In 2024, 92% of data breaches involved a vulnerability in an application — not the network perimeter, not the firewall. The application. Application security is no longer a specialist discipline that lives in a separate team. It has become the defining discipline of modern software engineering.
Yet most organisations still treat AppSec as a phase that happens after development — a penetration test before a major release, a compliance checkbox. This approach is slow, expensive, and broken. Checkmarx was built to fix it.
The Cost of Late-Stage Security
Fixing a vulnerability in production costs 30x more than fixing it during development. The average time to identify and contain an application breach is 277 days. The average cost: $4.88 million. These are not abstract statistics — they represent real business outcomes that security-first organisations are avoiding today while their peers scramble after the fact.
The core problem: When security testing happens at the end of the SDLC, it creates friction, delays releases, and produces a waterfall of findings that overwhelms developers. DevSecOps is the answer — but only if your tools can move at developer speed.
What is Checkmarx One?
Checkmarx One is a unified, cloud-native Application Security Platform combining SAST, SCA, DAST, API security, IaC security, and container security in a single platform. The key insight: vulnerabilities don't live in isolation. A flaw in your code, combined with an outdated dependency, exposed through an unprotected API — that's how real attacks happen. Checkmarx Fusion correlates findings across all dimensions to surface real risk, not theoretical noise.
SAST: Finding Bugs in 30+ Languages at Developer Speed
Checkmarx SAST supports 30+ programming languages including Java, .NET, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, PHP, Kotlin, and Swift. Incremental scanning analyses only changed code on every PR — developers get results before the code review is finished. The false-positive rate is among the lowest in the industry, meaning findings get fixed rather than suppressed.
// Language: Java | CWE-89 | Severity: HIGH
// Vulnerable code:
String query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = " + userId;
stmt.executeQuery(query); // ← CX: userId flows unsanitised into SQL
// Data flow: HTTP param → userId → query → executeQuery()
// Fix: Use PreparedStatement with parameterised queries
SCA: Open Source Risk and SBOM Generation
Modern applications are 70–90% open-source code. Checkmarx SCA scans all dependencies across package managers (Maven, npm, pip, NuGet, Go modules) against the latest CVE databases. It generates SBOM reports in SPDX and CycloneDX formats for SEBI CSCRF, CERT-In, and supply chain compliance requirements. Auto-fix PRs reduce remediation time from days to minutes.
API Security: The Attack Surface You Probably Aren't Testing
APIs are the fastest-growing attack surface — OWASP API Security Top 10 documents the most critical API vulnerabilities, yet most organisations have no systematic way to test their entire API inventory. Checkmarx discovers and tests APIs automatically, including shadow and zombie APIs that exist outside your known inventory but are still reachable by attackers.
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- GitHub Actions / GitLab CI: Scan runs automatically on every pull request; results posted as inline code review comments
- Jenkins: Native Checkmarx plugin with configurable quality gates — fail builds on critical findings
- Jira / Azure DevOps: Auto-create security tickets for critical findings with full triage data and remediation guidance
- IDE plugins: IntelliJ, VS Code, Eclipse — developers see findings as they code, not after they commit
Building Maturity: From Tool to Programme
Checkmarx isn't just a scanner — it's the foundation of an AppSec programme. The platform tracks your security posture over time, measures team-level performance, and produces the metrics that CISOs need to demonstrate programme ROI to the board. Start with SAST, add SCA as open-source risk grows, layer in API security as your API surface expands. The platform scales with your maturity.
The organisations that win at application security aren't the ones with the biggest security teams. They're the ones that build security into the development process itself — making every developer a security stakeholder. Checkmarx makes that possible at enterprise scale.