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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Contrast Security Assess and ReversingLabs are significant players in the security solutions market. While both feature strong capabilities, ReversingLabs seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive malware analysis and threat intelligence capabilities.

Features: Contrast Security Assess is known for its seamless integration, detailed security insights, and comprehensive visibility, allowing users to effectively monitor and manage security risks. ReversingLabs stands out with extensive malware analysis features, rich threat intelligence, and broad capabilities, offering a deep-dive security analysis that is highly valued by users.

Room for Improvement: User feedback suggests that Contrast Security Assess could improve reporting functionalities and expand support options to enhance user experience. Its dashboard usability is another area that could be refined. ReversingLabs could benefit from a simplified setup process, improvements in user interface clarity, and reduced complexity in managing updates to address user concerns.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Contrast Security Assess is praised for easy deployment across different environments, but users express a need for more responsive customer support. ReversingLabs, although having a more complex deployment process, is appreciated for providing responsive customer service, which is a strength users rely on despite deployment complexities.

Pricing and ROI: Users find Contrast Security Assess to offer competitive pricing and a good ROI, appreciating its cost-effective structure. ReversingLabs has a higher cost which users find justified by its robust features, delivering comprehensive security benefits essential for those requiring advanced threat detection capabilities.

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Contrast Security Assess vs. ReversingLabs

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Categories and Ranking

Contrast Security Assess

Ranking in Application Security Tools

25th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (21st)

ReversingLabs

Ranking in Application Security Tools

41st

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Anti-Malware Tools (43rd), Container Security (52nd), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (25th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (29th), Software Supply Chain Security (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Contrast Security Assess is 1.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ReversingLabs is 0.9%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Security Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Contrast Security Assess	1.7%
ReversingLabs	0.9%
Other	97.4%

Application Security Tools

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Eucharia Okafor

Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Continuous in-app security has transformed our development workflow and has reduced manual checks

Contrast Security Assess changes how the team thinks about security. Instead of us waiting for a security audit at the end of any sprint, vulnerabilities surface as developers are writing and testing code. That shift is significant because fixing a bug in development costs more than fixing it later. It captures everything right there and remediates it because it catches vulnerability and remediates immediately while the application is running. It improves our collaboration between development and security teams, as developers get clear actionable findings immediately. We get continuous visibility into our application risk posture. Ultimately, it helps us to shift fast and save money, which is usually a trade-off, but Contrast Security Assess makes both possible. The feature that stands out most to me in Contrast Security Assess is the ability to capture vulnerability while the application is running. Another standout feature is the real-time detection that finds vulnerabilities as code runs. It has fewer false positives and works continuously in the application; you install it and it is there. It captures issues during development quickly and is easily integrated with a CI/CD pipeline, especially if you are using GitLab or GitHub. The real-time detection feature of Contrast Security Assess helps us very well compared to traditional SAST tools. Traditional tools scan from the outside and guess where problems might be. Contrast Security Assess works from the inside because it is embedded into the application. The agent lives inside the running application, allowing it to see exactly what is happening in real-time. This means we are getting accurate alerts instead of a long list of potential issues that require manual investigation. When it comes to the CI/CD pipeline, Contrast Security Assess really shines for our daily work, as it plugs directly into tools like Jenkins, GitHub, or Azure DevOps. When a developer commits code and triggers a build, Contrast Security Assess is already testing it in the background. If there is any vulnerability, the pipeline automatically flags or stops the application before bad code reaches production. This means security becomes everyone's responsibility, not just the security team's, and it gives us real-time, accurate security that fits into how our team already works.

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Tim Craig

Forensic Lead, Global Security Fusion Center at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Very good malware and goodware repository and enables us to look more deeply at indicators of compromise

The automated static analysis of malware is the most valuable feature. Its detection abilities are very good. It hits all of the different platforms out there, platforms that see the items in the wild. Also, the solution’s object and file analysis provide us with actionable insights. Its malware and goodware repository is very good. It's very robust. It gets all of the different repositories that are out there that do analysis and brings them under one roof where we can statically analyze for those indicators of compromise and look at them more deeply. If we need to go deeper into things, we can do that.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"This has changed the way that developers are looking at usage of third-party libraries, upfront. It's changing our model of development and our culture of development to ensure that there is more thought being put into the usage of third-party libraries."

"The time it saves us is on the order of one US-based FTE, a security person at an average pay level, and at a bare minimum Contrast helps us like that resource; it's like having a CISSP guy, in the US, on our payroll."

"The most valuable feature is the continuous monitoring aspect: the fact that we don't have to wait for scans to complete for the tool to identify vulnerabilities. They're automatically identified through developers' business-as-usual processes."

