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We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in application security tools category. Our data sources in application security tools category include;
Application security tools (also called application security software) helps companies secure applications' source. These tools protect applications from data leakage, detect intrusions, and prevent code injections.
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We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in application security tools category. Our data sources in application security tools category include;
review websites
social media websites
search engine data for branded queries
According to the weighted combination of 7 data sources
Fastly
CAST Application Intelligence Platform
Veracode
Armor Cloud Security
SonarQube
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current application security tools market leaders. Market leaders are not the overall leaders since market leadership doesn’t take into account growth rate.
Fastly
Veracode
CAST Application Intelligence Platform
SonarQube
Armor Cloud Security
These are the number of queries on search engines which include the brand name of the solution. Compared to other Cybersecurity categories, Application Security Tools is more concentrated in terms of top 3 companies’ share of search queries. Top 3 companies receive 91%, 8% more than the average of search queries in this area.
543 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 522 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 9 companies with >10 employees are offering application security tools. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 2k employees. The largest company building application security tools is CAST with more than 1000 employees.
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the fastest growing solutions:
Fastly
CAST Application Intelligence Platform
Armor Cloud Security
Veracode
SonarQube
We have analyzed reviews published in the last months. These were published in 4 review platforms as well as vendor websites where the vendor had provided a testimonial from a client whom we could connect to a real person.
These solutions have the best combination of high ratings from reviews and number of reviews when we take into account all their recent reviews.
This data is collected from customer reviews for all Application Security Tools companies. The most positive word describing Application Security Tools is “Easy to use” that is used in 4% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 3.00% of all the Application Security Tools reviews.
According to customer reviews, most common company size for application security tools customers is 1,001+ employees. Customers with 1,001+ employees make up 43% of application security tools customers. For an average Cybersecurity solution, customers with 1,001+ employees make up 37% of total customers.
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all Application Security Tools. Application Security Tools is most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Customer Service".
This category was searched on average for 741 times per month on search engines in 2022. This number has decreased to 590 in 2023. If we compare with other cybersecurity solutions, a typical solution was searched 736 times in 2022 and this decreased to 590 in 2023.