Product Solutions Resources Partners Pricing Support Talk to an expert Get free trial Login GitLab vs Synopsys Decision Kit Summary Synopsys owns a portfolio of several scanning tools, including Coverity (SAST), Black Duck (SCA), Seeker (IAST), Defensics (Fuzzing), and recently acquired Tinfoil (DAST). BlackDuck does Software Composition Analysis (SCA) including dependency scanning, container scanning, and license management. Coverity for SAST includes spell-checker-like capability with an IDE plug-in that alerts the developer to vulnerable phrases as they code. It also has a dashboard that pulls in IAST from Seeker for a unified view. Coverity covers 20 programming languages. Our research indicates that Coverity costs around $12k USD per year for 5 users. Seeker for IAST employs an agent to test the application for vulnerabilities. It is used during functional testing so that security tests are done in the normal course of other testing. Seekers has an API to integrate with Dev IDEs. Seeker works with Java/all JVM languages. Seeker is only available on premise. Comparison to GitLab Although Synopsys can integrate with IDE’s and DevOps tools via the API, complete testing coverage requires multiple software licenses and a heavy integration and maintenance effort. GitLab Ultimate automatically includes a full suite of broad security scanning with every code commit. GitLab’s scan results are provided to the developer inline in their Merge Requests with no integration required. GitLab security scanning includes not only SAST but also DAST, Container and Dependency scanning, License Compliance scanning, and Secrets detection. All of these are included in GitLab Ultimate and integrated directly into the developer’s workflow. Finding vulnerabilities is only the beginning. Delivering those findings to the developer for immediate remediation is key to shifting left to reduce both cost and risk. Strengths and Weaknesses GitLab Synopsys Strengths • Licensing and management is much simpler as it is all included in a single tool • No special integration is required to surface vulnerabilities as part of development’s regular MR workflow • Widespread recognition as a security testing leader by Gartner and across the industry • Strong managed services offering for customers who are looking to outsource their security scanning • Polaris Software Integrity Platform provides a single console to manage all of Synopsys’ testing products • Good integration with IDEs and local developer environments Weaknesses • GitLab is much newer to the security testing space and does not yet have the feature depth or market recognition held by Synopsys • No managed services offering • Poor visualization of vulnerabilities and limited fix recommendations • Each kind of testing is a separate piece of software that must be licensed and integrated with the DevOps lifecycle separately • Professional services engagements are pushed by sales and can be costly for customers Feature Lineup GitLab Synopsys SAST ✅ ✅ DAST ✅ recently acquired a startup IAST ✅ SCA: Vulnerability Scanning ✅ ✅ SCA: Open Source Audit ✅ ✅ Fuzz Testing ✅ ✅ Feature Comparison FEATURES Static Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab allows easily running Static Application Security Testing (SAST) in CI/CD pipelines; checking for vulnerable source code or well known security bugs in the libraries that are included by the application. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. This feature is available as part of Auto DevOps to provide security-by-default. Learn more about Static Application Security Testing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE “With Gitlab 14.5 we’re introducing security scanning for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) configuration files.” Learn more about IaC security scanning Secret Detection SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab allows you to perform Secret Detection in CI/CD pipelines; checking for unintentionally committed secrets and credentials. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. This feature is available as part of Auto DevOps to provide security-by-default. Learn more about Secret Detection Dependency Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Protect your application from vulnerabilities that affect dynamic dependencies by automatically detecting well-known security bugs in your included libraries. Learn more about Dependency Scanning Dynamic Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Ensure you are not exposed to web application vulnerabilities like broken authentication, cross-site scripting, or SQL injection by dynamically investigating your running test applications in CI/CD pipelines. Learn more about application security for containers Interactive Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE IAST combines elements of static and dynamic application security testing methods to improve the overall quality of the results. IAST typically uses an agent to instrument the application to monitor library calls and more. GitLab does not yet offer this feature. Container Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Run a security scan to ensure the Docker images for your application do not have any known vulnerabilities in the environment where your code is shipped. Learn more about container scanning License Compliance SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Check that licenses of your dependencies are compatible with your application, and approve or deny them. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. Learn more about License Compliance On-demand DAST SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Identify vulnerabilities in your running application, independent of code changes or merge requests. Learn more about On-demand DAST Site and Scanner profiles for On-demand DAST scans SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Reuse configuration profiles quickly with on-demand DAST scans, instead of reconfiguring scans every time you need to run one. Mix different scan profiles with site profiles to quickly conduct scans that cover different areas or depths of your application and API. Learn more about application security for containers DAST Configuration UI SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Enabling DAST is now as simple as three clicks. This guided configuration experience makes it easier for non-CI experts to get started with GitLab DAST. The tool helps a user create a merge request to enable DAST scanning while leveraging best configuration practices like using the GitLab-managed DAST.gitlab-ci.yml template. Learn more about the DAST Configuration UI Scheduling On-demand DAST scans SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Set on-demand DAST scans to run on ad hoc or recurring schedules. Learn more about scheduling on-demand scans Twitter Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Why GitLab? Product Solutions Services DevOps tools Is it any good? Releases Pricing Get started Resources All resources All-Remote Blog Newsletter Events Webcasts Topics Training Docs Developer Portal Install Community Customers Contribute Community Programs Direction Technology Partners Channel Partners Open Source Partners GitLab for Open Source GitLab for Education GitLab for Startups Shop Community Forum Support Get help Contact Sales Contact Support Support options Status Customers Portal Company About What is GitLab? 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