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Life Sciences AppSec
for Regulated Software

Protect research platforms, validated systems, and partner ecosystems with security that keeps pace with AI-driven development – without breaking controlled change or slowing innovation.

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Built for pharma & medtech
FDA · GxP · 21 CFR Part 11 ready
Governance and Traceability for Validated Systems
Clear evidence of controlled change across apps – walk into audits with organized, audit-ready reporting
Clinical, Scientific, and Digital Coverage
Consistent visibility across validated systems, digital apps, and analytics tools without enforcement gaps
Partner and CRO Supply Chain Risk
Track OSS, API, and CRO-connected dependencies before exposure reaches research systems or production
Guidance That Respects Validation
Early feedback for digital teams delivered without creating downstream rework in validated change processes
Key Challenges

Cybersecurity That Respects Validation

Life sciences teams run validated systems and fast-moving digital apps side by side. Security has to work across both without breaking either.

Validated Systems Need Strict Governance

Proof of controlled change, secure apps, and lineage tracking is expected. Gaps create compliance and operational failures.

Partner and CRO Risk Expand Your Attack Surface

Open-source, API, and partner exposure across labs and CROs is hard to track and often missed until it reaches research.

Early Guidance Breaks Down Across Different Teams

Digital, analytics, and data teams need early guidance, but applying the same controls as validated environments creates friction.

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Life Sciences Runs on Controlled Change

Research velocity matters, but so does evidence, traceability, and system boundaries. Here’s how Checkmarx secures the workflows that matter most.

Clinical, Scientific, and Digital Coverage

Get consistent visibility across validated systems, digital apps, and analytics tools – all in one platform.

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Governance and Traceability for Validated Systems

Clear evidence of controlled change across apps, including AI-generated code. Walk into audits with organized reporting.

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Guidance That Respects Validation

Deliver early, agentic feedback to digital teams while respecting validated change processes.

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Partner and CRO Supply Chain Risk

Track OSS, API, and CRO-connected dependencies with SBOM and AI-BOM visibility before exposure reaches research systems.

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Checkmarx Puts Life Into Life Sciences

SAST & DAST

Regulated to Digital Coverage

Secure validated systems and fast-moving digital applications using a hybrid approach that combines deterministic rules with AI reasoning. Code-level analysis and runtime validation for portals, services, and data flows that support research and commercialization.

Code-level analysis for validated systems
SAST covers research platforms, LIMS, and clinical systems with the depth regulated environments demand
DAST for portals and partner services
Runtime validation catches authentication, API, and integration issues that static analysis misses in commercialization workflows
Calibrated to environment type
Apply deep, evidence-generating controls to validated systems and lighter-touch guidance to fast-moving digital apps
Lineage and change evidence
Full traceability of what was scanned, when, and what was found — supporting controlled change documentation for regulated systems
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SAST & SCA

Full Code and Dependency Coverage

Scan proprietary code and open-source dependencies in a single platform. Purpose-built for regulated environments that run both legacy and modern stacks, with SBOM support and malicious package detection included.

AI SAST
AI-enhanced static analysis with 99.7% accuracy and dramatically lower false positive rates than legacy scanners
SCA with reachability
Open-source vulnerability detection that only surfaces what's actually exploitable in your codebase
SBOM generation
Automated software bill of materials for regulatory compliance and supply chain visibility
Malicious package detection
Real-time protection against compromised open-source packages entering your builds
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SCA

Supply Chain Governance Across Partners

Track open-source, third-party, and CRO-connected dependencies with SBOM and AI-BOM visibility, malicious package detection, and dependency mapping that supports supply chain governance.

CRO and partner dependency mapping Full visibility into what enters your codebase from external labs, CROs, and technology partners
Full visibility into what enters your codebase from external labs, CROs, and technology partners
Malicious package detection
Industry-leading detection of compromised open-source packages before they enter research or clinical builds
Automated SBOM generation
Standards-aligned software bill of materials for FDA, regulatory, and supply chain compliance requirements
Exploitable path analysis
Surfaces only the OSS vulnerabilities actually reachable in your life sciences systems, reducing noise for development teams
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Application Security Posture Management

Evidence, Traceability, and Posture

Prioritize and remediate consistently across distributed engineering teams. Reduce backlog and mean time to remediate with guided workflows that enforce the same decisions regardless of team or region.

FDA and GxP audit-ready reporting
Evidence of controlled change, scan history, and finding disposition preserved automatically across all environments
Risk-based prioritization
Business context scoring identifies which findings affect validated or high-risk systems first, focusing remediation effort
Cross-environment correlation
Unified view of posture across validated research systems and digital commercial apps, without requiring separate tooling
Program maturity tracking
Continuous visibility into security program trends, coverage, and remediation velocity across both environment types
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Controlled Agentic AppSec: The Assist Agents

Fix Early and Safely Across Every Environment

Give digital teams early, context-aware preventative guidance, intelligent prioritization, and controlled, merge-ready fixes, while maintaining safe boundaries for validated and regression-sensitive workflows.

Early guidance for digital teams
In-workflow security feedback for analytics and commercial apps without triggering validation processes or creating unnecessary burden
Safe boundaries for validated systems
Controlled remediation support that respects change management expectations and regression risk in validated environments
Intelligent prioritization
AI-powered triage distinguishes between findings in validated vs. digital systems and prioritizes accordingly
Controlled, merge-ready fixes
Reviewable patches aligned to life sciences coding standards — reducing rework while preserving change documentation requirements
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Built for Life Sciences

Checkmarx Works Across Regulated and Digital Systems

See how Checkmarx helps life sciences teams secure research platforms, partner ecosystems, and digital applications without violating control expectations.

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Customer Stories

Why the World’s Top Teams Choose Checkmarx

“We’ve seen an 80% noise reduction — our engineers now focus on the high-quality risks that matter.”
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“By far the best AppSec tooling decision we have made”
“Checkmarx gave us a 90% reduction in vulnerabilities in just a few months.”
“Unifying our AppSec tools with Checkmarx gave us a single source of truth.”
“With 2.1B lines of code scanned monthly, Checkmarx gives us the scale and speed we need.”
“Checkmarx fits seamlessly into our DevOps pipelines—it’s a truly scalable solution.”
“From a buyer perspective, Checkmarx’s approach offers a structured and role-aware entry point into agentic security. ”
“Incorporating Checkmarx’s technology has revolutionized our development culture ”
“Checkmarx One made our security team and developers life easier.”
“The success of our AppSec program can be directly attributed to the tooling, processes and support provided by the Checkmarx managed services.”
“Bringing ASPM context directly into the IDE reflects a forward-looking approach to prioritizing security efforts based on risk earlier in the development process.”
Application Security for the Life Sciences

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Life Sciences Security

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Validated + digital apps:

Coverage with SAST and DAST.

CRO, partner, OSS risk:

Mapping with SCA, AI-BOM, and SBOM visibility.

Evidence + posture:

Centralize and simplify reporting with ASPM.

AI-assisted Early remediation:

Supported with Developer Assist Agent and controlled remediation.

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AppSec That Respects How Life Sciences Work

Protect research data, maintain evidence of control, and secure both validated and digital systems without slowing innovation.

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