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Checkmarx agentic application security software platform Combines Hybrid scanning, AI-powered agents, and unified risk intelligence across every attack surfaceattack surfaceThe exposed systems, interfaces and access points an attacker could try to use. It includes internet-facing services as well as identities, software and other reachable resources.

Summary

Checkmarx is a commercial appsec platform that combines hybrid scanning, AI-powered agents, and unified risk intelligence across every attack surface. It is positioned for application developers and sits in the appsec category, offering sast, sca, and dast capabilities. The platform runs as an agentic service. It was first launched in 2006 and has seen 5 releases within the tracking window, with the last one published 17 days ago.

Checkmarx agentic application security software platform Combines Hybrid scanning, AI-powered agents, and unified risk intelligence across every attack surface

How Checkmarx helps

Which of my SAST findings are actually exploitable versus theoretical noise?

applies AI reasoning grounded in reachability, exploitability, code context, risk context, policy, and mitigating controls to each eligible finding, marking it Confirmed or Proposed Not Exploitable so analysts review decisions instead of re-investigating context

Which of my repositories are using AI models, agents, or MCP servers I don't know about?

runs deterministic analysis across repositories to identify models, agents, MCP servers, AI libraries, and SDKs, tracing each finding to the specific file and line and generating versioned AI-BOM documentation per release

Is a coding agent about to write vulnerable code or install a risky package before it happens?

intercepts the agent's file writes and package installations through hooks and MCP, checking them against an independent AppSec layer and returning remediation guidance directly to the agent before the action takes effect

Where across my SAST, SCA, IaC, API, secrets, container, and DAST findings does the same underlying risk actually live?

correlates signals from all of those scanners and third-party tools, enriches them with exploitability, reachability, exposure, ownership, and business criticality, and surfaces the result for enforcement at the pull request stage

Can I hand a confirmed vulnerability to a developer without them having to dig up the fix themselves?

generates review-ready guidance and a suggested code change for the prioritized finding and, on supported GitHub projects, opens a separate pull request with the proposed fix for review, without merging anything automatically

Did an earlier AI triage decision on one finding apply to the same issue showing up in other scans?

propagates the triage state to identical findings retroactively across earlier scans using Similarity ID or Attack Vector ID matching, and forward into later SCA scans matched by package version and package manager

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  • Checkmarx covers 2 of the 8 vulnerability assessment methods capabilities we track.

What Checkmarx offers you

  • Built-in AI assistant1
  • Command-line interface1
Vulnerability prioritization 2 features Vulnerability assessment methods since 2026
AI Triage shipped Applies AI reasoning to assess reachability and exploitability of findings, enabling automated state changes, historical deduplication, and post-scan automation. 5 releases · 3 other sources · first seen Sep 2026

Shared capability: Vulnerability prioritization

release

  • Checkmarx adds Triage Assist (AI Triage) to evaluate whether a finding is reachable and exploitable, automatically setting a finding's state to Confirmed or Proposed Not Exploitable with reasoning visible in Risk Orchestration. What the PHP Patch Scramble Reveals About Remediation (2026-10-29) · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • AI-driven state changes are attributed to AI Assist in the Change Log with actor, timestamp, previous state, new state, severity change, and reasoning preserved on the same risk record. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • AI Triage state changes propagate forward to identical SAST findings in subsequent scans (matched by Similarity ID or Attack Vector ID) and retroactively to identical results in earlier scans, preventing duplicate verdict work. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds automated Triage Assist execution post-scan, configurable by project, branch, scanner, risk status, and severity. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds automated AI Triage at scan completion, configurable by project, branch, scanner, risk status, and severity, with administrator controls over which parameters a project team can override. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history

example

  • Trigger AI triage on a single SAST finding directly from Risk Orchestration to get an instant reachability and exploitability verdict without leaving the working view. In Checkmarx One, open Risk Orchestration > select an eligible SAST finding > in the side panel, choose 'Triage with AI'. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
  • Scope automated AI Triage to run at scan completion for high-severity SAST findings on a specific branch, so the backlog is triaged before any reviewer opens the queue. In Checkmarx One, navigate to the project settings for the target project > configure automated AI Triage scoped to branch: main, scanner: SAST, severity: High > save; after each scan completes, Risk… Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
  • Automate triage for new findings to keep backlog current without manual intervention. Configure administrator settings to enable automatic `Triage Assist` execution upon scan completion, scoped by project/branch/severity. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
Risk orchestration shipped Aggregates findings from multiple scanning types — including SAST, SCA, IaC, and API Security — into a single unified risk table. 5 releases · 2 other sources · first seen Sep 2026

