Report
Trends, threats, and innovations shaping tomorrow’s AppSec landscape—condensed into an executive summary for security leaders and innovators.
What happens when a false sense of security meets breakneck developer velocity? The answer is reshaping the future of application security.
As AI coding becomes mainstream, this executive summary distills the key findings every security leader needs to know:
This summary highlights the strategic imperatives that CISOs, AppSec leaders, and technology executives must act on to meet this new reality. Read it now to safeguard innovation in an AI-driven development world.
Published in August 2025 by Checkmarx in partnership with Censuswide, this is a global survey of 1,519 CISOs, AppSec Managers, and software developers across the US, UK, Europe, APAC, and ANZ.
“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.”
“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.”
40%
of Fortune 100
1800+
Customers in 70 countries
75+
Languages & 100+ frameworks
6X
Leader at Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing
