Transforming Application Security: How Checkmarx's One? Platform Boosted Security for a Leading Software Development Company

Checkmarx has released its annual 'Global Pulse on Application Security' report, revealing that protecting applications is becoming more challenging than ever before. However, Checkmarx is determined to make application security development and management easier for everyone with their One? Application Security Platform. This platform includes all the necessary tools such as SAST, SCA, supply chain security, API security, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) security, and container security, which can all be triggered by a single scan. In addition, vulnerabilities can be seen and triaged in one place, and automation across applications is made easy with a single set of SDLC integrations.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, ensuring robust application security is of paramount importance for organizations. With the ever-increasing threats and vulnerabilities, businesses face significant challenges in protecting their applications and maintaining data integrity. This case study highlights how Checkmarx's One? Application Security Platform transformed the application security landscape for a leading software development company.

Company Background:

The client, a software development company specializing in cutting-edge digital solutions, faced numerous challenges in securing their applications. With a diverse range of projects and programming languages, they struggled to streamline their security processes and efficiently manage vulnerabilities across their applications.

The Checkmarx Solution:

Recognizing the need for a comprehensive and unified approach to application security, the client turned to Checkmarx and implemented the Checkmarx One? Application Security Platform. This decision proved to be a game-changer for the company's security practices.

Benefits and Outcomes:

1. Streamlined Security Processes: By integrating all essential security tools into a single platform, Checkmarx One? eliminated the need for multiple disjointed solutions. The client could trigger various security scans, including SAST, SCA, supply chain security, API security, IaC security, and container security, through a single scan, simplifying their security processes.
2. Improved Vulnerability Management: Checkmarx One? enabled the client to gain a consolidated view of all vulnerabilities across their applications. They could easily identify, triage, and prioritize vulnerabilities in a centralized dashboard, enhancing their ability to take proactive security measures.
3. Enhanced Developer Experience: The platform's integration with IDEs, feedback tools, and PR decoration made it easier for developers to fix vulnerabilities. By seamlessly incorporating security measures into their existing workflows, developers could address issues promptly, leading to faster development cycles and improved overall application security.
4. Broad Language Support: The client greatly benefited from Checkmarx's commitment to providing the broadest language support in the market. The introduction of support for Dart and Flutter, two popular client-side programming languages, allowed the client to develop modern digital experiences across platforms with confidence.
5. Comprehensive Software Composition Analysis: Checkmarx's platform offered comprehensive software composition analysis, including the detection of private packages. This enabled the client to scan and analyze both public and private packages, gaining a holistic view of their software stack's security posture.

Conclusion:

Implementing Checkmarx's One? Application Security Platform revolutionized the client's approach to application security. By streamlining their security processes, improving vulnerability management, and enhancing the developer experience, the client experienced a significant boost in their overall application security posture. With Checkmarx's broad language support and comprehensive analysis capabilities, they achieved unparalleled visibility and control over their applications' security.

With their latest Checkmarx's One platform launch, Checkmarx has introduced a number of new and updated products and capabilities across their platform. For instance, they have introduced the industry's first support for Dart and Flutter, two of the fastest-growing client-side programming languages and application development kits. They have also introduced support for private packages, which are software packages and libraries that are not publicly available. In addition, Checkmarx SCA can now scan and analyze private packages, providing organizations with a comprehensive view of their software stack.

Furthermore, Checkmarx's Exploitable Path feature is a powerful tool that combines insight from Checkmarx SAST and SCA products. This feature tells you when your proprietary code actually calls vulnerable code in an open-source package. Checkmarx has added C# to the list of supported programming languages where this feature is available.

For developers using Visual Studio Code, Checkmarx is making Checkmarx SCA available for free through their Visual Studio plugin. All developers can now scan and analyze their open-source packages for vulnerabilities.

Lastly, Checkmarx is bringing their DAST offering directly onto Checkmarx One, enabling organizations to scan their proprietary code using SAST on the same platform they use to scan their compiled applications with DAST. Automating both SAST and DAST scans as part of the SDLC allows vulnerabilities to be easily identified, triaged, and fixed using the same feedback tool integrations.

In summary, Checkmarx's One? Application Security Platform provides an easy way to manage application security development and management with all necessary tools included. Checkmarx's latest updates to their platform bring new products and capabilities such as Dart and Flutter support, private packages support, Exploitable Path for C#, SCA available for all developers in Visual Studio Code, and DAST offerings. These features enable organizations to have a comprehensive view of their software stack and easily identify and fix vulnerabilities.

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