Why Checkmarx

Bridging the CNAPP Security Gaps

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) often miss the mark on app security and integrations, especially with mixed cloud and on-prem setups. Checkmarx secures all apps and prioritizes insights.

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Benefits

Complete Your Security with Checkmarx

Checkmarx extends CNAPP with code-level insights, 90% noise reduction, and developer-friendly experience—ensuring complete, streamlined security.

Comprehensive Security Coverage

CNAPP solutions have traditionally focused on infrastructure and workload security, but application security is different. It requires deep code-level visibility – which only Checkmarx can provide.

Reduced Alert Noise

CNAPP solutions find security issues in your runtime environment while AppSec vendors secure development. Checkmarx correlates data to reduce alert noise by up to 90%.

Developer-Friendly Integration

CNAPP security solutions focus on infrastructure and workload security, often overlooking developers. Checkmarx integrates with more IDEs and CI/CD tools, enhancing workflows and driving DevSecOps.

Combining Insights from CNAPPs and Checkmarx

CNAPPs focus on runtime security but overlook vulnerabilities in early development stages and don’t prioritize developers. Checkmarx bridges this gap with deep code-level visibility and real-time feedback throughout the SDLC, ensuring comprehensive security from coding to production and enhancing protection against evolving threats.

Why CNAPPs Are Not Enough

CNAPPs miss critical security gaps, including code level vulnerabilities, developer integration, and protection for non-cloud applications.

Focus is on Runtime

While CNAPP solutions do a great job detecting threats during run time they miss vulnerabilities introduced during coding and testing, risking critical issues going live. Checkmarx bridges this gap by providing deep code-level visibility and real-time feedback throughout the entire development lifecycle, ensuring thorough security from early stages to production.

Infrastructure vs. Application Security

CNAPPs focus on cloud infrastructure, often neglecting key aspects of application security. With limited code scanning, they fall short. Checkmarx fills this gap by providing comprehensive code security throughout development.

Limited Code-Level Visibility

CNAPPs lack detailed code-level visibility, making it hard to detect vulnerabilities effectively with basic security tools. This leaves critical risks unaddressed. Checkmarx offers advanced code analysis with deep scanning and thorough visibility, ensuring comprehensive management of application security risks.

Not Developer Focused

CNAPPs focus on infrastructure security but are not developer-friendly, offering complex security tools with poor IDE integration. This delays vulnerability detection and resolution, leaving apps exposed. Checkmarx integrates seamlessly into developers’ workflows, enabling faster detection and remediation of issues, keeping apps secure.

Can’t Protect Non-Cloud Applications

Because they focus on cloud-native infrastructure and runtime environments, neglecting on-premises applications and leaving them vulnerable. This highlights the need for comprehensive solutions that address both cloud-native and on-premises application security. Checkmarx covers these complexities, ensuring robust security for both cloud and on-premises applications.

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What Are CNAPPs Missing?

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Table’s title or description
Feature	CNAPPs	Checkmarx
Security Approach
Security Approach	Detection and response	Prevention and remediation
Focus
Focus	Runtime security	100% focus on application security across SDLC
Security Scope
Security Scope	Infrastructure-centric	Application and IaC Security
Code-Level Visibility
Code-Level Visibility	Limited	Market-leading SAST with real-time scanning for 35+ languages and 80 frameworks.
API Security
API Security	Focus on runtime	Scanning for APIs in code, with an API-centric approach into risk
SCA
SCA	Limited language support, no AI code scanning, and poor malicious package detection	Detects 380K+ malicious packages, AI code scanning, 0% false positives per analysis
Container Security
Container Security	Monitors runtime, without remediation	Scans container images, layers, and provides remediation, runtime integration
Developer Experience
Developer Experience	Limited	Integration with developer tools and workflows offering real-time feedback in 15+ languages
Remediation Guidance
Remediation Guidance	No specific advice due to lack of code visibility	AI-powered secure coding assistant, real-time scanning, remediation, and fix location
Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud	Only secures cloud applications	Secures cloud and on-premises applications
AI Security
AI Security	AI powered remediation recommendations after the fact and NLP search engine	Investment in AI to improve productivity, real time secure code monitoring and preventing IP leakage

What Our Customers Say About Us

Learn the world’s top enterprises choose Checkmarx to secure their applications.

“We view Checkmarx as our trusted partner. They’ve elevated our security posture by consolidating our SAST, SCA, and API Security into a unified platform, Checkmarx One, enabling us to achieve vulnerability remediation, reduce noise, and benefit from strong support.”

“Incorporating Checkmarx’s technology has revolutionized our development culture. It’s more than just technology; it serves as the foundation of our security strategy, ensuring that our applications are secure by design.”

“Checkmarx One definitely checks all my boxes from a security standpoint and has a great interface that’s engaging and easy to use. Some of the solutions we considered were more complicated. With Checkmarx One, it’s easy to get right to the problem with little to no learning curve.”

“The success of our AppSec program can be directly attributed to the tooling, processes and support provided by Checkmarx managed services. Our mission revolves around providing secure and compliant lottery and gaming applications and services to our clients around the globe, and with Checkmarx SAST, SCA and associated components enhanced by their stellar service support, we deliver on this promise with confidence and certainty.”

“After nearly nine years of using Checkmarx’s SAST, CGI’s journey has been one of seamless integration and consistent satisfaction. The last three years have been particularly smooth, reflecting the solution’s reliability and our successful partnership.”

“After reviewing the Checkmarx platform, I’m not sure how Veracode is able to exist while being at a similar price point.”

“By Far The Best AppSec Tooling Decision We Have Made!!”

“We were thrilled to find Checkmarx, which helped us improve the SLA for identifying and remediating risk, reduce risk and the number of vulnerabilities, and eliminate high- and medium-risk issues.”

“Checkmarx made security team and developers life easier.”

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