Contrast Assess

Contrast Assess is an enterprise Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) solution that continuously detects and diagnoses code-level security vulnerabilities while applications are actively being developed and tested. Conventional static application scanning tools (SAST) produce overwhelming rates of false positives, forcing development teams to waste countless hours triaging inaccurate alerts. Contrast Assess transforms testing by embedding an intelligent instrumentation agent inside the application runtime environment. As software developers and QA teams run functional tests, manual test cases, or automated unit suites, the Contrast agent observes data flows and control execution paths from within the running application. It precisely identifies high-risk vulnerabilities, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), insecure deserialization, and authentication bypasses, with virtually zero false positives. Contrast Assess pinpoints the exact line of vulnerable source code, displays the full HTTP request payload, and provides customized code-fix recommendations. The solution integrates directly into developer IDEs, ticketing systems like Jira, and continuous integration pipelines such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions. By automating security verification during standard development workflows, Contrast Assess enables software engineering organizations to ship secure code rapidly.