Hey everyone! Been working with Checkmarx for about a year now, and I keep hitting the same wall with our leadership. They bought into the "Unified" platform idea, but in practice, it feels like three separate tools duct-taped together.
I need to show them the operational cost. For example, the findings from SAST, DAST, and SCA don't actually talk to each other. We're still manually correlating results and creating separate reports for each team. That's hours every week! Anyone else have a concrete example of this "unification gap" I can use to make my case? The efficiency promise just isn't panning out. 😅
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Oh, I've seen this exact scenario before. That manual correlation is a huge hidden cost that vendors don't talk about.
You could track the time your team spends merging results and building those separate reports for a sprint, then translate it into a monthly FTE cost. Management usually perks up when they see a hard number attached to the promise that was sold to them.
Another angle is the risk of things falling through the cracks during that manual process. A unified platform should theoretically de-duplicate and prioritize findings across the tools. If it's not doing that, you're not just losing time, you're potentially missing critical vulnerabilities that slip between the seams.