Checkmarx

Securing applications and cloud environments is a necessity. The partnership between Checkmarx and Wiz addresses the critical need of end-to-end security from code to cloud by combining Checkmarx’ application security expertise with Wiz’s Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). The bidirectional integration results in a comprehensive security approach, protecting the first line of code to deployment and runtime in the cloud. 

Integration Benefits

• End-to-End Visibility Across Code and Cloud 

Seamlessly map cloud assets like clusters, pods, and container images to their corresponding source code repositories, enabling security teams to trace vulnerabilities identified in Checkmarx and uncover potential attack paths that could expose critical assets running in the cloud identified by Wiz. By bridging the gap between code and cloud, teams can assess and mitigate threats with comprehensive context from development to deployment. 

• Prioritized, Contextual Risk Remediation 

Gain actionable insights by correlating Checkmarx SAST findings with Wiz’s risk analysis and network exposure data. This integration empowers teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitable risks—such as internet exposure or potential paths to sensitive data—focusing remediation on the most critical threats. 

• Unified Security from Development to Cloud 

Strengthen security across the software development lifecycle by integrating Checkmarx’s code-level findings with Wiz’s contextual cloud risk analysis. This collaboration helps security and development teams break down silos, detect and prioritize vulnerabilities, and resolve issues before they reach production environments. 

Better Together

The integration of Checkmarx and Wiz provides security teams with top-down visibility from infrastructure through application code, creating a unified security posture across the entire stack. By bringing Checkmarx’s SAST findings into Wiz, teams can correlate code-level vulnerabilities with cloud context—such as network exposure and potential paths to sensitive assets—enabling more effective prioritization and remediation. This enriched visibility streamlines collaboration between development and security teams, ensuring that critical vulnerabilities are identified, contextualized, and addressed efficiently across the SDLC.

As organizations accelerate development, identifying and addressing security issues early in the SDLC is increasingly challenging. While catching vulnerabilities before they reach production can save significant time and resources, security teams often lack the critical context to prioritize these issues effectively. Traditional tools struggle to link code vulnerabilities to cloud environments, leaving teams without insights into whether a vulnerability is running in production, exposed to the internet, or could lead to sensitive data exposure. This gap forces teams to sift through hundreds of alerts without knowing which issues are most critical, increasing the risk of overlooking high-priority vulnerabilities and exposing applications to significant threats in production. Organizations with complex cloud environments and cloud-native applications need robust, adaptable security solutions. Traditional vulnerability management methods are inadequate in these dynamic cloud settings, where rapid detection, prioritization, and mitigation of risks are crucial. These organizations require a way to secure applications effectively across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) and runtime environments.  

Challenge

Due to the dynamic and distributed nature of cloud-native applications and the involvement of multiple cloud service providers, traditional static security approaches often fail. Key challenges include: 

• Alert Noise and Fatigue: With traditional methods, organizations face overwhelming alerts, making it difficult to prioritize critical vulnerabilities. 

• Delayed Fixes: Pinpointing vulnerabilities and the associated developers is challenging, especially in large codebases with frequent changes. 

• Lack of Contextual Data: Many vulnerability solutions lack runtime integration, resulting in missed contextual insights that would help prioritize fixes based on real-world application behavior and exposure. 

These challenges limit the ability to respond swiftly to threats, increase alert fatigue, and make it difficult for organizations to maintain an accurate security posture. 

Solution

Checkmarx Cloud Insights provides actionable insights by correlating data across the SDLC and runtime environments, with our integration with Wiz.  

• Contextualized Vulnerability Management: By integrating runtime data with pre-deployment information, Cloud Insights reduces alert noise, highlights critical vulnerabilities, and enhances incident response. 

• Attack Path Analysis: Visualizing potential attack paths, this feature allows security teams to identify exploitable vulnerabilities in real-time, prioritize remediation, and close security gaps efficiently. 

• Prioritization through Smart Insights: By correlating vulnerabilities with their exposure in runtime, Cloud Insights enables security teams to focus on the most business-critical issues, helping them streamline operations and enhance application security.