We performed a comparison between Checkmarx 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 user interface is modern and nice to use."
"The most valuable feature is the application tracking reporting."
"The most valuable features of Checkmarx are the SCA module and the code-checking module. Additionally, the solutions are explanatory and helpful."
"From my point of view, it is the best product on the market."
"The SAST component was absolutely 100% stable."
"The most valuable feature for me is the Jenkins Plugin."
"The UI is very intuitive and simple to use."
"Our static operation security has been able to identify more security issues since implementing this solution."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"You can't use it in the continuous delivery pipeline because the scanning takes too much time."
"The reports are good, but they still need to be improved considering what the UI offers."
"I would like the product to include more debugging and developed tools. It needs to also add enhancements on the coding side."
"Micro-services need to be included in the next release."
"We would like to be able to run scans from our local system, rather than having to always connect to the product server, which is a longer process."
"I would like to see the DAST solution in the future."
"Some of the descriptions were found to be missing or were not as elaborate as compared to other descriptions. Although, they could be found across various standard sources but it would save a lot of time for developers, if this was fixed."
"The statistics module has a function that allows you to show some statistics, but I think it's limited. Maybe it needs more information."
"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."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
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Checkmarx 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 is rated 7.6, while Contrast Security Protect is rated 8.4. 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 Contrast Security Protect writes "It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks". Checkmarx 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 vs. Contrast Security Protect report.
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