"One of the key takeaways is that in order to have a secure application, you cannot rely on just the pentest, vulnerability assessments, and the periodicity of the reviews; you need the real-time feedback on that, and Contrast Assess offers that."

"I am impressed with the product's identification of alerts and vulnerabilities."

"Assess has brought our development time down because it helps create code the first time."

"In our most critical applications, we have a deep dive in the code evaluation, which was something we usually did with periodic vulnerability assessments, code reviews, etc. Now, we have real time access to it. It's something that has greatly enhanced our code's quality. We have actually embedded a KPI in regards to the improvement of our code shell. For example, Contrast provides a baseline where libraries and the usability of the code are evaluated, and they produce a score. We always aim to improve that score. On a quarterly basis, we have added this to our KPIs."

"Contrast Security Assess has positively impacted my organization by providing more control over secure software development."

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"As far as static analysis information is concerned, we use most of the information that is available in order to determine whether or not we might be dealing with a malware variant. This includes information that is related to Java rules. This is also related to malware families indicated or specific malicious software variants that are labeled by name."

"The automated static analysis of malware is the most valuable feature. Its detection abilities are very good. It hits all of the different platforms out there, platforms that see the items in the wild."

"It offers reports on a great many more file types than the other analysis solutions we have. It can give us a more in-depth analysis and better reporting on a larger number of file types. It also gives us a more comprehensive score on a number of things as well, and that's why we're using it as a front-end filter. It gives us more information... It's valuable because of its depth of information, as well as the breadth it gives us. There aren't a lot of tools that cover all of the different file types."

"ReversingLabs has a large sample size."

"We have complete faith that it can do that for us, and can do it at scale."

"As far as the availability of the content is generally concerned and the number of malicious programs that can be looked up in the repository, these are very extensive."

"As far as the malware repository is concerned, it's extensive. It's a good source for finding samples, where we are unable to find them on other channels or by leveraging other sources."

"We had nothing in the environment to do such analysis, so it's been a savior in many ways."

Cons

"Contrast's ability to support upgrades on the actual agents that get deployed is limited. Our environment is pretty much entirely Java. There are no updates associated with that. You have to actually download a new version of the .jar file and push that out to your servers where your app is hosted. That can be quite cumbersome from a change-management perspective."

"Personalization of the board and how to make it appealing to an organization is something that could be done on their end. The reports could be adaptable to the customer's preferences."

"Regarding Contrast Security Assess's AI capabilities, I think they are missing a huge opportunity because they could lead the way in automatic testing and AI security testing, but currently, they do not offer this functionality, which is a shame."

"To instrument an agent, it has to be running on a type of application technology that the agent recognizes and understands. It's excellent when it works. If we're using an application that is using an unsupported technology, then we can't instrument it at all. We do use PHP and Contrast presently doesn't support that, although it's on their roadmap. My primary hurdle is that it doesn't support all of the technologies that we use."

"I do find that here and there with Contrast Security Assess there are user interface issues, particularly with how they work with libraries."

"Their level of support and troubleshooting for the product is limited because of how they handle troubleshooting. It's done through a log file that's very cumbersome to work with."

"I think Contrast can also integrate with some AI tools and provide chat features if possible, so in case we have any more questions, we can chat with that chatbot and get remediations, which I believe would be a better enhancement to Contrast."

"The solution should provide more details in the section where it shows that third-party libraries have CVEs or some vulnerabilities."

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"The product support could be better at times. Sometimes, the resources that they provide could be of higher quality."

"We would really like further integration with our threat intelligence platform, which is called ThreatConnect. We would also really like further integrations with an endpoint protection product we use called Tanium. The reason I mentioned both of these is that ReversingLabs claims to have extensive integrations with both of them, but they did not work for us."

"I would like to see if we could do a little bit more of bulk uploading of hash sets. Right now, I can only do them individually."

"While the company is very helpful, it would be very much appreciated to have extensive proof of concept scripts for the different APIs available, though not for all the APIs that we have purchased. Respective scripts are available, but those scripts which are available are typically not of very high quality."

"The solution needs to improve integrations."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For what it offers, it's a very reasonable cost. The way that it is priced is extremely straightforward. It works on the number of applications that you use, and you license a server. It is something that is extremely fair, because it doesn't take into consideration the number of requests, etc. It is only priced based on the number of onboarded applications. It suits our model as well, because we have huge traffic. Our number of applications is not that large, so the pricing works great for us."

"I like the per-application licensing model... We just license the app and we look at different vulnerabilities on that app and we remediate within the app. It's simpler."

