Staying Ahead of Application Security Risks with Checkmarx One
As businesses deploy applications faster than ever, application security becomes more challenging to handle in terms of balancing efficiency and managing ever-growing security risks. The key is not just keeping up but rather staying ahead of the risk: At Checkmarx, we provide a solution to this challenge with a platform that helps enterprises keep their applications secure while maintaining production velocity.
Many organizations face the challenge of managing an expanding portfolio of applications, each introducing unique vulnerabilities and risks. The common solution is to use a variety of standalone security tools, but this sprawl often gets out of hand and leads to inefficiencies and incomplete coverage. For example, Developers are buried under mountains of false positives, security teams lack integrated insights, and vulnerabilities slip between the cracks. This fragmented security approach fails on both counts: providing comprehensive protection and supporting production.
Checkmarx solves this by unifying security processes under one platform. Our cloud-native application security platform, Checkmarx One, eliminates the sprawl by offering a complete, integrated view of application risk. It empowers teams to manage security effectively, without disrupting workflows.
End the Guesswork – Prioritize What Matters Most
Managing vulnerabilities can feel like a guessing game when security tools flood you with data but lack clarity on what needs immediate attention. With Checkmarx, you can eliminate guesswork, spot the most critical vulnerabilities, and know which ones to fix first. This ensures your teams focus on the highest risks and address them more quickly. We achieve this via:
- Application Risk Management – Provides a clear, prioritized view of applications based on their risk level, allowing security teams to identify the riskiest ones and focus their efforts on addressing critical issues.
- Static Reachability Analysis – Traces data flow from your code to open-source packages, identifying exploitable vulnerabilities and ensuring that teams prioritize issues that pose a real risk of exploitation. All this is done with precision, avoiding unnecessary remediation work.
- Runtime Reachability Analysis – Correlates vulnerabilities with runtime data from cloud environments like AWS EKS, Sysdig, and Wiz. This enables teams to prioritize fixes based on real-world cloud environment risks while providing accurate and timely vulnerability management.
Let Your Devs Work
Managing application security often disrupts developers’ workflows, requiring them to step out of their usual processes to attend to security findings. This misalignment between security requirements and development workflows creates friction, slows down development cycles, and hinders productivity. Checkmarx solves this by seamlessly integrating security tasks into developers’ workflows, ensuring that vulnerabilities are addressed as they pop up, without causing delays later in the process.
This is done through various capabilities, including:
- IDE Integration – Embeds security directly into developers’ IDEs, allowing vulnerabilities to be identified and addressed as developers write code. This integration includes remediation suggestions and enables auto-fixing of common issues, preventing them from escalating and saving valuable time.
- Feedback Tools – Connects with platforms like Jira, Teams, and Slack to automatically open tickets based on customized rules, ensuring that security tasks are prioritized and tracked within the ticketing systems developers already use.
- AI Secure Coding Assistant – Leverages AI to guide developers in real-time by providing secure coding recommendations and automated fixes, reducing errors and enhancing the code’s security as it’s written.
Make It All Work Together
The fragmentation of application security tools, where each tool produces its own set of vulnerabilities and requires separate management, leads to inefficiencies, confusion, higher costs, and delays in risk resolution.
Checkmarx solves this by consolidating all your application security tools into a one unified platform, providing a holistic view of application risk. With this integrated approach, security and development teams can collaborate more effectively, streamline their workflows, and reduce costs while maintaining a strong security posture.
- Comprehensive Toolset for Securing Application Development – Includes capabilities like SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC Security, API Security, Container Security, Cloud Insights and more, ensuring full-spectrum protection for every aspect of your development process.
- Unified Dashboard – Aggregates data from multiple security tools into a single interface, providing teams with a comprehensive view of vulnerabilities and risk levels, helping to eliminate redundancies and saving valuable time.
- Comprehensive SDLC Coverage – Seamlessly integrates into every stage of the software development lifecycle, automating security checks and reducing manual efforts, while ensuring that security is not a bottleneck at any stage.
Why is a ‘Platform Approach’ a Game-changer?
A platform approach to application security is by far the most effective way to manage enterprise-scale AppSec. It streamlines operations, reduces costs, and improves decision-making. Furthermore, it bridges the gap between AppSec and dev teams, into a seamless DevSecOps workflow.
By unifying security tools, workflows, and data, Checkmarx eliminates complexity and cuts licensing, training, and operational costs. This approach helps organizations gain a complete, real-time view of their application security posture, enabling teams to prioritize the most critical vulnerabilities and act quickly. Customers report a 2X return on investment and a 40-50% boost in developer productivity.
With Checkmarx, organizations can achieve faster remediation times, better collaboration, and stronger security outcomes, all while reducing time spent on security tasks. Our unified solution enables businesses to scale their security as they grow, secure their entire application portfolio, and eliminate inefficiencies. For more detailed insights into the platform’s impact, refer to the Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) report.