Contrast Security Protect Reviews

Name: Contrast Security Protect
Brand: Contrast Security
Rating: 4.2 (3 reviews)

4.2 out of 5

3 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Contrast Security Protect?

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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Contrast Security Protect is the #30 ranked solution in application security solutions. PeerSpot users give Contrast Security Protect an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Contrast Security Protect is most commonly compared to SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube): Contrast Security Protect vs SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube). Contrast Security Protect is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 26% of all views.

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Featured Contrast Security Protect reviews

Akshay Waghmare

Manager at Deloitte

We use the product for DevSecOps. The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives. Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration. I have been using the product for a year. Contrast Security Protect is stable. The solution is scalable. My company has ten…

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ToddMcAlister

Lead Application and Data Security Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I rate Contrast Security Protect eight out of 10. Overall, it's a solid product, but I deduct a couple of points because of the interface and some shortcomings in the reporting. If you have a large enterprise where you're dealing with a lot of servers, then it makes sense not to use the internal MySQL database. You should use something like Oracle or Microsoft SQL, but if you don't have many transactions, the embedded MySQL database works great.

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reviewer1494855

Senior Customer Success Manager at a tech company with 201-500 employees

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. We updated the product about a year ago and at that time it was the latest. The product has an agent that's deployed wherever the applications are running, whether that's on-prem or in the cloud. It connects with our service, which is SaaS, which is in the cloud. From there it provides a dashboard, a console of activities, and other integrations. I would recommend the solution. It's a way to provide the protection until a future release or a re-work of that whole application set. Overall, I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It's a very strong product overall.

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Contrast Security Protect mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of Contrast Security Protect in the Application Security Tools category stands at 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

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

Room for Improvement

"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"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."

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