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"Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality.""The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out.""Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients.""It supports most programming languages."

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"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs.""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.""We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."

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"It has very few plugins to access different code repositories, so source code has to be fed.""Implementation could be made more simpler as it is complex.""The integration of this solution could be improved.""The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code."

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"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported.""Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install.""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."

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  • "I do know how the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is licensed, but I'm not able to give the cost because the price is not listed. My company works with individual vendors, so pricing is on a case-to-case basis, but the vendors give specialized pricing because of the enterprise deployment, though my team is aware of product pricing based on lines of code, based on the number of applications, etc., I'm unable to give the exact licensing costs of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. My company doesn't have to pay extra for some features or services because all are included as part of the enterprise license. On a scale of one to five, with five being very cheap and one being very expensive, I would rate the CAST Application Intelligence Platform as three out of five."
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    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some… more »
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    Also Known As
    CAST AIP
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    Overview

    CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP), a result of over $130M in R&D investment over two decades, is an enterprise-grade software measurement and quality analysis solution designed to analyze multi-tiered, multi-technology applications for technical vulnerabilities and adherence to architectural and coding standards and then provide business relevant information to the IT organization through various dashboards and products built with end users in mind.

    • Application Analytics Dashboard (CAST AAD): Provides IT executives with accurate business relevant analytics to drive their organization
    • Application Engineering Dashboard (CAST AED): Provides engineering and QA teams with powerful code and system level structural flaw insight and remediation guidance
    • Enlighten: Delivers to developers a powerful deep understanding of their application’s structure
    • Architecture Checker: Gives architects a reliable, automated solution to enforce architectures that deliver stability and performance of their critical applications

    CAST’s underlying system-level analysis technology assesses both the health of an application, as measured through numerous health factors, as well as specific structural and system-level defects that drive performance and stability issues providing true system level analysis.

    Defensics® fuzz testing is a comprehensive, powerful, and automated black box solution that enables organizations to effectively and efficiently discover and remediate security weaknesses in software. By taking a systematic and intelligent approach to negative testing, Defensics allows organizations to ensure software security without compromising on product innovation, increasing time to market, or inflating operational costs.

    Sample Customers
    Steria, T-Systems MMS, Atos Origin, Accenture, Capgemini
    Coriant, CERT-FI, Next Generation Networks
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Insurance Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Government5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise75%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise73%

    CAST Application Intelligence Platform is ranked 3rd in Software Development Analytics with 3 reviews while Synopsys Defensics is ranked 5th in Fuzz Testing Tools. CAST Application Intelligence Platform is rated 7.0, while Synopsys Defensics is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CAST Application Intelligence Platform writes "Has a security dashboard that's helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry". 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". CAST Application Intelligence Platform is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify Application Defender, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx and BlueOptima, whereas Synopsys Defensics is most compared with Snyk, SonarQube, Invicti, Fortify on Demand and HCL AppScan.

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