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Global Settings

Global Settings allows the user to configure parameters in the tenant level. These parameters will apply on all the Applications, Projects, including all the scans in those projects.

The tenant level can be the lowest/highest level of configuration, depends on the parameters.

Open Account Settings

To open the tenant settings, in the main menu select Settings Settings.png > Global Settings.

The Account Settings page is displayed.

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General Settings

General Settings screen contains the following configuration parameters:

  • Global SSH Key (optional) - In case configured, this key will be used for authentication with 3rd party vendors.

  • Skip Submodules (optional) - Set the option to skip repositories submodules scans during Projects scans. By default, this option is set to false.

Note

  • Clicking the Trash.png icon will clear the configuration field.

  • Checking the Allow_Override.png checkbox will allow overriding the same parameter in the Project configuration level.

  • By default, "Allow override" is selected for all the parameters in the Tenant settings.

Scanners Settings

Scanners settings include SAST, IaC Security, API Security and SCA scanners.

Important

  • Each scanner has a different set of parameters.

  • It isn’t possible to configure the same parameter twice.

  • Clicking the Trash.png icon will clear the configuration field.

  • Checking the Allow_Override.png checkbox will allow overriding the same parameter in a higher level of configuration.

    For more information see Configuring Project Rules

  • By default, "Allow override" is selected for all the parameters in the Tenant settings.

SAST Scanner Parameters

All the Parameters that will be defined for the SAST scanner will be applied for all the Projects that will run SAST scans.

The table below presents all the optional Parameters, and their optional values.

Parameter

Values

Notes

presetName

All the available SAST Presets that exist in the system

  • For the full Presets list (including descriptions) go to the following link:

    Predefined Presets

  • The default preset that is used is ASA Premium

Fast scan mode

true / false

By default, the Fast Scan mode is false.

For more information, refer to Fast Scan Mode

incremental

true / false

LanguageMode

primary / multi

For more information see:

Specifying a Code Language for Scanning

Supported Code Languages and Frameworks:

Note

By default, the languageMode is Multi.

Folder/file filter

Allow users to select specific folders or files that they want to include or exclude from the code scanning process.

  • Including a file type - *.java

  • Excluding a file type - !*.java

  • Use “,” sign to chain file types

    for example: *.java,*.js

engineVerbose

true / false

  • true = Enables PRINT_DEBUG mode.

  • false = Enables PRINT_LOG mode.

ASA Premium Preset

ASA Premium Preset is a part of the SAST collection of presets.

This Preset is available only for Checkmarx One. Its usage is described in the table below.

Preset

Usage

Includes vulnerability queries for....

ASA Premium

The ASA Premium preset contains a subset of vulnerabilities that Checkmarx AppSec Accelerator team considers to be the starting point of the Checkmarx AppSec program.

The preset might change in future versions. The AppSec Accelerator team will remove old/deprecated queries or include new and improved queries in a continuously manner.

Apex, ASP, CPP, CSharp, Go, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin (non-mobile only), Perl, PHP, PLSQL, Python, Ruby, Scala, VB6, VbNet, Cobol, RPG and VbScript coding languages.

ASA Premium Mobile

The ASA Premium Mobile preset is a dedicated preset designed for mobile apps.

The ASA Premium Mobile preset contains a subset of vulnerabilities that Checkmarx AppSec Accelerator team considers to be the starting point of the Checkmarx AppSec program.

The preset might change in future versions. The AppSec Accelerator team will remove old/deprecated queries or include new and improved queries in a continuously manner.

Apex, ASP, CPP, CSharp, Go, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin (non-mobile only), Perl, PHP, PLSQL, Python, Ruby, Scala, VB6, VbNet, Cobol, RPG and VbScript coding languages.

Fast Scan Mode

The new SAST scanner aims to find the perfect balance between thorough security tests and the need for quick and actionable results. There’s no need to choose between speed and security. Alongside the Base Preset, we are thrilled to announce a new scan mode designed to speed up the scan: Fast Scan mode.

Fast Scan mode decreases the scanning time of projects up to 90%, making it faster to identify relevant vulnerabilities and enable continuous deployment while ensuring that security standards are followed. This will help developers tackle the most relevant vulnerabilities.

While the Fast Scan mode identifies the most significant and relevant vulnerabilities, the In-Depth scan mode offers deeper coverage. For the most critical projects with a zero-vulnerability policy, it is advised also to use our In-Depth scan mode

Warning

To expedite the results retrieval, the scanning process has been optimized to reduce the number of stages and flows involved in the scan. With this enhancement, the queries related to Fusion are not executed and results won’t be generated when utilizing this new mode.

You may also notice impact on the API Security scanner results.

IaC Security Scanner Parameters

All the Parameters that will be defined for the IaC Security scanner will be applied for all the Projects that will run IaC Security scans.

The table below presents all the optional Parameters, and their optional values.

Parameter

Values

Notes

filter

Any file type

  • Including a file type - *.java

  • Excluding a file type - !*.java

  • Use “,” sign to chain file types.

    for example: *.java,*.js

  • The parameter also supports including/excluding folders.

  • regex is not supported.

platforms

Ansible / CloudFormation / Dockerfile / Kubernetes / Terraform

Notice

Configure one/more platforms, separated with a comma.

