Checkmarx One Surpasses $150M ARR and Expands Global Leadership in AI-Powered Application Security

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Checkmarx, the global leader in agentic-AI powered application security testing, today announced exceptional growth for its flagship platform, Checkmarx One, achieving over $150 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in just three years. This milestone underscores the platform’s rapid adoption by enterprises worldwide, driven by continuous innovation and visionary leadership.

The announcement coincides with new research from Checkmarx Zero highlighting the escalating security risks of AI-generated code and the growing global demand for preventive application security.

Exceptional Growth and Global Adoption

Checkmarx One has become the preferred platform for securing modern applications, now protecting more than 860 of the world’s largest enterprises. The company continues to post strong momentum, with over 30% ARR growth and 20% customer growth year-to-date (as of Sept. 30, 2025).

Under the leadership of CEO Sandeep Johri, who joined in 2023, Checkmarx has maintained double-digit global growth while expanding its presence in Asia Pacific and the Middle East, where demand for secure software development is accelerating in sectors such as financial services, government, and telecommunications.

Each month, Checkmarx One analyzes over 800 billion lines of code, performs four million scans, secures more than three million open-source packages, and inspects nearly one million container images—identifying approximately half a million malicious packages before they can impact organizations.

Proven Business Impact

With a prevention-first approach and measurable results, Checkmarx One helps enterprises reduce vulnerabilities per project by more than 50% within the first year and cut the average cost per fix by over 60%.

• Cebu Pacific, the largest airline in the Philippines, reduced vulnerability density by 50% using Checkmarx One.
• Construction leader PCL onboarded Checkmarx One within hours and now scans over four million lines of code weekly, reducing supply chain risk and accelerating remediation.

Recognition and Regulatory Leadership

Checkmarx has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing (AST), a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Static Application Security Testing (SAST), and a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) 2025 Vendor Assessment.

The company also achieved FedRAMP Ready status at the High Impact Level for its Checkmarx One for Government platform—the first AppSec solution to reach this milestone with full SDLC coverage.

Checkmarx Zero Research: Intelligence Powering Secure Development

At the core of Checkmarx innovation lies Checkmarx Zero Research, a dedicated team that uncovers and mitigates the building blocks of modern software risk—from open-source supply chain threats to emerging LLM security challenges.

The group continuously fuels the intelligence layer of Checkmarx One and supports the global security ecosystem through open-source projects such as KICS, 2MS, and ZAP, advancing infrastructure-as-code, secret protection, and application scanning for organizations everywhere.

AI and the Future of Secure Development

The Checkmarx “Future of Application Security in the Era of AI” report—based on a survey of 1,500+ global security and development leaders—reveals a dramatic shift in coding practices:

• 34% of organizations report that over 60% of their code is machine-generated.
• Nearly 1 in 10 say 80–100% of their codebase is AI-written.
• Only 18% have AI governance policies in place, and 98% experienced a breach tied to vulnerable code in the past year.

“The velocity of AI-assisted development makes a holistic, prevention-first security approach more critical than ever,” said Sandeep Johri, CEO of Checkmarx. “Organizations embracing AI for productivity gains must equally invest in securing the code it produces. Checkmarx One delivers the AI-powered security intelligence modern enterprises need to stay protected from the moment code is created.”

Pioneering AI Code Security Assistants

In response to this new era of AI-driven development, Checkmarx introduced Developer Assist, the first in a new category of AI Coding Security Assistants. Now generally available, Developer Assist provides developers with real-time, context-aware guidance as they code—reducing remediation time from days to minutes.

Integrated with leading AI-native environments such as Windsurf by Cognition, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, Developer Assist empowers teams to prevent vulnerabilities before production, combining the agility of AI with the security rigor of Checkmarx.

“Across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, we’re seeing organizations embrace AI-driven innovation to transform how software is developed,” said Nitin Dang, VP for APAC, Middle East, and Africa at Checkmarx. “Checkmarx One empowers developers and security teams to harness AI responsibly - helping governments and enterprises protect their applications while achieving faster time to market.”

¹ Gartner®, Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing, By Jason Gross, Mark Horvath, Giles Williams, Shailendra Upadhyay, Dionisio Zumerle, Aaron Lord, October 6, 2025

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³ IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Application Security Posture Management Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment, Doc # US53001925, September 2025

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About Checkmarx

Checkmarx is the leader in cloud-native, agentic application security, delivering enterprise-grade protection while lowering engineering costs and accelerating development velocity. The Checkmarx One platform scans trillions of lines of code each year for companies, cutting vulnerability density by more than half. Its autonomous security agents detect and counter AI-driven threats across the SDLC, providing prevention-first protection for legacy, modern, and AI-generated code at enterprise scale. Follow Checkmarx on LinkedIn, YouTube, and X.

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