CAST Highlight vs Ox Security comparison

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We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and Ox Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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CAST Highlight vs. Ox Security

July 2026

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Categories and Ranking

CAST Highlight

Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Ox Security

Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

15th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (24th), Software Supply Chain Security (9th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) category, the mindshare of CAST Highlight is 1.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ox Security is 2.8%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Ox Security	2.8%
CAST Highlight	1.3%
Other	95.9%

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Featured Reviews

Nishant Chauhan

Senior Data Engineer at LTM

Automated code insights have improved security checks and made review workflows more consistent

If I talk about improvements for CAST Highlight, I would suggest three things. The first is better understanding or niche understanding. Right now, the intent matching is strong for general topics such as ease of use, but for niche B2B terms such as HIPAA compliance or multi-tenant architecture, it sometimes misses context. Improving the domain-specific models would make highlights more accurate for these verticals. The second improvement is more control over the deduplication logic. CAST Highlight's deduplication is great for avoiding spam, but sometimes we want two similar quotes if they are from very different company sizes, such as SMB versus enterprise perspectives on pricing. A slider to adjust deduplication strictness would help. The third suggestion I would like to give is deeper sentiment and outcome tagging. While it has core sentiment capabilities, it does not tag outcomes automatically. For instance, if a quote mentions saved $50,000 per year, tagging that as cost savings $50,000 would let us build ROI charts instantly instead of reading each quote manually. Regarding user experience, integrations, and reporting, I think there is room to enhance those aspects. Regarding user experience, I would suggest improving user actions in terms of bulk actions and keyboard shortcuts. Day-to-day analysts review 50-plus suggested quotes, and currently it is mostly clicking to approve one by one. Adding bulk approve or reject options and keyboard shortcuts would significantly reduce the time taken. A small UX change can lead to a big speed boost. The second point is integrations when pushing to the CMS and Slack alerts. Right now, we export approved highlights manually from CAST Highlight. If CAST Highlight could push directly to our CMS or send Slack alerts for high-strength quotes that hit trending topics, it would close the loop faster, reducing copy-pasting. The third improvement relates to reporting, specifically custom insight dashboards. The tool displays which topics have the most highlights, but we cannot build custom dashboards yet. For example, showing all security quotes from healthcare companies with more than 1,000 employees over the last 90 days would enable better filtering, and exportable dashboards would streamline quarterly reviews.

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Yossi Shmulevitch

Owner at SoftContact

Experience has raised visibility into vulnerabilities but still demands deeper customization options

Regarding threat detection capability, I think that Ox Security is not used for that matter. The CISO mainly focuses on dev sec ops rather than runtime security or real-time security. I figure that the most important metrics for the analytics feature are the critical issues dashboard, which helps understand whether there is a leak of a secret or a very critical vulnerability that is not being used. Another important aspect is the integration with other products like JFrog and X-ray, which shows not all the findings but mostly focuses on what Ox Security considers the most important issues. For instance, we found some issues that were flagged by JFrog, but Ox Security dismissed them, leading to discussions about whether those issues are real, as there are often false positives in the security world, as well as considerations about the attack surface for each vulnerability and whether these are truly critical issues or not. I work extensively with JFrog X-ray, which is my major tool for another customer. I believe that JFrog is more pinpointing, and I have some integration with JFrog with the build system, the CI/CD and X-ray vulnerabilities meter. It's quite useful, but I think that they serve different purposes; JFrog comes mostly from the artifact management side and less from security. Ox Security is mostly focused on the DevSecOps and areas that cannot be detected. In terms of vulnerability management, Ox Security has strong integration, but sometimes there are vulnerabilities that are disputed or dismissed, which creates an interesting intersection between the two products. From what I talked about with the DevOps team, deployment is quite straightforward. My overall review rating for Ox Security is zero.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."

"CAST Highlight provides a clear overview of the role portfolio and allows users to assess the overall quality of the environment. Users can see where improvements are needed and follow up on trends of the application."

"We are using CAST Highlight for the location because it's an indicator for us that can differentiate us from the other health insurance company, and we are using the indicator as proof of the quality of service for our application."

"The solution provides agnostic blockers for platforms as well as for containerization."

"It offers good performance."

"In cloud migration, I use CAST highlight to identify blockers, which are the negative road patterns, and also the boosters, which are positive code patterns."

"We've been using it for two years and found that it is really profitable to have the product in our arsenal."

"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable, and it works seamlessly with most languages."

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"Ox Security has positively impacted my organization by helping to reduce the amount of noise we received from vulnerabilities because of the prioritization scoring it has and all of the context it provides."

