Why AppSec teams switch from Checkmarx to Boost Security
One AppSec team spent more than nine months deploying Checkmarx and never finished. While they onboarded projects one at a time, their engineers kept shipping, and the vulnerability backlog grew every month the rollout dragged on. After the switch, the same team completed their full Boost deployment in under two weeks and started shrinking that backlog within a month.
Why Checkmarx deployments stall
Checkmarx scans when the pipeline runs, so your team edits pipelines to get coverage. Each project needs onboarding, each language needs a preset, and each finding needs a human to decide whether it matters. Developers own the pipelines, which means every step of the rollout waits on a favor from someone outside your team.
While the rollout stalls, the findings pile up. Legacy SAST results arrive with false-positive rates high enough that your team can't justify blocking builds, and developers stop trusting what the tool reports.
“Some developers did it right away. But others ignored the instructions, so we had to call them again and again, and no progress was being made.”
“We had a scanner, but we weren't doing enough about it. Our CSO realized that if we didn't stop the bleeding, we simply couldn't catch up.”
Deployment with Boost: a service account and an API key
Your team connects Boost at the source control level with a service account and an API key. Nobody needs to edit a pipeline, and (better yet) nobody needs to ask the developers for a favor. On connection, Boost maps your full repository footprint, including the shadow repos and archived projects you can't see today, and discovers new repositories automatically the moment engineers create them. Your code stays in your environment.
Imagine a full rollout without having to ask engineering or DevOps for favors.
One Head of AppSec connected his entire 700-repository footprint in a single afternoon, after his previous AppSec rollout had stalled for years.
An AppSec lead at a global travel platform migrated 6,000 repositories with a three-person team in under 90 days, developer training included.
What your team gains after cutover
Boost traces call paths with environmental context and suppresses findings in code nothing can reach. Your team sees the vulnerabilities attackers can exploit, which gives you the confidence to move from notification mode to blocking mode.
When Boost finds a flaw, it writes the contextual fix and pushes it to the pull request, and your engineers review and merge it there. Nobody opens a ticket and waits for a sprint.
Checkmarx starts working when code reaches the repository. By then, an AI coding agent has already written the flaw, imported the dependency, and moved on to the next task. Boost governs the coding agents themselves on the developer's machine: it validates MCP servers, blocks typosquatted packages at download, and feeds your secure coding standards into the agent's context before it generates a line.
Silent Mode: prove it on your own code first
You keep Checkmarx running. We connect Boost alongside it in Silent Mode, where the platform scans everything and alerts no one. Your team compares Boost's findings against Checkmarx's on your own code, tunes policies, and decides what enforcement should look like before a single developer sees a comment. When you're ready, you flip on enforcement and retire Checkmarx at your renewal date, with your compliance evidence continuous the whole way through.
Talk to us before your renewal
Book a call and we'll set up Silent Mode together. You'll see Boost's findings on your own repositories next to what Checkmarx reports today, so you can make the switching case with your own data.
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