CAST Highlight vs Contrast Security Protect comparison

The compared CAST and Contrast Security solutions aren't in the same category. CAST is ranked #9 in SCA , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 1.0% mindshare in the category. Contrast Security is ranked #32 in AS , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CAST users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Contrast Security users who would recommend it.

CAST Highlight

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100% willing to recommend

Contrast Security Protect

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and Contrast Security Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed CAST Highlight vs. Contrast Security Protect Report (Updated: September 2022).

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Categories and Ranking

CAST Highlight

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (9th)

Contrast Security Protect

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (32nd)

Mindshare comparison

CAST Highlight and Contrast Security Protect aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. CAST Highlight is designed for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.8% compared to last year.
Contrast Security Protect, on the other hand, focuses on Application Security Tools, holds 0.5% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Application Security Tools

Featured Reviews

Chris Van Poele

Owner at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 30, 2024

Offers efficient portfolio management through enhanced application insights

I have used CAST Highlight in combination with application portfolio management, application lifecycle management, going cloud-ready, and other applications. My main occupation involves software completion analysis and working with various solutions like firewalls and storage One of the…

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Akshay Waghmare

Manager at Deloitte

Nov 9, 2023

A stable DevSecOps product that gives fewer false positives

We use the product for DevSecOps. The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives. Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration. I have been using the product for a year. Contrast Security Protect is stable. The solution is scalable. My company has ten…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."

"The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."

"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."

"CAST Highlight provides a clear overview of the role portfolio and allows users to assess the overall quality of the environment. Users can see where improvements are needed and follow up on trends of the application."

"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."

"It offers good performance."

"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."

"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."

"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."

Cons

"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."

"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."

"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."

"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."

"There could be potential improvements or additional features added to CAST Highlight to make it better."

"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."

"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."

"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."

"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Basic support is included with the standard licensing feed but it can be upgraded for an additional cost."

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution."

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions."

"It is a pretty costly tool. A lot of customers are resistant to using it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

18%

Insurance Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CAST Highlight?

The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CAST Highlight?

CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine out of ten.

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What needs improvement with CAST Highlight?

The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight.

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What do you like most about Contrast Security Protect?

The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives.

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What needs improvement with Contrast Security Protect?

Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration.

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What is your primary use case for Contrast Security Protect?

We use the product for DevSecOps.

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Overview

CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence product for performing rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition Analysis (Open Source risks), Resiliency, and Technical Debt. Objective software insights from automated source code analysis combined with built-in qualitative surveys for business context enable more informed decision-making about application portfolios.

CAST is the software intelligence category leader. CAST technology can see inside custom applications with MRI-like precision, automatically generating intelligence about their inner workings - composition, architecture, transaction flows, cloud readiness, structural flaws, legal and security risks. It’s becoming essential for faster modernization for cloud, raising the speed and efficiency of Software Engineering, better open source risk control, and accurate technical due diligence. CAST operates globally with offices in North America, Europe, India, China. Visit www.castsoftware.com.

Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of security technology that enables software applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks, heralding the new era of self-protecting software. Contrast's patented deep security instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate assessment and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio, without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has sensors that work actively inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure the entire enterprise from development, to operations, to production.

Sample Customers

Wells Fargo, Bank of NY Mellon, Northern Trust, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, BMW, AT&T, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, John Hancock, Marsh & McLennan, Ernst & Young, PwC, Volkswagen, Boston Consulting Group, London Stock Exchange, Telefonica, Saur France, Total Energies France, SNCF

Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.

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