Checkmarx
Security in the Organizational DNA

With the advent of advanced digital technologies, software has taken the world by storm, enabling organizations to streamline their operations and drive growth. On the flip side, the relentless software adoption has led to security vulnerabilities, pushing an organization into jeopardy. While several security solutions promise to provide foolproof security, most of them act as a check box and don’t necessarily drill deeper into finding suspicious elements lurking in a business environment. The consequences of an inefficient security solution are far greater and more damaging for an academic institution or a government agency, which is house to critical public data. Any compromise of government systems can spell doom for a nation. Amid the rising cases of targeted attacks in the wake of COVID-19, organizations need next-generation solutions to drive services efficiency, build trust with the target audience, and reduce costs that would otherwise be spent on damage control (compliance penalty and others).

To derive maximum value out of software, security cannot be an extra layer but has to be integrated into the software development process from the ground up. Turning this into reality is Checkmarx, an innovative software security solutions provider for modern enterprise software development. Trusted by most Fortune 100 companies, Checkmarx brings efficient technologies to the table to combat security risks comprehensively. Checkmarx’s Software Security Platform is designed to work with DevOps practices for improved static and interactive application security testing and software composition analysis.

The company also supports developer application security awareness and training programs to reduce and remediate the risk caused due to software vulnerabilities.

At the core, Checkmarx’s Software Security Platform brings unified standards for enhanced software security. The platform oversees Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST), and Software Composition Analysis (SCA). Covering both private cloud and on-premises solutions, it ensures clients can start securing their code immediately, rather than going through long processes of adapting their infrastructure to a single implementation method.

To transform the standard for secure application development, Checkmarx provides several key capabilities. The Checkmarx Static Application Security Testing (CxSAST) is an enterprise-grade static analysis solution that can identify security vulnerabilities and weaknesses in custom code. Without having to be reconfigured, CxSAST can understand and support more than 22 coding and scripting languages and frameworks.

Open-source software and third-party libraries are known to have weak security. To address such issues, Checkmarx Software Composition Analysis (CxSCA), a software composition analysis solution, enables development and security teams to identify security risks present in the code of open-source software and third-party libraries. Users can identify and prioritize open source vulnerabilities, generate an inventory of open source components and dependencies in use, and evaluate the risk of open source license non-compliance.

The time to release the software remains high despite the growing market demands for faster availability, and one of the main reasons for the delay in testing the software for vulnerabilities. Against this backdrop, Checkmarx Interactive Application Security Testing (CxIAST) can help. CxIAST addresses the software vulnerability issue by automating the detection of vulnerabilities on running applications using existing functional testing components. CxIAST fully integrates with a Static Application Security Testing solution and offers query language to that end.

Developer teams are increasingly looking for effective solutions to mitigate the security risks, and Checkmarx steps up to their needs. The company helps clients strike a safe balance between service personalization and data security by empowering developer teams to raise application security standards to the right level without disrupting delivery schedules. Checkmarx continues to offer more intelligent solutions to its growing clientele and add more value to its business.