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Repository Health

Improve your security posture with full visibility into the security, dependency management, and maintenance health of the code repositories used in your applications.

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Reduce Security Risks by Health Scoring-Code Repositories

Without repo health monitoring, repositories are at risk of unauthorized code changes, dangerous or low-quality code, regulatory non-compliance, and other security threats.

Continuous Repo Health Scoring

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Track health scores for all repositories included in your applications based on factors including security practices, testing practices, dependency management, CI/CD best practices, and project maintenance.

Automatic SCM-Triggered Scans

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Integration with SCM platforms enables scans to run automatically upon repository updates, ensuring up-to-date repo health metrics with no manual effort. 

Flexible On-Demand Scanning Options

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In addition to automatic SCM-triggered scans, developers and security teams can manually run repo health scans at any time via API, CLI, or the Checkmarx One UI.

Unified Risk Reporting

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Repository health scores are included in Checkmarx One reports, providing visibility intoand efficient prioritization ofsecurity vulnerabilities, code quality issues, and repository health risks, all in one place. 

  • Continuous Repo Health Scoring

    Track health scores for all repositories included in your applications based on factors including security practices, testing practices, dependency management, CI/CD best practices, and project maintenance.

  • Automatic SCM-Triggered Scans

    Integration with SCM platforms enables scans to run automatically upon repository updates, ensuring up-to-date repo health metrics with no manual effort. 

  • Flexible On-Demand Scanning Options

    In addition to automatic SCM-triggered scans, developers and security teams can manually run repo health scans at any time via API, CLI, or the Checkmarx One UI.

  • Unified Risk Reporting

    Repository health scores are included in Checkmarx One reports, providing visibility intoand efficient prioritization ofsecurity vulnerabilities, code quality issues, and repository health risks, all in one place. 

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Secure Your Software With Repository Health Checks

Learn how you can use repository health scoring to improve your application security posture.

What’s in it for you

How Enterprises Benefit From Repo Health Scoring

Continuous repository health monitoring helps minimize the threat exposure of vulnerable code repos, leading to improved security and enhanced transparency with stakeholders.

Security Chain

Maximum Security for the Software Supply Chain

Ongoing comprehensive visibility into the security health of all code repositories closes a critical gap in software supply chain security.

Prioritizing Remediation Efforts 

Holistic and Efficient Risk Prioritization

Identifying and prioritizing high-risk areas in all aspects of the software supply chain allows developers and security teams to focus their efforts on the most critical security issues.

Build Trust

Enhanced Transparency and Communication

Having unified metrics on the security posture of code repositories improves transparency, communication, and collaboration among stakeholders.

What Our Customers Say About Us

See why enterprises trust our approach to AppSec to secure their business-critical applications.

“Checkmarx One definitely checks all my boxes from a security standpoint and has a great interface that’s engaging and easy to use. Some of the solutions we considered were more complicated. With Checkmarx One, it’s easy to get right to the problem with little to no learning curve.”

“Incorporating Checkmarx’s technology has revolutionized our development culture. It’s more than just technology; it serves as the foundation of our security strategy, ensuring that our applications are secure by design.”

“The success of our AppSec program can be directly attributed to the tooling, processes and support provided by Checkmarx managed services. Our mission revolves around providing secure and compliant lottery and gaming applications and services to our clients around the globe, and with Checkmarx SAST, SCA and associated components enhanced by their stellar service support, we deliver on this promise with confidence and certainty.”

“After nearly nine years of using Checkmarx’s SAST, CGI’s journey has been one of seamless integration and consistent satisfaction. The last three years have been particularly smooth, reflecting the solution’s reliability and our successful partnership.”

“After reviewing the Checkmarx platform, I’m not sure how Veracode is able to exist while being at a similar price point.”

“Checkmarx’s execution is impressive; it’s brought all the products under one cloud platform.”

“By Far The Best AppSec Tooling Decision We Have Made!!”

“We were thrilled to find Checkmarx, which helped us improve the SLA for identifying and remediating risk, reduce risk and the number of vulnerabilities, and eliminate high- and medium-risk issues.”

“Checkmarx made security team and developers life easier.”

FAQ

Why is automated repository health monitoring important?

Modern code repositories store application source code, CI/CD configurations, IaC files and other sensitive data. Software supply chain attacks are rising steeply; poorly managed internal code repos are a weak point in an organization’s software supply chain security posture. Because large enterprises typically maintain thousands of repos, it is impossible to manually track how well each of them is configured, maintained, and secured. An automated solution is needed to continuously determine the security and code-quality health of internal code repos. 

What metrics are measured to determine repository health?

