Demandbase ran Veracode across 2,000 repositories and 500 developers to satisfy SOC 2 and ISO auditors. Between 95 and 99 percent of what Veracode reported was a false positive. The AppSec team couldn't justify blocking a build on findings they didn't trust, developers stopped reading the reports, and the backlog grew every quarter the tool stayed in place. Daphne Yang, who runs AppSec at Demandbase, put it this way:
“We had a scanner, but we weren't doing enough about it. Our CSO realized that if we didn't stop the bleeding, we simply couldn't catch up.”
After the switch, her team recorded 530 verified fixes in a single two-week period and cut mean time to response for critical vulnerabilities to under 48 hours. One year in, she defended the platform to Demandbase's General Counsel with a 10x improvement in security posture over the Veracode years.
Veracode scans compiled binaries, so before your team sees a finding, someone has to build the application to Veracode's packaging requirements, upload it, wait for prescan, pick the entry-point modules, and submit the policy scan. Veracode's own service documentation says 88 percent of static scans finish within an hour and 95 percent within four. One scan in twenty takes longer than that. If the build shipped without debug symbols, the platform reports the modules as missing information and the developer recompiles and uploads again.
Teams with large applications stop running the cycle on every build. They upload at release time, which means a flaw an engineer wrote in week one of a sprint surfaces in week six, after the code that depends on it has already merged.
Then comes triage. Because the engine has no view of your runtime, it reports every pattern match, and your team sorts the reachable findings from the rest by hand. At Demandbase that meant one to five real findings in every hundred. Nobody blocks a build on those odds, and once developers learn the reports are mostly noise, they stop opening them.
Veracode licenses by application profile, and each profile covers one deployable unit. Teams that split a monolith into services pay for each one. Procurement data puts overages at $2,000 to $5,000 per application above the contracted count, and Veracode sells Fix, its AI remediation feature, as a separate line item on top of the base license.
Your team connects Boost at the source control level with a service account and an API key. Nobody needs to package a binary, upload anything, or edit a pipeline. On connection, Boost maps your full repository footprint, including the shadow repos and archived projects you can't see today, and it picks up new repositories automatically the moment engineers create them. Your code stays in your environment.
One Head of AppSec connected his entire 700-repository footprint in a single afternoon, after his previous AppSec rollout had stalled for years.
An AppSec lead at a global travel platform migrated 6,000 repositories with a three-person team in under 90 days, developer training included.
Boost traces call paths with environmental context and suppresses findings in code nothing can reach. The policy engine lets your team write the rule that separates a theoretical flaw from a material one for your own applications, at a granularity Demandbase found in none of the other platforms they auditioned. Your team sees the vulnerabilities attackers can exploit, which gives you the confidence to move from notification mode to blocking mode.
When Boost finds a flaw, it writes the contextual fix and pushes it to the pull request. Your engineers review and merge it in the same place they review everything else, and your team pays nothing extra for the remediation. Demandbase called the inline PR comments the defining factor in their rollout: “The comments don't have a lot of fluff. The content itself is actionable and easy to find.”
Veracode starts working when a build reaches the platform. By then, an AI coding agent has already written the flaw, imported the dependency, and moved on to the next task. Boost governs the coding agents themselves on the developer's machine: it validates MCP servers, inventories the agents and IDE extensions in use, and feeds your secure coding standards into the agent's context before it generates a line.
You keep Veracode running. We connect Boost alongside it in Silent Mode, where the platform scans everything and alerts no one. Your team compares Boost's findings against Veracode's on your own code, tunes policies, and decides what enforcement should look like before a single developer sees a comment. Demandbase ran this way for several weeks and used the data to show developers what would have been blocked before turning enforcement on. When you're ready, you flip on enforcement and retire Veracode at your renewal date, with your compliance evidence continuous the whole way through.
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Book a call and we'll set up Silent Mode together. You'll see Boost's findings on your own repositories next to what Veracode reports today, so you can see, with your own data, why it makes sense to switch.
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