Name: Contrast Runtime Security Platform
Rating: 4.8 (162 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Contrast Runtime Security Platform?

Contrast Runtime Security Platform is a software that provides security monitoring and protection for applications during runtime. The software utilizes techniques such as instrumentation to identify vulnerabilities, detect threats, and prevent exploits while applications are operating. It offers features including real-time vulnerability assessment, attack detection, and automated remediation guidance. The software is designed to address business problems related to application security by enabling organizations to continuously monitor, detect, and protect their code against security risks, allowing for proactive risk management in development and production environments. Contrast Runtime Security Platform integrates with existing development and deployment workflows to support secure DevOps processes and enhance compliance with security policies.

Overall experience with Contrast Runtime Security Platform

Manager, IT Security and Risk Management

50M - 250M USD, Software

FAVORABLE

“Account Team Exceeds Expectations While Product Addresses Interface and Feature Requests”

5.0

Apr 21, 2026

The project manager and technical resource dedicated to our account is amazing. They anticipate our needs, assist us with implementation, answer every question asked, and are extremely professional.

Architect

50M - 250M USD, IT Services

CRITICAL

“Good Company, Poor Product”

2.0

Feb 25, 2020

They are easy and seem responsive to work with. However, the product itself is not designed for our primary deployment model (microservices). It is heavyweight, relatively hard to configure and setup, and expensive for this model.

About Company

Company Description

Contrast Security's Runtime Application Security solutions embed code analysis and attack prevention directly into the software development lifecycle. Patented instrumentation provides integrated and comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protection. The Contrast Runtime Security Platform enables powerful Application Security Testing and Application Detection and Response, allowing developers, AppSec teams, and SecOps teams to protect and defend their applications against an evolving threat landscape.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2014

Head office location

Pleasanton, United States

Number of employees

201 - 500

Website

https://www.contrastsecurity.com/

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I used to work as a technical resource for a competing product and have very high expectations for a vendor in this space, and despite that the team has exceeded my expectations and have for over a year that I have been working with them. The product is innovative and continues to grow. I am very much looking forward to integrating an MCP server with their tool and seeing how it can advance the code analysis efforts from my company.

The dynamic scanning of the service being used is a good model.

Agents for various platforms Excellent single sign-on support with group support Configurable dashboard based upon groups

The absence of an SBOM manager/version differential; however, I just got off a call with the team and they demonstrated what they are working on and this will not be an issue. I am not (yet) a fan of the new NorthStar user interface. I have discussed my feedback with the team and my wish list is being addressed in the future of the tool. Again, this UI is in beta so not really a complaint at this time. I cannot come up with a 3rd issue, sorry.

The product, or a totally separate product, should be built more with microservices in mind. Perhaps thinking more about a different agent model, where you have a master Docker container running on a machine that can see application docker containers start up, and instrument them directly, rather than requiring each service to add the agent into its own runtime individually.

Agents cannot be configured to update automatically. Prior to Northstar, the three levels of access (view, edit, admin) were not clearly differentiated as to functions that were allowed.

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50M-1B USD

Software

Review Source

Account Team Exceeds Expectations While Product Addresses Interface and Feature Requests

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

10B+ USD

Services (non-Government)

Dashboard and Sign-On Features Improve, But Agents Lack Automatic Update Configuration

Apr 6, 2026

The technical presales and professional service teams have provided great support

ASSOCIATE ANALYST

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

go get latest@contrast :)

Aug 16, 2023

it was a very positive experience, contrast is a very effective tool that can detect and help fix vulnerabilities in code. contrast also provides details on how to remediate the vulnerabilities that they find. contrast is also very fast and lightweight, hence the stress on infrastructure is less, causing no problems to app teams, hence contrast is a very good fit for devsecops teams, also the customer support is at an exceptional level, the teams are very friendly and concerning.

CYBERSECURITY ANALYST

Contrast has improved our application security

Aug 23, 2023

Contrast Security has helped our teams shift left on application security. Their customer service is above and beyond; they are always there for us for any questions we have.

Senior Manager

Finance (non-banking)

Shift-Smart with Contrast

Aug 17, 2023

Contrast product suite(IAST, SCA, RASP) helps reduce the number of false positives and has a great impact on managing the application security. The Sales, Support, TAM, and executive team are customer friendly and ensure they deliver based on the customer's needs

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Account Team Exceeds Expectations While Product Addresses Interface and Feature Requests

Dashboard and Sign-On Features Improve, But Agents Lack Automatic Update Configuration

go get latest@contrast :)

Contrast has improved our application security

Shift-Smart with Contrast

4.8

(159 Ratings)

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