The ADLC Security Platform That Goes Beyond Checkmarx
Cycode goes further than Checkmarx with a native engine validated on the OWASP Benchmark to deliver SAST at a 2.1% false positive rate, a Context Intelligence Graph that correlates risk across your full Agentic Development Life Cycle (ADLC), plus Cycode Maestro for remediation that closes findings rather than just surfacing them.
Agentic Remediation
Maestro orchestrates multi-agent workflows that confirm exploitability, generate code fixes and open pull requests automatically.
Proprietary SAST Accuracy
Native scan engine with a 2.1% FP rate on the OWASP Benchmark: 94% fewer false positives.
Native Engine Plus Open Orchestration
A native scan engine and a 100+ connector orchestrator via ConnectorX that ingests the tools you already run.
Context Intelligence Graph
Semantic risk graph correlating findings across code, pipelines, cloud and runtime.
AST, ASPM and SSCS Unified
SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container and supply chain security correlated in one platform.
Software Supply Chain Security
SBOM and AIBOM generation, CI/CD pipeline posture, attestation and artifact-to-runtime lineage.
Secrets Detection Across the Stack
Scans code, IaC, containers, CI/CD, Slack, Teams and collaboration platforms with NHI correlation.
Developer Remediation
AI-powered fix suggestions, bulk remediation and automated PR creation inside developer workflows.
ADLC Visibility for the AI Era
AI model inventory, AIBOM, MCP server security posture and hallucinated dependency detection.
CI/CD Security
Native pipeline posture management, attestation and poisoned pipeline detection.
Compliance and Reporting
Automated compliance controls validation, SSCS policy enforcement and no-code workflow automation.
Enterprise Scale and Backing
Gartner tier-one recognition in software supply chain security with organizational scale for multi-year commitments.
Agentic Remediation
Maestro orchestrates multi-agent workflows that confirm exploitability, generate code fixes and open pull requests automatically.
Partial - Triage Assist and Remediation Assist suggest fixes but are advisory and single-step; no multi-agent orchestration or automated PR creation.
Proprietary SAST Accuracy
Native scan engine with a 2.1% FP rate on the OWASP Benchmark: 94% fewer false positives.
Partial - Native engine across 150+ languages, but a persistent high false positive rate and no published OWASP Benchmark accuracy.
Native Engine Plus Open Orchestration
A native scan engine and a 100+ connector orchestrator via ConnectorX that ingests the tools you already run.
Partial - Nine proprietary scanners in a closed suite; limited third-party connectors and no native convergence with outside tools.
Context Intelligence Graph
Semantic risk graph correlating findings across code, pipelines, cloud and runtime.
Partial - Risk scoring is per-scanner inside Checkmarx One; no cross-platform semantic graph or ADLC-wide query engine.
AST, ASPM and SSCS Unified
SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container and supply chain security correlated in one platform.
Partial - Broad AST coverage, but risk and reporting are per-scanner rather than natively converged across the platform.
Software Supply Chain Security
SBOM and AIBOM generation, CI/CD pipeline posture, attestation and artifact-to-runtime lineage.
Partial - AI-BOM launched March 2026 covers AI assets only; no full ADLC lineage, pipeline posture or SSCS policy enforcement.
Secrets Detection Across the Stack
Scans code, IaC, containers, CI/CD, Slack, Teams and collaboration platforms with NHI correlation.
Partial - Secrets scanning is included, but collaboration platform coverage and NHI correlation are not detailed publicly.
Developer Remediation
AI-powered fix suggestions, bulk remediation and automated PR creation inside developer workflows.
Partial - Remediation Assist offers single-step fix suggestions in the IDE; no bulk remediation or automated PR creation.
ADLC Visibility for the AI Era
AI model inventory, AIBOM, MCP server security posture and hallucinated dependency detection.
Partial - AI-BOM covers MCP servers, LLMs and AI SDKs, but no hallucinated dependency detection and coverage narrower than full ADLC visibility.
CI/CD Security
Native pipeline posture management, attestation and poisoned pipeline detection.
Partial - CI/CD integration triggers scans on pipeline events; no pipeline posture management, attestation or poisoned pipeline detection.
Compliance and Reporting
Automated compliance controls validation, SSCS policy enforcement and no-code workflow automation.
Partial - Compliance reporting maps to major frameworks, but requires stitching per-scanner output with no unified no-code workflow automation.
Enterprise Scale and Backing
Gartner tier-one recognition in software supply chain security with organizational scale for multi-year commitments.
Partial - Established scale with 1,800+ customers, but private-equity owned since 2020 with no disclosed exit path for buyers signing multi-year deals.
Built for accuracy and convergence. Not just breadth.
Checkmarx covers a lot of breadth, but coverage that generates noise and lives across nine separate scanners creates work rather than closing it. Cycode gives enterprises native accuracy, a unified risk graph and agentic remediation that turns findings into fixes.
Maestro Remediates. Checkmarx Agents Assist.
