We performed a comparison between Checkmarx and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning 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 solution improved the efficiency of our code security reviews. It helps tremendously because it finds hundreds of potential problems sometimes."
"The identification of verification-related security vulnerabilities is really important and one of the key things. It also identifies vulnerabilities for any kind of third-party tool coming into the system or any third-party tools that you are using, which is very useful for avoiding random hacking."
"The most valuable features of Checkmarx are the automation and information that it provides in the reports."
"Vulnerability details is valuable."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"The solution has good performance, it is able to compute in 10 to 15 minutes."
"It's not an obstacle for developers. They can easily write their code and make it more secure with Checkmarx."
"The main thing we find valuable about Checkmarx is the ease of use. It's easy to initiate scans and triage defects."
"We use the tool for our websites. We have a vulnerable subdomain. The tool helps to scan it for vulnerabilities."
"Tenable provides the end analysis results covering all the published vulnerabilities and information on the market."
"The most effective feature of the product is the ability to scan the entire environment."
"We can get detailed information about vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting, which provides a good level of detail with respect to vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable features of Tenable.io Web Application Scanning are the integration into specific use cases and scanning. All of the features of the solution are useful."
"The solution is stable."
"It is fully automated."
"As the solution becomes more complex and feature rich, it takes more time to debug and resolve problems. Feature-wise, we have no complaints, but Checkmarx becomes harder to maintain as the product becomes more complex. When I talk to support, it takes them longer to fix the problem than it used to."
"Checkmarx needs to be more scalable for large enterprise companies."
"It is an expensive solution."
"C, C++, VB and T-SQL are not supported by this product. Although, C and C++ were advertised as being supported."
"If it is a very large code base then we have a problem where we cannot scan it."
"The lack of ability to review compiled source code. It would then be able to compete with other scanning tools, such as Veracode."
"Checkmarx is not good because it has too many false positive issues."
"They could work to improve the user interface. Right now, it really is lacking."
"The reporting has a very limited customization capability."
"The report customization needs to be better."
"The platform's technical support services could be better."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is not very user-friendly and you need a lot of information to get proper reports. The tool's support is not very responsive."
"They have a general dashboard for web application scanning, but the dashboards and reporting can be improved. They probably have some features in their roadmap."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning could improve by offering faster fuzzing."
"The solution's dashboards could be improved and made more user-friendly."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning conducts a general scan, which wastes time. The scan needs to be specific."
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Checkmarx is ranked 3rd in Application Security Tools with 67 reviews while Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is ranked 24th in Application Security Tools with 14 reviews. Checkmarx is rated 7.6, while Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Checkmarx writes "The report function is a great, configurable asset but sometimes yields false positives". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable.io Web Application Scanning writes "Highly Recommended Solution with Latest Scanning Methods". Checkmarx is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Coverity, whereas Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is most compared with Acunetix, SonarQube, Qualys Web Application Scanning, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Fortify on Demand. See our Checkmarx vs. Tenable.io Web Application Scanning report.
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