Shared capability: Vulnerability prioritization

release

  • Adds Triage with AI and Remediate with AI controls in Risk Orchestration to evaluate reachability/exploitability and generate suggested fixes. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • AI-driven state changes are attributed to AI Assist in the Change Log with actor, timestamp, previous state, new state, severity change, and reasoning preserved on the same risk record. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • AI Triage state changes propagate forward to identical SAST findings in subsequent scans (matched by Similarity ID or Attack Vector ID) and retroactively to identical results in earlier scans, preventing duplicate verdict work. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds an AI Triage & Remediation dashboard reporting total triage and remediation actions, unique developers, estimated developer time saved, activity trends, triage outcomes, remediation results, and most-active projects, with filters by resource, branch, scanner, time range, tags, and groups. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Triage with AI control in the Risk Orchestration side panel to evaluate eligible SAST findings for reachability, exploitability, and sanitization coverage, automatically setting state to Confirmed or Proposed Not Exploitable.⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠ Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history

docs

  • Upcoming Multi-Tenant Version | 3.68 API Security in Risk Orchestration General Availability: October 18, 2026 Risk Orchestration now includes API Security findings alongside SAST, SCA, and IaC risks in a single unified table. seen Oct 2026 · source

example

  • Trigger AI triage on a single SAST finding directly from Risk Orchestration to get an instant reachability and exploitability verdict without leaving the working view. In Checkmarx One, open Risk Orchestration > select an eligible SAST finding > in the side panel, choose 'Triage with AI'. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
Static application security testing 1 feature Vulnerability assessment methods since 2026
SAST scanning shipped Runs static application security testing against source code using the integrated SAST engine. 9 releases · 6 other sources · first seen Aug 2026

Shared capability: Static application security testing

release 9 total

  • Checkmarx adds Fusion SAST, combining established security analysis with frontier-model reasoning and a Findings Analysis Engine that consolidates results to reduce false positives and duplicate findings, reaching an F1 score of 0.74 versus 0.64 for the Next-Gen SAST foundation.⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠ What the PHP Patch Scramble Reveals About Remediation (2026-10-29) · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Info tab in Issue view to display AI-generated triage summary, reachability analysis, and exploitability status (Confirmed or Proposed Not Exploitable). Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds automated Triage Assist execution post-scan, configurable by project, branch, scanner, risk status, and severity. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds automated AI Triage at scan completion, configurable by project, branch, scanner, risk status, and severity, with administrator controls over which parameters a project team can override. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Remediate with AI control for eligible confirmed SAST findings, generating a suggested code fix with a structured what/why/how explanation inside Remediation > AI Remediation. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Both Triage with AI and Remediate with AI actions consume Checkmarx Credits; triage does not re-run or re-charge on an identical finding, and administrators can monitor burn rate and projected depletion. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history

docs

  • Current Single-Tenant Version | 3.66 SAST Engine Upgrade to Version 9.7.7 The SAST engine in Checkmarx One has been upgraded to version 9.7.7 and will be rolled out gradualy over the following weeks. seen Oct 2026 · source

example

  • Review AI-generated reachability and exploitability analysis to validate a SAST finding's state before disposition. Navigate to Risk Orchestration > Issue view for a specific finding > Inspect the `Info` tab for the 'Attackable' assessment. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
  • Scope automated AI Triage to run at scan completion for high-severity SAST findings on a specific branch, so the backlog is triaged before any reviewer opens the queue. In Checkmarx One, navigate to the project settings for the target project > configure automated AI Triage scoped to branch: main, scanner: SAST, severity: High > save; after each scan completes, Risk… Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
  • Generate and inspect a suggested code fix for a confirmed vulnerability to accelerate remediation. In Risk Orchestration, select `Remediate with AI` on the finding > Review the proposed diff and rationale in the `Remediation` tab. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
  • Automate triage for new findings to keep backlog current without manual intervention. Configure administrator settings to enable automatic `Triage Assist` execution upon scan completion, scoped by project/branch/severity. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
  • Identify AI-generated findings in the results table. View the 'LLM Generated Result' label in the results table What Is Checkmarx Fusion? (2026-08-05) · Aug 2026 · source
Other / not yet classified 5 features Features we have not matched to a capability yet. A suggested match is marked.
AI Remediation shipped Generates structured code fixes for confirmed vulnerabilities with detailed explanations and integrates them into the development workflow via IDE hooks or version control pull requests. 7 releases · 3 other sources · first seen Aug 2026

Also counts toward: Built-in AI assistant

release 7 total

  • Checkmarx adds project overrides so individual teams can adapt automated remediation settings where permitted. What the PHP Patch Scramble Reveals About Remediation (2026-10-29) · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • Checkmarx adds Developer Assist to bring security analysis and remediation guidance into IDE and AI coding workflows, including supported autonomous workflows where it works with the coding agent to repeat remediation and rescanning. What the PHP Patch Scramble Reveals About Remediation (2026-10-29) · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • Checkmarx adds automated AI remediation support via Remediation Assist, letting admins define the projects, branches, scanners, and severity thresholds in scope so suggested fixes are generated automatically after a scan or automated triage completes. What the PHP Patch Scramble Reveals About Remediation (2026-10-29) · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Remediation tab in Issue view to present the proposed code fix with an expandable what, why, how explanation. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds GitHub Code Repository Integration support to automatically create a pull request containing the AI-suggested fix for SAST findings. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Remediate with AI control for eligible confirmed SAST findings, generating a suggested code fix with a structured what/why/how explanation inside Remediation > AI Remediation. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history

