CAST Highlight vs. Trend Micro Cloud One - Application Security

I think CAST is a great tool to give insight into your applications. The tool can be met with resistance from team members as the tool is going to expose defects that should be addressed. Out of the box, it may need some tailoring to focus on certain areas so that you are not overwhelmed with defects the first time you scan your code. But ultimately, you will want to eliminate all defects in the code and have all violations turned on.

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Scenarios where it's well suited - 1) AWS cloud environments where application security and ZTN is a must. 2) One-stop-shop for centralized discovery of apps/workloads. 3) Custom reporting client needs. 4) CI/CD pipeline - easy to design DevOps cycles.

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• Identifies common coding vulnerabilities.
• Compares code to industry best practices.
• Assesses the code for data privacy compliance.

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• Easy integration with AWS environment
• holistic protection - workload and network security
• Monitoring capabilities - SIEM tools which helps in RCA analysis.

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• Code scans could be faster. A large application may need to be broken down into smaller sub-applications in order to facilitate faster code scans.
• We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to best structure our code base in the application for ultimate performance.

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• Found a tad difficult in case of hybrid cloud environments - VMware specific etc
• API calls did not work well with only a few applications ( SNOW etc), most of it is fine
• Professional services / Support - dedicated customer support should be more proactive, flexible

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Tech support and pro services are top-notch.

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These other tools only do a part of what CAST does. CAST gives a comprehensive view into the code looking at all aspects, code quality, security, maintainability, vulnerability, privacy, reuse, etc. These other tools only focus on one or two dimensions.

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1) flexible customer support and PoV assistance as compared to other vendors 2) Quick TAT turnaround, and easy sampling - Automation features are smooth to use and leverage 3) Our client was interested in this solution since they heard it from one of their other partners from USA - So, this solution was already a step ahead, we just had to pick it up and get used to it

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• I believe once we had the tool working for our code base, we immediately saw positive ROI.
• We spent some time getting to where our code code be scanned efficiently but some of that was trying to do things ourselves instead of fully utilizing Cast Professional Services. I highly recommend to do an engagement with CAST to have them help setup the tool in your environment or to run it in the cloud for you.

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• Our single PoV helped few customers already - RoI return - Excellent
• GTM strategy - Go to Market worked - Saved potentially 500k USD minimum for client - within few months
• Allianz assistance - client support in planning helped to further smoothen the RoI cycle, we have planned upto FY 23 for our healthcare client

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