The stability of Assess is very good. We've never had any issues where we were unable to reach the platform. We've had very few issues with the agent. And where we did have issues with the agent, it tended to be something in our environment and not with the agent itself.

Contrast Security Assess is a very stable solution.

Assess is a pretty solid platform in most cases. Its embedded MySQL database works well for most development sites.

You can't quantify anything about the stability. It's more an autopilot, like agents. It's more like a process monitor that keeps looking at traffic. It's quite similar to that. Once you put it on there, it just hangs in there until the infrastructure team decides to move the old apps from PCF to another environment. Once it has been deployed it's done. It's all auto-maintained.

The tool has high stability. I would rate it a ten out of ten. 

The application is very stable because it is on-premise. So, we have had no issues with it. The stability of the solution is at a level where we just have the health check run on it and nothing more is needed. We don't have issues with capacity. We do not have issues with very high level of requests nor delays. It is very smooth at this point. We fine tuned it during the testing week. After that, nothing changed. It handles the traffic in a very easy way. We just configure it through the Contrast tool, if needed, which is very straightforward.

The maintenance is very simple. We have had two patches applied. Therefore, I have only needed to involve our systems team two times during these four months for one hour of time. The health check of the system has been added to our monitoring team's task, therefore there is no overhead for us.

So far, the stability has been good. We've only had two applications where performance was affected by the agent. For the hundreds of other agents we've deployed thus far, there's been no impact.

It is a stable solution.

It's been stable. It hasn't gone down from the time we installed it on our cloud. The scans are running every day. We have very great support from the Contrast team so they would be able to help us if we were stuck anywhere.

Overall, the stability is quite good. 

We've had a couple of support-related problems. Contrast is funny because there are many aspects of it that they don't support. For instance, we have ColdFusion applications and, on paper, Contrast did not support ColdFusion. However, it will still work with ColdFusion, kind of. But it has caused some problems as it comes to isolating troubleshooting issues that occur. It's left us in a position where we have to make generalized assumptions about what can and can't be supported. So, out-of-the-box, we've made the decision not to try to support ColdFusion because of the issues that that can pose for us.

Operational stability of the platform has been excellent.

The Assess agent is designed to run with the app in a preproduction environment. The agent monitors the operation of the application to which it is bound. This monitoring of course uses some processing resources and time, but the impact is usually not detectable by a human user of a web app. The additional processing might impact a loaded production system, so Contrast recommends that the Assess agent not be used in production.

However, some customers deploy Assess in production occasionally because they view the live production traffic as a source of additional test activity.