The parameter means that you only want to run scans (queries) for those platforms.

For example: Ansible,CloudFormation,Dockerfile

Warning

Any mistake in the the platform characters will cause an error

SCA Scanner Parameters

All the Parameters that will be defined for the SCA scanner will be applied for all the Projects that will run SCA scans.

The table below presents all the optional Parameters, and their optional values.

Parameter

Values

Notes

filter

Any file type

  • Including a file type - *.java

  • Excluding a file type - !*.java

  • Use “,” sign to chain file types.

    for example: *.java,*.js

  • The parameter also supports including/excluding folders.

Exploitable Path

Toggle On/Off

When Exploitable Path is activated, scans that use the SCA scanner will identify whether or not there is an exploitable path from your source code to the vulnerable 3rd party package.

Learn more about Exploitable Path.

Exploitable Path Configuration

Radio button selection

The Exploitable Path feature uses queries in the SAST scan of your project to identify exploitable paths to vulnerable 3rd party packages. Therefore, it is always necessary to run a SAST scan on the project in order to get results for Exploitable Path.

Whenever you run a Checkmarx One scan with both the SAST and SCA scanners selected, Exploitable Path uses the results of the current SAST scan for analysis. When you run a Checkmarx One scan with only the SCA scanner selected, Checkmarx One can either use results from a previous SAST scan or it can initiate a new SAST scan (using default settings) that runs the Exploitable Path queries. Select one of the following configurations:

  • Use SAST scans for past _ day/s - specify the number of days for which results from a historic SAST scan will be used for Exploitable Path. If no scan was run within the specified period, then a new scan will be triggered.

    Warning

    Not fully supported in all environments. The default value of one day may be applied automatically.

  • Do not use existing SAST scans - Whenever you run a Checkmarx One scan with only the SCA scanner selected, a SAST scan will be triggered automatically in order to run the Exploitable Path queries.

Filtering Options

Filtering the scanners parameters is based on Glob.

For more information see Glob Tool

For instance:

  • Exclude all java files: !**/*.java

  • Exclude all files inside a folder Test: !**/Test/**

  • Exclude all files under root folder Test: !Test/**

  • Exclude just the files inside a folder leaving all subfolders content: !**/Test/*

  • Exclude all JavaScript minified files: !**/*.min.js

Note

The rules follow the same logic at tenant & project level.

Removing Parameters

Scanners parameters configuration work in hierarchy.

During parameters configuration, the system considers the Tenant level as the highest configuration level followed by Project level, Config as Code and Scan level.

Parameters are inherited from one level to the other, starting from Tenant level.

Removing parameters from a lower configuration level can be performed only by deleting the parameter configuration from the higher configuration level. In this case the parameter won't be presented in the lower configuration level.

In case users edit a parameter in a lower configuration level, a Trash.png icon will appear at the right. Deleting the parameter can't be performed, as the parameter is inherited from the higher configuration level. This behavior is designed to emphasize that the configuration exist at the Tenant level and it is set with "X" value.

In case using the icon, it might appear that the parameter is deleted, but it is not. In case exiting the page and returning, the parameter will be presented again.

Note

When running a scan, the system considers the Scan level as the highest configuration level, followed by Config as Code, Project level and Tenant level.

Code Repository Settings

Code repository organization settings screen contains all the code repository self-hosted instances that were successfully integrated with Checkmarx One, and all the cloud-based organizations that support the Monitor New Repositories feature.

For additional information about the feature see Monitor New Repositories

In this screen users can update the code repository self-hosted instances, and enable/disable the Monitor New Repositories feature for any existing cloud-based organization.

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Plugins Settings

The following IDE plugin features need to be activated on a tenant wide level in order for individual developers to be able to use them in their IDEs. Activation can be done by a Checkmarx One admin user via the Account Settings > Settings > Plugins tab.

Configuring Plugin Settings

To change the Plugin settings:

  1. Log in to Checkmarx One as an admin user.

  2. Click on the Settings Settings.png > Global Settings

  3. Click on Plugins.

  4. Enable/disable IDE features as needed.

    The setting is applied to all IDEs using this tenant account.

  5. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

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IDE Scans

When this feature is activated Checkmarx IDE plugins enable users to run a new Checkmarx One scan on the project that is open in their workspace.

In order to run IDE scans, you must first create a Checkmarx project and run the initial scan using some other method, e.g., web portal, API, CLI etc. and load the scan results in the Visual Studio console. Then, you are able to run subsequent scans on that project from the IDE.

Warning

Before enabling this feature, you should consider the ramifications; since there is a limitation to the number of concurrent scans that you can run based on your license, enabling IDE scans may cause scans triggered by CI/CD pipelines and SCM integrations to be added to the scan queue, causing major delays for those scans.

AI Guided Remediation

When this feature is activated, developers can access AI Guided Remediation in their IDE editor (currently supported for VS Code).

AI Guided Remediation harnesses the power of AI to help you to understand the vulnerabilities in your code, and resolve them quickly and easily. When you initiate an AI chat, we automatically provide the context to GPT so that you can start a conversation about the precise vulnerability instance that you are assessing.

Notice

When sending your IaC files to GPT, we protect your sensitive data by anonymizing all passwords and secrets before the content is sent. The query used for identifying sensitive data can be seen here.

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