We performed a comparison between Checkmarx One and Synopsys Defensics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The only thing I like is that Checkmarx does not need to compile."
"The best thing about Checkmarx is the amount of vulnerabilities that it can find compared to other free tools."
"One of the most valuable features is it is flexible."
"The ability to track the vulnerabilities inside the code (origin and destination of weak variables or functions)."
"The UI is very intuitive and simple to use."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"Vulnerability details is valuable."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Checkmarx needs to improve the false positives and provide more accuracy in identifying vulnerabilities. It misses important vulnerabilities."
"The tool is currently quite static in terms of finding security vulnerabilities. It would be great if it was more dynamic and we had even more tools at our disposal to keep us safe. It would help if there was more scanning or if the process was more automated."
"They could work to improve the user interface. Right now, it really is lacking."
"The lack of ability to review compiled source code. It would then be able to compete with other scanning tools, such as Veracode."
"When we first ran it on a big project, there wasn't enough memory on the computer. It originally ran with eight gigabytes, and now it runs with 32. The software stopped at some point, and while I don't think it said it ran out of memory, it just said "stopped" and something else. We had to go to the logs and send them to the integrator, and eventually, they found a memory issue in the logs and recommended increasing the memory. We doubled it once, and it didn't seem enough. We doubled it again, and it helped."
"The pricing can get a bit expensive, depending on the company's size."
"The product can be improved by continuing to expand the application languages and frameworks that can be scanned for vulnerabilities. This includes expanded coverage for mobile applications as well as open-source development tools."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
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Checkmarx One is ranked 3rd in Application Security Tools with 67 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. Checkmarx One is rated 7.6, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. 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 Synopsys Defensics writes "Technical support provided protocol-specific documentation to prove that some positives were not false". Checkmarx One is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Coverity, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Fortify on Demand, Invicti and OWASP Zap.
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