Suggesting a fix is not shipping one. Cycode Maestro confirms exploitability, maps blast radius, generates code fixes, opens pull requests and closes the loop across every tool in your ADLC. Checkmarx agents advise. Maestro closes
One Native Engine, Plus Every Other Tool
Checkmarx One bundles nine proprietary scanners into a single suite, which is convenient if you standardize entirely on Checkmarx. But teams that already run other tools face a closed ecosystem with limited third-party connectors. Cycode is both a native engine and an open orchestrator: ConnectorX ingests 100+ scanner outputs, including Checkmarx itself, and correlates them in one graph. You keep what works. Cycode adds what is missing.
Supply Chain Depth, Not Just an AI Inventory
Cycode maps the full software supply chain: Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) generation, CI/CD pipeline posture, attestation and artifact-to-runtime lineage, all correlated in the Context Intelligence Graph. That is what software supply chain security compliance actually requires. Checkmarx inventories AI assets. Cycode tracks the risk they create across the ADLC.
94% fewer false positives
Cycode proprietary SAST hits a 2.1% FP rate on the OWASP Benchmark: 94% fewer false positives. When developers trust their alerts, they fix them. When they do not, findings pile up and the platform becomes shelfware. The difference is the engine, not a triage layer bolted on top of it.
Full ADLC visibility for the AI era
Cycode governs the full Agentic Development Life Cycle: AI model usage, MCP server security, hallucinated dependency detection and AI-generated code lineage, all correlated so you know who owns each risk. Checkmarx tells you what AI you have. Cycode tells you where it can hurt you.
A platform built for the long haul
Checkmarx has scale: 1,800+ customers and deep Fortune 100 penetration. That reach is real. But enterprises buying a three-year platform should ask about the next three years. Checkmarx has been private-equity owned since 2020 with no disclosed exit path, and liquidity events reshape roadmaps and pricing. Cycode pairs Gartner tier-one recognition in software supply chain security with the roadmap commitment to be the last migration you make. Scale matters. So does knowing your vendor's direction is set by the product, not by a fund's timeline.
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accurately, remediates automatically and is built to be there for the long term. See what Cycode delivers.
Trusted by the enterprises that cannot afford to get it wrong
Security leaders who evaluated their options and chose Cycode share what they found when they made the move.
"If you need a swiss army knife of tools it's a fantastic tool. I really like the amount of solutions and third party integrations Cycode supports so I can populate all results into a single place"
“Cycode was like a breadth of fresh air. It enables our engineers to handle findings more efficiently and get things done, rather than just creating a bunch of noise.”
“Cycode has helped us with visibility and surfacing the security risk that exists in our software development process.”
Recognized by the Industry's Top Analysts
IDC MarketScape:
ASPM 2025 Leader
Cycode was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Application Security Posture Management, recognizing its AI-native platform, breadth of coverage, and enterprise-grade integrations. Aikido was not included in the evaluation.
Read the ReportGartner #1 SSCS 2025
Cycode earned the top position in Gartner SSCS for 2025, recognizing its depth of coverage across secrets detection, CI/CD security, software supply chain security and pipeline integrity. Socket was not included in the SSCS evaluation.
Read the ReviewsSee Why Cycode is Loved by Our Customers
"I highly recommend Cycode to improve your code security needs."
"I have thoroughly enjoyed leveraging the platform features like secret detection, SAST, container security and SCA. My org utilizes the dashboards to assess current security gaps and detect hard-coded secrets committed by developers to improve vulnerability posture. I highly recommend Cycode to improve your code security needs"
"Cycode is one of the best platforms in the market that allows us to centralize everything in one place replacing multiple tools."
"Cycode is one of the best ASPM platforms in the market that allows us to cover our security posture end to end. Cycode centralized everything in one place replacing multiple tools."
"Every application security need centralized in a single solution."
"Cycode is a fully featured ASPM tool with every application security need centralized in a single solution. Configuration and management is simple and allows appsec engineers to work efficiently without distractions."
"Platform with comprehensive application security capabilities with streamlined workflows."
"The product offers a platform with comprehensive application security capabilities with streamlined workflows, covering and giving us visibility for our posture across key systems and allowing us to effectively close gaps and improve our security posture."
"Helping the Application Security team drive down vulnerabilities in areas that are at most risk."
"Overall it's provided me with contextual data that's helping the Application Security team drive down vulnerabilities in areas that are at most risk."
"Very strong product with a lot of capabilities in a single interface (secrets, SAST, SCA, IaC, CI/CD, cloud, container, leaks, etc.)."
"Very strong product with a lot of capabilities in a single interface (secrets, SAST, SCA, IaC, CI/CD, cloud, container, leaks, etc.). We are a very large Fortune 500 company, and Cycode has been able to easily handle our scale and complexity."
"All Purpose AppSec Platform with Top Tier Support."
"Overall, Cycode has provided a unified AppSec platform that easily integrates into the CI workflow."