Invicti (formerly Netsparker) vs. Checkmarx

Comprehensive vulnerability coverage with Invicti

For DevOps and DevSecOps organizations that need deeper coverage and more scalability, Invicti outpaces Checkmarx to provide robust support for environments that require flexibility and scalability—all on a single platform that’s easy to navigate. Whether large businesses or small businesses, that level of control is crucial for any organization with stringent compliance requirements, security policies, and strict procedures for vulnerability scanning that protect sensitive data. 

With Invicti’s solution, organizations gain:

• Data sovereignty and control: Sensitive data stays within your network, providing peace of mind for industries like finance and healthcare that need secure code.
• Consistent performance: Invicti utilizes predictive analytics to help you scan where it matters most for more consistent, accurate performance. 
• Fewer false positives: While Checkmarx requires hands-on adjustments for false positives, Invicti Security utilizes Proof-Based Scanning to drastically reduce false positive results. 
• Seamless integration: Invicti has what security and development teams need all in one platform, with tools that integrate directly into workflows so you don’t miss a beat while fixing security vulnerabilities. 

While Checkmarx is built to deliver a hodgepodge DAST solution with other puzzle-piece offerings, it has a narrower field of view and its security tools don’t offer those quick, accurate scans. Selecting a comprehensive and encompassing solution like Invicti, with easy setup and integration that pushes more accurate results, means security is more impactful and easier to embed into the organization.   

All-in-one Invicti platform vs. Checkmarx legacy SAST

Invicti simplifies security with an integrated platform that unites dynamic application security (AppSec) testing, API discovery, and vulnerability management. This single-platform approach contrasts with the ease of use of Checkmarx, which requires organizations to integrate separate tools, increasing operational complexity and cost​​, and reducing scalability. 

Advantages of Invicti’s all-in-one platform include:

• Unified visibility: The ability to seamlessly scan both web applications and APIs in a single interface reduces blind spots in your attack surface for more secure code.
• Streamlined processes: Centralized management eliminates the need to juggle multiple tools, cutting down on overhead and confusion for large and small businesses. 
• Automation with accuracy: Invicti’s Predictive Risk Scoring feature helps you determine which applications pose the greatest risk so that you can prioritize scans and remediation accurately, without impacting DevOps. 

By comparison, the modular approach from Checkmarx and other legacy scanners can lead to fragmented workflows and higher risk of overlooked vulnerabilities due to disjointed processes. Invicti delivers everything you need in automation to keep your web apps and APIs secure without delaying development, and without frustrating the team. 

Invicti does away with the uncertainty and low user trust that plague less advanced scanners. Identified vulnerabilities are assigned accurate technical severity ratings to aid prioritization, reduce risk exposure, and shorten time-to-fix. Developers automatically get actionable tickets with full technical details and guidance, and submitted fixes can be automatically rescanned to ensure that vulnerabilities are fixed correctly and permanently. And you can use the built-in vulnerability management functionality or integrate with your existing workflows to handle security vulnerabilities in a way that works best for your development and security teams.

A step up from Checkmarx to real-world vulnerability simulations with Invicti

Invicti is an ideal choice for organizations transitioning from a single testing type and looking to increase their depth of coverage because it’s built on foundational DAST, which provides an outside-in view of your web applications and APIs. A well-rounded approach is important; while SAST identifies potential issues in the codebase, DAST confirms their exploitability in the running environment. 

This helps eliminate theoretical risks, ensuring development teams can focus on real and impactful vulnerabilities. Software composition analysis detects vulnerabilities in third-party libraries and dependencies to secure open source code, while container security detects vulnerabilities in container images–ensuring those corners of your environment are well-covered. All of these tools work in tandem on a single platform to make sure your security is buttoned up. 

Blanketing SAST, IAST, SCA, Container Security, and API Security over your code, Invicti’s DAST-centric platform provides:

• Real-world simulation: Invicti is able to test running applications and APIs as they are deployed, mimicking attacker behavior​​ so that security teams have a realistic view of their threats. 
• Holistic security: From legacy systems to modern microservices, Invicti secures the entire threat landscape in ways that a disjointed tool cannot, crawling any web application or API regardless of framework. 

• Comprehensive application scanning: Go deeper than SAST alone ever can, getting that dynamic outside-in view of your applications, covering API Security, and making sure every corner of your threat environment has been checked. 
• Scalability and support: Invicti delivers enterprise-grade performance and 24/7 support, ensuring rapid response to evolving threats and automation for seamless security. 
• Deeper insights and threat intelligence: Get proactive with Predictive Risk Scoring to hone-in on your riskiest applications first, then scan and reduce false positives with Proof-Based Scanning. 

By opting for Invicti’s modernized platform that delivers comprehensive AppSec testing and risk management over a legacy solution, organizations benefit from a scalable, accurate, and future-ready security that removes the limitations of other tools while uniting functionality in one cohesive system​​​.

When looking at your web security posture, having a continuous and thorough vulnerability testing process is crucial to find and eliminate vulnerabilities that could result in a data breach or worse. Unlike Qualys WAS, Invicti is designed with automation in mind and is constantly updated with new and improved security checks, so you can run the Invicti scanner on a schedule to minimize the risk of attackers finding an exploitable weakness first. The same Invicti solution you use for external web application scanning can be automated into your software development lifecycle (SDLC), doing double duty in web security and secure development.

Why choose Invicti over Checkmarx? Unified security backed by an industry-leading DAST solution

Many other security vendors treat DAST as an afterthought, when in reality, having a DAST-backed approach to AppSec is a step towards a mature strategy. Invicti’s mature and full-feature unified security platform, built on market-leading DAST, integrates directly into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and incorporates nearly two decades of experience from building the market-leading Acnuetix and Netsparker scanners. 

Invicti’s full-scope approach to security testing—which includes dynamic application security testing, static application security testing, and interactive application security testing—delivers comprehensive, customizable coverage proven to keep modern web applications and APIs secure, at scale. 

Organizations that choose Invicti get best-in-class tools and customization that means accurate security checks for major web vulnerability classes like SQL injection (SQLi) and cross-site scripting (XSS), automated vulnerability confirmation with fewer false positives, over 50 built-in integrations that work with popular issue trackers and CI/CD pipelines, and the flexibility to deploy as a cloud-based system, on-prem, or a combination of both. With Invicti, it’s more than just DAST—you get the full package.

Designed with SDLC integration in mind and incorporating nearly two decades of experience from building the Acunetix and Netsparker scanners, Invicti delivers a DAST tool that’s been proven to work with modern web apps and APIs, in agile development workflows, and at an enterprise scale:

• Accurate security checks for all major web vulnerability classes, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), server-side request forgery (SSRF), and more (including out-of-band detections)
• Automatic vulnerability confirmations with proof-based scanning to safely and confidently indicate exploitable issues
• Over 50 built-in integrations with popular issue trackers such as Jira, CI/CD pipelines, vulnerability management tools, and collaboration platforms for workflow automation
• Support for popular authentication methods (including SSO with OAuth2) for maximum test coverage across web apps and APIs
• Optional server-side agents to add interactive application security testing (IAST) and dynamic software composition analysis (SCA)

• Available as a cloud-based SaaS solution, an on-premises installation, or a combination of both (central SaaS with locally-installed scan agents)