example

  • After enabling automated remediation, configure scope so fixes are queued the moment a scan finishes — no manual request per finding. In Checkmarx One, go to Settings > Automated AI Remediation, set the target projects, branches, scanners, and severity thresholds, then enable 'Generate fix after scan completes'. What the PHP Patch Scramble Reveals About Remediation (2026-10-29) · Oct 2026 · source
  • Generate and inspect a suggested code fix for a confirmed vulnerability to accelerate remediation. In Risk Orchestration, select `Remediate with AI` on the finding > Review the proposed diff and rationale in the `Remediation` tab. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
  • Generate a review-ready code fix for a confirmed SAST vulnerability and push it to GitHub as a pull request without leaving Checkmarx One. In Checkmarx One, open a finding with state 'Confirmed' in a GitHub Code Repository Integration project > select 'Remediate with AI' > review the proposed change under Remediation > AI Remediation… Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
Code repository integration shipped Connects projects to code repositories and keeps repository URLs consistently synchronized across project-related APIs. 3 releases · 4 other sources · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Adds GitHub Code Repository Integration support to automatically create a pull request containing the AI-suggested fix for SAST findings. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Checkmarx AI Inventory and AI-BOM capabilities using deterministic analysis to identify AI components (models, agents, MCP servers) across repositories with traceable findings. The Next Model Won’t Fix This: Three AppSec Imperatives From Black Hat USA 2026 (2026-08-17) · Aug 2026 · source · release history
  • Enables Checkmarx Fusion under Account Settings → AI Capabilities to activate the Multi-Model AI Engine. What Is Checkmarx Fusion? (2026-08-05) · Aug 2026 · source · release history

docs

  • Prev Next Single-Tenant Version 3.64 New Features and Enhancements Organization-Level Configuration for Code Repository Integrations Organization-level configuration is now available in Checkmarx One for Code Repository Integration projects, giving account administrators the ability to define scanner and integration… seen Oct 2026 · source
  • Current Multi-Tenant Version | 3.67 Improved Repository URL Sync for Code Repository Integration Projects General Availability: October 4, 2026 Checkmarx One now keeps the repository URL for Code Repository Integration Projects consistently synchronized across project-related APIs. docs update · Sep 2026 · source

example

  • Generate a review-ready code fix for a confirmed SAST vulnerability and push it to GitHub as a pull request without leaving Checkmarx One. In Checkmarx One, open a finding with state 'Confirmed' in a GitHub Code Repository Integration project > select 'Remediate with AI' > review the proposed change under Remediation > AI Remediation… Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source
  • Activate the Multi-Model AI Engine for new detections. Account Settings → AI Capabilities What Is Checkmarx Fusion? (2026-08-05) · Aug 2026 · source
CLI scanning shipped suggested Provides a command-line interface for running scans, including options such as excluding files and folders matched by .gitignore via the --optional-flags parameter. 2 releases · 1 other source · first seen Aug 2026

Suggested capability: Static application security testing. This is our guess, not confirmed.

Also counts toward: Command-line interface

release

  • Adds Remediation tab in Issue view to present the proposed code fix with an expandable what, why, how explanation. Manual triage is where backlogs are born. Checkmarx Triage & Remediation Assist is how they’re cleared. (2026-09-17) · Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Introduces Checkmarx Developer Assist with an autonomous mode using hooks and MCP to intercept file writes and package installations in IDEs/AI coding workflows. The Next Model Won’t Fix This: Three AppSec Imperatives From Black Hat USA 2026 (2026-08-17) · Aug 2026 · source · release history

docs

  • CLI and Plugins Releases of September 2026 CLI Version Status NEW Optional Flags Parameter use-gitignore option can now be passed using the global --optional-flags parameter to exclude files and folders specified in the .gitignore file from the scan. seen Oct 2026 · source
User and identity management shipped Provides an IAM users table with sorting by username, email, status, and last login, and filtering by status, authentication provider, roles, and groups. 1 release · 1 other source · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Releases Checkmarx Triage Assist and Remediation Assist that apply AI reasoning to SAST/SCA findings grounded in reachability, exploitability, and code context. The Next Model Won’t Fix This: Three AppSec Imperatives From Black Hat USA 2026 (2026-08-17) · Aug 2026 · source · release history

docs

  • Improved Sorting and Filtering for Users Table The Users table in IAM now supports sorting by username, email, status, and last login, along with filtering by status, authentication provider, roles, and groups. seen Oct 2026 · source
AI Security Inventory shipped Identifies AI components such as models, agents, and MCP servers across repositories using deterministic analysis to produce a traceable AI Bill of Materials. 1 release · first seen Aug 2026

release

  • Adds Checkmarx AI Inventory and AI-BOM capabilities using deterministic analysis to identify AI components (models, agents, MCP servers) across repositories with traceable findings. The Next Model Won’t Fix This: Three AppSec Imperatives From Black Hat USA 2026 (2026-08-17) · Aug 2026 · source · release history

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Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface

Five scores for Checkmarx, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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  • Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
  • Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
  • Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
  • Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
  • Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
  • Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.

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