

Checkmarx One and Wiz are key competitors in the application and cloud security space. Wiz appears to have the upper hand due to its contextual risk evaluation and efficient cloud-native deployment strategy.
Features: Checkmarx One provides robust static application security testing, comprehensive scanning for both compiled and uncompiled code, and integration with key repositories. It also offers language support that aids developers by providing code analysis without requiring compilation. Wiz is noted for its contextual risk evaluation, using its Security Graph to prioritize remediation efforts. Additionally, it specializes in addressing cloud-specific security gaps through automated attack path analysis and quickly protects vulnerable assets.
Room for Improvement: Checkmarx One users report issues with false positives and seek expanded language support along with more flexible licensing. It also faces criticisms for complex custom rule setups and high resource demands. Wiz needs enhanced reporting, better logging integrations, and improved executive dashboards. Users also mention the need for enhanced container security and risk assessment capabilities.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Checkmarx One offers on-premises and hybrid cloud setups which accommodate various infrastructure needs but can be resource-intensive. Wiz offers efficient public cloud deployment, reducing the need for complex setups. Checkmarx provides quality technical support but has been noted for occasional delays, whereas Wiz is praised for responsive and proactive customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Checkmarx One is relatively costly with a complex licensing model that might benefit from flexibility; however, users often justify its cost with its broad feature set and improved security capabilities. Wiz's pricing model is simpler, though still among the higher range. Its ROI is often offset by cloud security features, with users finding value in enhanced security oversight despite the cost.
Overall, between the fast scanning, automation, automatic reporting, and easy detection, it has reduced manual effort enough that we did not need an extra reviewer, even as our codebase or team size grew.
Based on my interactions with the clients, I can tell that there is a return on investment because if something is not profitable and it's not helping to save costs or vulnerabilities, clients wouldn't come back to renew their license year after year.
We have seen ROI from Wiz and we continued to see value in Wiz.
We estimate a cost reduction of around 35% to 50%, or even more, due to consolidating our security management into one platform.
I have seen a return on investment with Wiz by reducing our budget spent on other tools, saving time, and needing fewer employees.
If you raise a support case with Checkmarx, it is handled smoothly.
The customer support team is amazing and they provide on-phone call, email support, and on-website support.
I have relied on Checkmarx One customer support hundreds of times for several things, and Checkmarx One support is very proactive and very responsive.
On a scale from 1 to 10, I would give Wiz's support a 10.
The vendor was readily available to assist us over calls, clarifying both technical aspects and theoretical insights.
We have also surfaced feature requests or changes, and they have implemented those and rolled those out within a few weeks.
Approximately four billion lines of code are being scanned monthly.
Since it is cloud-based, the infrastructure and PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS are taken care of by the cloud marketplace.
Checkmarx One's scalability has changed my organization because the strong collaboration between the development and security team helps us to do things much faster.
We have deployed Wiz in three organizations on AWS, each with approximately 70 to 80 accounts, totaling more than 120 accounts.
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Our environment quadrupled in size. We didn’t have to make any adjustments or configuration changes; it just accommodated the growth.
I would rate the stability of this solution a nine on a scale of 1 to 10 where one is low stability and 10 is high.
Checkmarx One is often down when the cloud provider experiences issues.
The stability of Wiz has been good, with no downtime, bugs, or glitches.
Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight to nine out of ten.
The solution is very stable.
Integration into the IDE being used would be beneficial so that code does not need to be uploaded to the website and an IDE-friendly report could be generated.
It could suggest how the code base is written and automatically populate the source code with three different solution options to choose from.
If you can improve the speed optimization, it takes around 30 to 40 minutes for checking a build. If you can make it within five minutes or 10 minutes, that would be great.
We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately.
One significant area for improvement would be increasing automation. While they excel at identifying issues, we need assistance in minimizing the human hours required for tasks.
We need an agent that can be installed, or that can overview all the containers and Kubernetes so that it can detect malicious activities that are happening in them.
For a small team under 50 developers, normal expenses come under 30 to 60K.
Due to the number of years I've implemented Checkmarx One, there are rebates and discounts from the OEM which makes it a lot more profitable.
The pricing should be reasonable, matching what we are paying for.