Checkmarx’ Repository Health helps you maximize the security posture of your applications by automatically and continuously tracking the security and quality practices applied to your code repositories. Each repo is scored on its security policies and best practices, including: 

  • Code review before merge 
  • Branch protection 
  • Pinned dependencies 
  • Dependencies actively maintained 
  • Presence of executable (binary) artifacts 
  • Fuzzing required 
  • Presence of a detailed security policy 
  • CI pipeline tests 
  • Dangerous GitHub Action workflows 
  • Signed releases 
  • Secure packaging 

What is OSSF Scorecard?

OSSF Scorecard is an open source project created by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) that assesses code repositories for security risks through a series of automated checks. Checkmarx One incorporates the results of OSSF Scorecard metrics in its reports so that developers and security teams can improve their visibility into security vulnerabilities, code quality issues, repository maintenance standards, and other repository health risks. 

How often should repositories be scanned for health checks?

Frequent scans on a regular basis (weekly or monthly) are recommended to continuously monitor repositories for emerging risks. In addition, it is considered a best practice to re-scan a repository any time it is updated, preferably through SCM integration and automation. 

How do health check scores affect open source usage decisions?

Enterprises use repo health scores to evaluate the risks associated with open source components, guiding decisions on whether to adopt, update, or replace dependencies based on their security and operational risk scores. 

What actions should be taken if a repository scores poorly?

A poor repo health score indicates that the repository may have security or operational risks, prompting further investigation and remediation steps. To maximize application security posture, repositories must be protected from the risks of unauthorized code changes, dangerous or low-quality code, regulatory non-compliance, and other security threats. 

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Explore Checkmarx One Packaging & Pricing

Application Security Posture
Management (ASPM) Consolidated, correlated, prioritized insights to help your team manage risk

Code

AI Powered
  • SAST

    Conduct fast and accurate scans to identify risk in your custom code.

  • DAST

    Identify vulnerabilities only seen in production and assess their behavior.

  • API Security

    Eliminate shadow and zombie APls and mitigate API-specific risks.

Supply Chain

AI Powered
  • SCA

    Easily identify, prioritize, remediate, and manage open source security and license risks.

  • Malicious Package Protection

    Detect and remediate malicious or suspicious third-party packages that may be endangering your organization.

  • AI Security

    Built to accelerate AppSec teams and help developers secure applications from the first line of code.

  • Secrets Detection

    Minimize risk by quickly identifying and eliminating exposed secrets.

  • Repository Health

    Reduce security risks by health-scoring the code repositories used in your applications.

Cloud

AI Powered
  • Container Security

    Scan container images, configurations, and identify open source packages and vulnerabilities preproduction and runtime.

  • IaC Security

    Automatically scan your laC files for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations.

Dev Enablement

  • Codebashing

    Secure code training to upskill your developers and reduce risk from the first line of code.

Services

  • Premium Support

    Maximize ROI with prioritized technical support, metrics monitoring, and operational assistance.

  • Premium Services

    Augment your security team with Checkmarx services to ensure the success of your AppSec program.

  • Maturity Assessment

    Assess the current state of your AppSec program, benchmark against peers, and get actionable next steps for improvement.

Dev Enablement

  • Codebashing

    Codebashing

    Secure code training to upskill your developers and reduce risk from the first line of code.

Unified Dashboard, Reporting & Risk Management

Application Security Posture
Management (ASPM)

Consolidated, correlated, prioritized insights to help your team manage risk

AI Powered

Code

  • SAST

    Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

    Conduct fast and accurate scans to identify risk in your custom code.

  • DAST

    Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

    Identify vulnerabilities only seen in production and assess their behavior.

  • API Security

    API Security

    Eliminate shadow and zombie APls and mitigate API-specific risks.

Supply Chain

  • SCA

    Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

    Easily identify, prioritize, remediate, and manage open source security and license risks.

  • Malicious Package Protection

    Malicious Package Protection

    Detect and remediate malicious or suspicious third-party packages that may be endangering your organization.

  • AI Security

    AI Security

    Built to accelerate AppSec teams and help developers secure applications from the first line of code.

  • Secrets Detection

    Secrets Detection

    Minimize risk by quickly identifying and eliminating exposed secrets.

  • Repository Health

    Repository Health

    Reduce security risks by health-scoring the code repositories used in your applications.

Cloud

  • Container Security

    Container Security

    Scan container images, configurations, and identify open source packages and vulnerabilities preproduction and runtime.

  • IaC Security

    IaC Security

    Automatically scan your laC files for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations.

Services

  • Premium Support

    Premium Support

    Maximize ROI with prioritized technical support, metrics monitoring, and operational assistance.

  • Premium Services

    Premium Services

    Augment your security team with Checkmarx services to ensure the success of your AppSec program.

  • Maturity Assessment

    Maturity Assessment

    Assess the current state of your AppSec program, benchmark against peers, and get actionable next steps for improvement.

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