Trade-Van Significantly Improves Time to Market With the Easy-to-Use Checkmarx One Platform

Trade-Van realized the importance of securing its software development life cycle (SDLC) and implemented a policy, “never launch without source code inspection.” Trade-Van’s internal developers were initially tasked with manual code reviews; however, due to a large number of applications and software updates, Trade-Van quickly realized that the only way to ensure a secure SDLC was to adopt a source code scanning tool.

After prudent evaluations, Trade-Van selected Checkmarx Static Application Security Testing (SAST) for its source code scanning solution. With the execution of a proof of concept, it was confirmed that Checkmarx is not only faster than competitors but also allows for incremental scans. Checkmarx SAST can be automated and integrated into developers existing tools and processes and it can generate reports according to international regulatory requirements such as OWASP Top 10, OWASP Mobile Top 10, SANS Top 25, PCI DSS, etc.

• Significantly reduced scan time

  Since launching Checkmarx SAST, Trade-Van is able to conduct scans at a much faster pace. Instead of taking up to 48 hours to conduct one scan, it now takes three to five minutes.

• Easily met compliance requirements

  Trade-Van is able to meet compliance and policy requirements with ease. By setting regulatory and criticality-based flaw policies, Trade-Van receives alerts from Checkmarx when updates are required to remain compliant with specified regulations or when a flaw meets its criticality threshold.

• Rapidly improved time to market

  There’s no longer a need for developers to stagger developments due to a low-efficiency scanning tool. They can scan as frequently as needed — significantly improving time to deployments.

• Substantially enhanced developer buy-in

  With AppSec scans integrated and automated into developers’ existing tools and processes, and with scan times significantly reduced, developers are seeing AppSec in a favorable light instead of as a potential bottleneck. In fact, Trade-Van developers have been actively addressing errors and working on how to avoid repeating mistakes.