DerScanner Enters the Forrester SAST Landscape, Q2 2023

When Forrester publishes a Landscape report, it isn't evaluating which vendor wins — it's answering a more foundational question: who actually operates in this market and what do they do? The Static Application Security Testing Landscape, Q2 2023 drew on that methodology to map the SAST vendor ecosystem at a moment when the category was under real pressure to evolve. DerScanner made the list.

The timing matters. By 2023, the criticism leveled at SAST tools had calcified into a familiar pattern: scans too slow for modern pipelines, results too noisy for developers to act on, integrations too brittle to survive an org's CI/CD toolchain without dedicated maintenance. The vendors Forrester chose to include were those moving away from that pattern — toward faster analysis, better signal-to-noise, and deeper pipeline integration. That's the context in which DerScanner was evaluated.

From analyzer to platform

DerScanner was originally built as a static code analyzer. That core remains, but the product has grown considerably around it. The current platform brings SAST, DAST, and SCA under one roof — a design choice that reflects how AppSec teams actually work, where findings from static analysis, live application testing, and dependency scanning need to be understood together rather than in separate dashboards.

The SAST module itself covers 36 programming languages. The breadth matters less as a headline number and more as a practical signal: teams working with mixed-language codebases, or those running security programs across a large portfolio of applications, don't need to route different languages to different tools.

False positive rates sit at the center of whether SAST gets adopted or abandoned. Dan Chernov, CEO of DerScanner, has consistently framed accuracy as a product discipline: "The highly scientific technologies implemented in our product enable us to provide high quality code analysis and minimize the number of false positives." That focus shapes how the tool is used day-to-day — findings that get reviewed and fixed rather than triaged into a backlog and forgotten.

What the Forrester Landscape inclusion represents

Being listed in a Forrester Landscape puts a vendor into the reference set that enterprise security buyers consult when building a shortlist. It's not a rating or a ranking — it's recognition of market presence and product credibility. For DerScanner, the Q2 2023 SAST Landscape marked the first appearance in a Forrester publication focused specifically on static analysis, establishing the product in a buyer conversation that had largely been dominated by older, Western-headquartered vendors.