Enables scanning/collecting third-party libraries and classifying license types. In this way we ensure our third-party software policy is followed."
"When it comes to ShiftLeft, the most valuable feature is definitely its ease of use and cost-effectiveness."
"We specifically use this solution within our CICD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and we would like to have a gate so that if the score falls below a certain value then we can block the pipeline from running."
"The UI is not that friendly and you need to learn how to navigate easily."
"We have ended our relationship with WhiteSource. We were using an agent that we built in the pipeline so that you can scan the projects during build time. But unfortunately, that agent didn't work at all. We have more than 500 projects, and it doubled or tripled the build time. For other projects, we had the failure of the builds without any known reason. It was not usable at all. We spent maybe one year working on the issues to try to make it work, but it didn't in the end. We should be able to integrate it with ID and Shift Left so that the developers are able to see the scan results without waiting for the build to fail."
"At times, the latency of getting items out of the findings after they're remediated is higher than it should be."
"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."
"WhiteSource Prioritize should be expanded to cover more than Java and JavaScript."
"WhiteSource needs improvement in the scanning of the containers and images with distinguishing the layers."
"Make the product available in a very stable way for other web browsers."
"Having support from senior management is crucial in making it mandatory for teams to collaborate with the security team throughout the development process."
Mend.io is ranked 5th in Application Security Tools with 29 reviews while ShiftLeft is ranked 26th in Application Security Tools with 1 review. Mend.io is rated 8.4, while ShiftLeft is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Mend.io writes "Easy to use, great for finding vulnerabilities, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ShiftLeft writes "Effectively in identify and fix bugs early in the development lifecycle". Mend.io is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Veracode, Snyk and Checkmarx One, whereas ShiftLeft is most compared with SonarQube and Black Duck.
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