Integrate Contrast Security with Vulnetix. Export security findings as SARIF and upload for centralized management.
How Vulnetix compares: better together
Vulnetix does not replace Contrast Security. Keep running it. Vulnetix sits on top of Contrast Security (and every other scanner you already own) turning disconnected tool outputs into one prioritised, fixable queue.
Contrast Security is strongest at its core category and also carries features in DAST, SCA, SBOM Generation, Container & Image Scanning, just as Vulnetix spans categories.
| Capability | Vulnetix | Contrast Security |
|---|---|---|
| Security coverage | ||
| SAST (static code analysis) | ✓ Built-in rules + Semgrep augmentation | ✓ Contrast Scan is a CI/CD SAST engine for static code analysis |
| SCA / dependencies | ✓ 40+ ecosystems, transitive graph | ✓ Contrast SCA flags vulnerable OSS libraries with runtime-usage prioritisation |
| DAST (dynamic testing) | ~ Ingests DAST results; no native dynamic engine | ~ IAST (Assess) is runtime/interactive testing, dynamic-adjacent but not a black-box DAST crawler |
| Container & image | ✓ Image CVEs, base image, Dockerfile | ~ Agent instruments containerised apps; not an image/layer scanner |
| IaC / misconfiguration | ✓ Terraform, k8s, CloudFormation | ✗ |
| Secret scanning | ✓ 1,000+ rules, source + binary + git history | ✗ |
| Cloud / CSPM | ✓ Cloud-posture findings, compliance tab | ✗ |
| Mobile (MAST) | ~ Ingests mobile scanner output; no native mobile engine | ✗ |
| License compliance | ✓ SPDX, copyleft/AGPL/SSPL policy | ✗ |
| SBOM generation | ✓ CycloneDX 1.7 + SPDX 2.3, cosign-signable | ~ Generates library/dependency inventory from instrumented apps; not a full CycloneDX/SPDX generator across ecosystems |
| Malware / supply-chain | ✓ De-duplicated corpus + install-time firewall (25+ registries) | ✗ |
| Network / infra vuln | ~ Ingests network scanner output; no native network scanner | ✗ |
| Fuzzing | ✗ Ingests fuzzing crashes; no native fuzzer | ✗ |
| Pentest / bug bounty | ✗ Ingests pentest/bug-bounty findings; not a testing service | ✗ |
| The Vulnetix orchestration layer | ||
| Cross-scanner dedup & one queue (ASPM) | ✓ Correlates every scanner into one prioritised queue with ownership routing | ✗ |
| Exploit-intel prioritisation | ✓ EPSS, CISA KEV, Coalition ESS, CWSS, Vulnetix LEV | ✗ |
| Reachability analysis | ✓ Tree-sitter + CVEAffected; direct/transitive/semantic | ✓ Runtime instrumentation confirms which code paths and libraries are actually invoked |
| Versioned VEX + audit trail | ✓ Immutable OpenVEX/CycloneDX, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Safe Harbour autofix | ✓ Resolves + applies the nearest safe version | ✗ |
| End-of-life policy | ✓ Flags/blocks past-EOL runtimes & packages | ✗ |
| SSVC / risk-based policy | ✓ SSVC v2 + CISA/FedRAMP/Essential-8 presets | ✗ |
✓ full · ~ partial · ✗ not covered
What Contrast Security does well
- Runtime IAST (Contrast Assess) instruments the live app to confirm vulnerabilities on actually-executed paths, cutting false positives versus source-only scanning
- Runtime RASP (Contrast Protect) blocks attacks in production with the same agent and no code changes
- Runtime SCA prioritises open-source risk by which libraries are actually invoked at runtime, deprioritising unused vulnerable deps
- Single agent spans Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Ruby and Go for both testing (Assess) and production defence (Protect)
Where Vulnetix adds to it: Contrast's runtime IAST/RASP is a genuinely different signal Vulnetix does not produce; Vulnetix ingests Contrast's SARIF/findings and consolidates them with its own SAST, SCA, IaC, container, secrets, cloud and malware scanners into one deduplicated, EPSS/KEV/LEV-prioritised queue with versioned VEX, SSVC and autofix. Vulnetix layers on top: it orchestrates Contrast output alongside every other scanner rather than replacing Contrast's runtime instrumentation.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. Contrast Security keeps doing what it does best; Vulnetix adds the orchestration, exploit-intelligence prioritisation and remediation layer built for the way AppSec works today.
Centralise Contrast Security results in Vulnetix
Upload Contrast Security SARIF output to the Vulnetix platform to deduplicate findings, prioritise them with EPSS, CISA KEV and Coalition ESS exploit intelligence, and track remediation across every scanner in a single queue.