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."What I like best about Checkmarx is that it has fewer false positives than other products, giving you better results."
"The features and technologies are very good. The flexibility and the roadmap have also been very good. They're at the forefront of delivering the additional capabilities that are required with cloud delivery, etc. Their ability to deliver what customers require and when they require is very important."
"It has all the features we need."
"Overall, the ability to find vulnerabilities in the code is better than the tool that we were using before."
"The main thing we find valuable about Checkmarx is the ease of use. It's easy to initiate scans and triage defects."
"Both automatic and manual code review (CxQL) are valuable."
"It's not an obstacle for developers. They can easily write their code and make it more secure with Checkmarx."
"I like that you don't have to compile the code in order to execute static code analysis. So, it's very handy."
"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."
"I really would like to integrate it as a service along with the SAP HANA Cloud Platform. It will then be easy to use it directly as a service."
"I would like to see the DAST solution in the future."
"The statistics module has a function that allows you to show some statistics, but I think it's limited. Maybe it needs more information."
"The reports are good, but they still need to be improved considering what the UI offers."
"Checkmarx could improve the speed of the scans."
"This product requires you to create your own rulesets. You have to do a lot of customization."
"It would be really helpful if the level of confidence was included, with respect to identified issues."
"Integration into the SDLC (i.e. support for last version of SonarQube) could be added."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"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."
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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