We performed a comparison between Checkmarx One and Contrast Security Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The only thing I like is that Checkmarx does not need to compile."
"It has all the features we need."
"The user interface is modern and nice to use."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"The product's most valuable feature is static code and supply chain effect analysis. It provides a lot of visibility."
"One of the most valuable features is it is flexible."
"The main advantage of this solution is its centralized reporting functionality, which lets us track issues, then see and report on the priorities via a web portal."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its number of false positives is less than the other security application platforms. Its ease of use is another good feature. It also supports most of the languages."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"Checkmarx needs to be more scalable for large enterprise companies."
"We can run only one project at a time."
"Creating and editing custom rules in Checkmarx is difficult because the license for the editor comes at an additional cost, and there is a steep learning curve."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Sometimes, it is a little complex to understand its pricing model."
"I would like the product to include more debugging and developed tools. It needs to also add enhancements on the coding side."
"I think the CxAudit tool has room for improvement. At the beginning you can choose a scan of a project, but in any event the project must be scanned again (wasting time)."
"Checkmarx could improve by reducing the price."
"As the solution becomes more complex and feature rich, it takes more time to debug and resolve problems. Feature-wise, we have no complaints, but Checkmarx becomes harder to maintain as the product becomes more complex. When I talk to support, it takes them longer to fix the problem than it used to."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
Checkmarx One is ranked 3rd in Application Security Tools with 67 reviews while Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews. Checkmarx One is rated 7.6, while Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Checkmarx One writes "The report function is a great, configurable asset but sometimes yields false positives". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". Checkmarx One is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Coverity, whereas Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle. See our Checkmarx One vs. Contrast Security Protect report.
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