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 most valuable feature is the simple user interface."
"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 UI is user-friendly."
"The main thing we find valuable about Checkmarx is the ease of use. It's easy to initiate scans and triage defects."
"I like that you don't have to compile the code in order to execute static code analysis. So, it's very handy."
"The value you can get out of the speedy production may be worth the price tag."
"The setup is fairly easy. We didn't struggle with the process at all."
"The user interface is excellent. It's very user friendly."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"They could work to improve the user interface. Right now, it really is lacking."
"Checkmarx needs to be more scalable for large enterprise companies."
"Checkmarx being Windows only is a hindrance. Another problem is: why can't I choose PostgreSQL?"
"The interactive application security testing, or IAST, the interactive part where you're looking at an application that lives in a runtime environment on a server or virtual machine, needs improvement."
"Checkmarx reports many false positives that we need to manually segregate and mark “Not exploitable”."
"Checkmarx has a slightly difficult compilation with the CI/CD pipeline."
"Implementing a blackout time for any user or teams: Needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
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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