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We performed a comparison between CAST Application Intelligence Platform and Contrast Security Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It supports most programming languages.""Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality.""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.""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."

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"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks.""The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives.""The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."

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Cons
"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.""The integration of this solution could be improved.""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."

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"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.""There's room for improvement in the initial setup.""Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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    Questions from the Community
    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 »
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:We use CAST Application Intelligence Platform for multiple purposes. One of its use cases is understanding the code health in terms of scalability, reliability, efficiency, and performance. These are… more »
    Top Answer:The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives.
    Top Answer:Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration.
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    Also Known As
    CAST AIP
    Contrast Protect
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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.

    Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of security technology that enables software applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks, heralding the new era of self-protecting software. Contrast's patented deep security instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate assessment and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio, without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has sensors that work actively inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure the entire enterprise from development, to operations, to production.

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    Protect your applications from attacks by detecting and automatically fixing vulnerabilities. Get a quick, personalized demo to see how you can better protect your business with Contrast Security.

    Sample Customers
    Steria, T-Systems MMS, Atos Origin, Accenture, Capgemini
    Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Insurance Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise75%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise76%

    CAST Application Intelligence Platform is ranked 3rd in Software Development Analytics with 3 reviews while Contrast Security Protect is ranked 32nd in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews. CAST Application Intelligence Platform is rated 7.0, while Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4. 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 Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". CAST Application Intelligence Platform is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify Application Defender, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx and BlueOptima, whereas Contrast Security Protect is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Snyk, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning and Sonatype Lifecycle.

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