Company is Placed Furthest for Completeness of Vision

Checkmarx, a global leader in application security testing solutions, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST)¹. This marks the company’s seventh year as a Leader.

Of the 16 vendors evaluated, Checkmarx placed furthest for Completeness of Vision, which assesses a vendor's Innovation, Market Understanding, Marketing Strategy, Offering (Product) Strategy, Business Model and Vertical/Industry Strategy. Checkmarx One provides a unified and AI-powered platform that spans code (SAST, API, DAST), supply chain (SCA, SBOM, Malicious, Repo and Secrets) and cloud infrastructure (Container, IAC), with SecOps partner integrations (Wiz, Sysdig, Crowdstrike, Uptycs, and more) to address a full range of customers’ AppSec needs.

“We believe being named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant Application Security Testing for the seventh time highlights our ongoing commitment to innovation and customer success,” said Sandeep Johri, chief executive officer of Checkmarx. “In our view, placing furthest for Completeness of Vision reflects our ability to anticipate future needs while helping organizations secure the applications driving their digital transformation.”

“We feel this recognition affirms our developer-centric approach to application security,” said Jonathan Rende, chief product officer for Checkmarx. “We have no doubt that our scores in DevSecOps enablement and customer-facing application security show how customers benefit from our AI-driven innovation, broad coverage, and seamless integration into modern development workflows.”

Since its release in December 2021, the Checkmarx One platform has achieved rapid adoption, now scanning more than 800 billion lines of code monthly for more than 850 enterprise customers and tens of thousands of developers who employ the technology to secure their organizations daily.

Over the past year, Checkmarx has continued to expand its platform with significant innovations, including the launch of the AI Assist family of agents, designed to help developers and security teams work smarter and faster. The first in the family, Checkmarx One Developer Assist, became generally available in August 2025, providing developers with real-time, AI-driven guidance directly in their workflows to remediate vulnerabilities more effectively. In fact, Checkmarx was named a Representative Provider in the 2025 Gartner® Innovation Insight: AI Code Security Assistants² report. Developers can access Developer Assist from within popular Integrated Development Environments (IDE) including Windsurf by Cognition, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, with more on the way.

Customers are already seeing measurable results from the Checkmarx One platform. In a recent case study, Best Buy highlighted how Checkmarx’s Application Security Testing (AST) solution delivered substantial business value by improving developer productivity, reducing security alert noise by 80%, and enabling better focus on critical vulnerabilities within their complex software development lifecycle.

The 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST) will be available on Checkmarx’s website to learn more about what to look for in an AST vendor.

¹Gartner^®, Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing, Jason Gross et al., October 6, 2025

²Gartner^® Innovation Insight: AI Coding Assistants, By Dionisio Zumerle, Mark Horvath, Manjunath Bhat., 29 Aug 2025

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About Checkmarx

Checkmarx is the leader in cloud-native, agentic application security, delivering enterprise-grade protection while lowering engineering costs and accelerating development velocity. The Checkmarx One platform scans trillions of lines of code each year for companies around the world, cutting vulnerability density by more than half. Its autonomous security agents detect and counter AI-driven threats across the SDLC, providing prevention-first protection for legacy, modern, and AI-generated code at enterprise scale. Follow Checkmarx on LinkedIn, YouTube, and X.

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Leaders in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST) include Checkmarx, who placed furthest for Completeness of Vision.