"You only get one license for an application. Ours are very big, monolithic applications with millions of lines of code. We were able to apply one license to one monolithic application, which is great. We are happy with the licensing. Pricing-wise, they are industry-standard, which is fine."

"It's a tiered licensing model. The more you buy, as you cross certain quantity thresholds, the pricing changes. If you have a smaller environment, your licensing costs are going to be different than a larger environment... The licensing is primarily per application. An application can be as many agents as you need. If you've got 10 development servers and 20 production servers and 50 QA servers, all of those agents can be reporting as a single application that utilizes one license."

"The solution is expensive."

"The good news is that the agent itself comes in two different forms: the unlicensed form and the licensed form. Unlicensed gives use of that software composition analysis for free. Thereafter, if you apply a license to that same agent, that's when the instrumentation takes hold. So one of my suggestions is to do what we're doing: Deploy the agent to as many applications as possible, with just the SCA feature turned on with no license applied, and then you can be more choosy and pick which teams will get the license applied."

"The product's pricing is low. I would rate it a two out of ten."

"We have a yearly contract based on the number of queries and malicious programs which can be processed."

"Currently, the license number of lookups that we purchased has not been reached yet, because the integration has only recently been completed. However, our usage is expected and planned to increase over the next couple of months."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	10

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Contrast Security Assess?

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What needs improvement with Contrast Security Assess?

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Also Known As

Contrast Assess

ReversingLabs Titanium, ReversingLabs secure.software

Overview

Contrast Security Assess is an IAST platform known for accurate vulnerability detection. It integrates into development workflows, offering real-time insights into security issues with minimal false positives, supporting legacy applications and enhancing code security visibility.

Designed to integrate seamlessly into DevOps workflows, Contrast Security Assess automates real-time vulnerability detection and reduces false positives through its powerful IAST features. By continuously monitoring vulnerabilities, it provides a robust option for securing legacy applications and identifying vulnerabilities without lengthy scans. This cloud-hosted platform supports numerous programming languages, making it versatile for security testing across enterprise environments. Users benefit from detailed reports that pinpoint exact code locations requiring remediation, enhancing speed and efficiency in addressing security concerns.

What are the key features of Contrast Security Assess?

IAST Technology: Delivers accurate vulnerability detection with reduced false positives.
Seamless Integration: Integrates into development processes, supporting real-time vulnerability detection.
Open Source Security: Analyzes third-party libraries for vulnerabilities.
Continuous Monitoring: Provides valuable insights with real-time security feedback for developers.
API Interface: Enhances operational efficiency and streamlining with minimal false positives.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Enhanced Security Visibility: Offers comprehensive insights across application environments.
Speed and Efficiency: Quick identification and remediation of vulnerabilities accelerate development.
Operational Streamlining: Seamless integration into DevOps workflows improves productivity.
Legacy Application Support: Effective for securing existing applications with ongoing monitoring.

Companies in industries requiring high levels of application security, such as finance and healthcare, implement Contrast Security Assess for its ability to enhance visibility and detect vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle. Its seamless integration with DevOps processes makes it ideal for environments that prioritize agility while maintaining stringent security standards.

Contrast Security

ReversingLabs delivers a cutting-edge solution for cybersecurity experts, specializing in advanced threat detection and response. It is trusted by industries focused on maintaining high security standards with its innovative use of technology.

ReversingLabs provides comprehensive support for identifying and mitigating threats using a robust intelligence platform. Its unique approach integrates threat detection with automated analysis tools, enhancing organizations' security frameworks. The transparency and depth in tracking files and binaries ensure that users have a clear understanding of potential issues in software and files. With an emphasis on speed and accuracy, it ensures threats are managed before they escalate.

What are the key features of ReversingLabs?

Threat Intelligence Platform: Integrates detailed malware analysis for proactive security measures.
Automated Analysis Tools: Speeds up threat detection and provides in-depth insights.
Comprehensive Data Management: Simplifies complex datasets for enhanced threat recognition.
Open Integration: Smoothly integrates with existing security infrastructures.

What benefits or ROI can users find in ReversingLabs?

Enhanced Security Capabilities: Strengthens defenses against emerging threats before damage occurs.
Efficiency in Detection: Reduces response time through rapid analysis and identification.
Cost Reduction: Minimizes resource allocation by automating the threat management process.
Scalability: Easily expands with growing security needs without added complexity.

ReversingLabs is widely implemented in industries such as finance and healthcare, where data protection is critical. Financial institutions utilize its threat detection to safeguard against data breaches, while healthcare providers rely on it to maintain patient confidentiality and protect sensitive information from cyber threats.

Sample Customers

Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.

Financial services, healthcare, government, manufacturing, oil & gas, telecommunications, information technology

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