We are paying 250k per year.
In some cases, it has a very aggressive price, so very cheap.
I don’t think there’s anyone else out there offering the same level, scale, or efficiency.
Since replacing the previous tool, SAST and SCA scans are conducted in a couple of minutes instead of hours or days.
The best features Checkmarx One offers, over the past years, include broad language and technical support that Checkmarx provides, covering most languages.
Checkmarx One has positively impacted our organization as we tend to find vulnerabilities very early in the development cycle.
The feature leads to minimal false positives and a low volume of alerts, which is highly valuable for our operations.
It's highly customizable, allowing us to manage many custom features effectively.
Regarding compliance and governance, Wiz streamlines our vulnerability management to meet specific needs effectively.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Wiz | 6.6% |
| Checkmarx One | 1.3% |
| Other | 92.1% |


| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 32 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 9 |
| Large Enterprise | 46 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 9 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 8 |
| Large Enterprise | 20 |
Checkmarx One is an enterprise cloud-native application security platform focused on providing cross-tool, correlated results to help AppSec and developer teams prioritize where to focus time and resources.
Checkmarx One offers comprehensive application scanning across the SDLC:
Checkmarx One provides everything you need to secure application development from the first line of code through deployment and runtime in the cloud. With an ever-evolving set of AppSec engines, correlation and prioritization features, and AI capabilities, Checkmarx One helps consolidate expanding lists of AppSec tools and make better sense of results. Its capabilities are designed to provide an improved developer experience to build trust with development teams and ensure the success of your AppSec program investment.
Wiz is a highly efficient solution for data security posture management (DSPM), with a 100% API-based approach that provides quick connectivity and comprehensive scans of platform configurations and workloads. The solution allows companies to automatically correlate sensitive data with relevant cloud context, such as public exposure, user identities, entitlements, and vulnerabilities.This integration enables them to understand data accessibility, configuration, usage, and movement within their internal environments.
Wiz's Security Graph delivers automated alerts whenever risks emerge, allowing teams to prioritize and address the most critical issues before they escalate into breaches. Furthermore, Wiz ensures rapid and agentless visibility into critical data across various repositories, enabling organizations to easily determine the location of their data assets.
Wiz provides various features in the following categories:
Agentless Scanning: The solution can scan every layer of a cloud environment without requiring agents, managing the entire process and providing comprehensive visibility.
Workflow Integration: Users can create customized workflows within Wiz to identify and assign actions based on urgency, integrating them with ticketing systems for quick and efficient remediation.
Vulnerability Management: Wiz's vulnerability management modules provide detailed analytics and visibility across cloud systems, streamlining the manual process of vulnerability discovery. The automated attack path analysis helps identify risks and trace potential points of exposure, allowing users to understand and mitigate them effectively and proactively.
CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management): Wiz's CSPM module offers instant visibility into high-level risks to an enterprise’s cloud environment, covering all accounts without the need for agents.
Out-of-the-Box Reporting and Custom Queries: The service supports comprehensive reporting with asset context, allowing users to perform complex custom queries on the solution’s user-friendly interface.
Automation Roles and Dashboards: The solution facilitates automation by providing essential roles and dedicated dashboards that enable teams to understand security information quickly, even those with limited expertise.
Contextual Risk Evaluation: The service contextualizes the various components contributing to an issue, providing a risk evaluation framework that helps prioritize remediation efforts.
Security Graph and Visibility: Wiz's security graph offers visibility across the entire organization, even with multiple accounts, enabling users to understand their environment and assets effectively.
Wiz offers the following benefits:
Comprehensive agentless scanning
Effective identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities
Streamlined vulnerability management
Robust reporting capabilities and customizable queries
Enhanced automation and role-based access control
Prioritized risk evaluation for efficient remediation
Security posture across multiple accounts
Kamran Siddique, VP Information Security at boxed.com, remarks his company has seen a ROI while using Wiz, as it simplifies the process by integrating multiple useful tools into one solution.
According to a Senior Security Architect at Deliveroo, Wiz has given their company a fresh approach to vulnerability management, as Wiz's native integrations are extremely useful and paramount to the operational success of their platform.
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