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Bytesafe
What Is Bytesafe?
Bytesafe allows enterprises to increase their software supply chain security posture with automated best practices - and a unified workflow for security and developer teams. The Dependency Firewall enables enterprises to enforce open source usage policies and avoid threats by effectively blocking open source vulnerabilities and non-compliant licenses.
Who Uses Bytesafe?
Designed for security and developer teams - with a unified workflow for automated open source security.
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Reviews of Bytesafe
Bytesafe: My Personal Pros and Cons Review
Pros:
ByteSafe's ease of use, as well as its secure encryption capabilities, appealed to me. I also liked how easy it was to manage user access and how many integrations were available. Finally, I found the customer support team to be extremely helpful and responsive.
Cons:
The lack of customization options was the least liked feature of ByteSafe. We discovered that we were limited in our ability to customize our system, and we were forced to rely on third-party plugins to obtain the features we desired. Furthermore, the user interface was not very intuitive and required some getting used to.
Easy to setup and instant feeling of ease
Comments: Wonderful!
Pros:
The freeze functionality of repositories allows me as a CTO to feel more secure that no packages will accidentally slip through, or be targeted in a package / version attack.
Cons:
Would like to get an email when a frozen repository has denied a fetch of a package, to review it and easily add it to allowed packages.
Bitfront Response
2 years ago
Hi Anton, Thank you for your review, we really appreciate it! We especially love hearing about workflow enhancement - We've added your feature request as #1594 and are going to look into it. All the best, Niclas & Team Bytesafe
It can be used as a vulnerability scanner for Maven project, but has some flaws
Comments: Bytesafe is used in vulnerability scanning. It can be used, but not that easily as expected (see above "cons").
Pros:
Email notifications about vulnerabilities. Ease in creation of firewalls with maven.
Cons:
Currently maven projects produces a lot of "noise" issues, that have to checked manually.I cannot decide what is actual vulnerability threat and what is not.Also lately I get a lot of "Received fatal alert: handshake_failure" errors just for now reason, when using bytesafe in maven.
Bitfront Response
2 years ago
Hi Alexander, Thank you for your review, we really appreciate it! We would love to understand a bit more about your problems with the handshake failures and would really appreciate it if you could supply us with more details on: [email protected] so we can figure out what's going on and what we can do about it. All the best, Niclas & Team Bytesafe
Amazing for private packages
Pros:
The fact that you can create private NPM packages, instead of paying massive fees at NPM or Github is absolutely amazing. And the security aspect of it all just seals the deal.
Cons:
There aren't really any documentation on how to use the platform or their product, you just kind of gotta find your own way around it.
Bitfront Response
2 years ago
Hi Hannes, Thank you for your review and we appreciate that you like our service. We put a lot of effort into making Bytesafe quick and easy to use. And whenever you need more information you can visit the docs available at https://docs.bytesafe.dev. A while ago we added Discover Bytesafe on the Home screen to make information more accessible - feel free to check it out. If you want to dig deeper, a great source is our series of blog posts available at https://bytesafe.dev/posts. Have other questions? Drop us a message at [email protected] and we will help you out. Keep your dependencies secure! All the best, Daniel & Team Bytesafe
Great tool for managing packages!
Pros:
Easy to get a good overview of vulnerabilities in projects! Great and very fast support!
Cons:
Would be nice to have more features that could help resolve issues in packages.
Bitfront Response
2 years ago
Hi Maria, Thank you for your review and we appreciate that you like Bytesafe! We put a lot of effort into making Bytesafe quick and easy to use and would love to hear about great ideas that could help / benefit your workflows when working with issues. Please let us know what specific use-case you had in mind (or that is missing) so that we can find a solution, just drop us a message at [email protected] and we'll take it from there. All the best, Niclas & Team Bytesafe