"As a service provider, I believe the biggest advantage of Ox Security is its simplicity and the clarity of the issues, along with a very good dashboard showing the state of the company."

Cons

"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."

"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."

"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."

"Right now, the intent matching is strong for general topics such as ease of use, but for niche B2B terms such as HIPAA compliance or multi-tenant architecture, it sometimes misses context."

"There could be potential improvements or additional features added to CAST Highlight to make it better."

"Technical support could be better."

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive."

"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."

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"My overall review rating for Ox Security is zero."

"The main pain point I have with Ox Security as a tool is the user interface, which can feel quite complex when navigating large datasets."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions."

"It is a pretty costly tool. A lot of customers are resistant to using it."

"Basic support is included with the standard licensing feed but it can be upgraded for an additional cost."

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CAST Highlight?

The pricing of CAST Highlight was not considered expensive or cheap, and no specific comment was made about the setup cost.

What needs improvement with CAST Highlight?

What is your primary use case for CAST Highlight?

I have been using CAST Highlight for the last four years. In my company, we use CAST Highlight to perform testing for our code to find vulnerabilities and license risks. We also use CAST Highlight ...

What needs improvement with Ox Security?

I'm not sure about flexibility because I didn't try it, so I can't comment on that, but as far as I understand, most of Ox Security is not personalized. I think that most of the tool is quite deter...

What is your primary use case for Ox Security?

I worked with Ox Security as a service provider, not as a representative, but as a user. I use it in my employee capacity, providing services to companies in Israel, and one of them is an insurance...

What advice do you have for others considering Ox Security?

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Overview

Portfolio-level insights for app modernization, AI readiness, tech debt, OSS risks

CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence technology that delivers rapid, fact-based insights across your entire application portfolio. By automatically analyzing the source code of hundreds or thousands of applications, CAST Highlight helps organizations assess cloud maturity, AI & Agentic readiness, software health, open source risk, resiliency, technical debt, and sustainability from a single lightweight scan.

CAST Highlight is designed for CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, cloud leaders, application owners, security teams, and modernization teams that need a fact-based way to prioritize modernization, cloud, and AI adoption decisions at scale. It helps teams identify which applications are ready to move quickly, which require remediation, and where hidden software risks may affect transformation cost, timelines, security, resilience, or business outcomes.

Unlike traditional manual or survey-based assessments, CAST Highlight analyzes application source code directly to rapidly segment portfolios, prioritize modernization paths, and uncover risks before they impact transformation programs.

Organizations use CAST Highlight to:

Accelerate cloud migration and modernization planning
Segment applications by cloud maturity and transformation path
Identify high-value AI adoption opportunities
Assess Agentic Readiness across application portfolios
Prioritize technical debt, resiliency, and maintainability improvements
Assess open source vulnerabilities and IP / license exposure
Evaluate software sustainability with Green Impact insights
Reduce complexity, cost, and risk across transformation programs

CAST

OX rewires your security program for the Mythos Age: the era where AI writes the code, chains the exploits, and moves faster than human-built defenses can track.

OX is an AI Native Application Protection Platform (AINAPP) unifying security from Prompt to Runtime. It moves your control surface upstream to the prompt, preventing and governing risk at the source instead of chasing it downstream in runtime.

OX Mind and OX AI Context Lake connect AI-user governance, code security, cloud and runtime enforcement, and agentic pentesting into one system that shares context across the entire Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC), replacing fragmented point tools with a single platform.

The platform runs on four connected pillars:

OX VibeSec: Prevents unsafe AI decisions at the point of creation and governs every AI user in the organization, not just developers using coding assistants. Full visibility into which agents, MCPs, skills, and packages run, with what permissions, against what data.
OX Code: Separates exploitable risk from theoretical noise using evidence from your actual deployment, threat model, and threat intelligence.
OX Cloud: Prevents misconfigurations and enforces runtime boundaries that code and agents cannot cross, watching what actually runs in production.
OX Agentic Pentester: Continuously simulates adversarial agent behavior to prove exploit paths back to their exact source, feeding what it finds back into OX VibeSec to sharpen governance.

OX connects to your existing stack and traces every finding back to its origin (the prompt, the AI user, or the endpoint that created it), then fixes issues at the source rather than flagging them after the fact.

For new deployments, OX consolidates governance, code security, cloud enforcement, and pentesting into one platform. For existing stacks, OX layers governance on top and makes current tools smarter through continuous learning, so the same issue never gets created twice.

Visit https://ox.security for more information.

Sample Customers

Liberty Mutual, Barclays, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, Marsh & McLennan, Ernst & Young, PwC, Boston Consulting Group, Telefonica, Total Energies France, SNCF, Broadridge, Sirius XM

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