Why Change

Code scanning is failing:
here is why

Our 2024 State of Salesforce Development analyzed data from 1,400+ Salesforce orgs unaware of code analysis best practices and the right tools for secure coding.

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Code Scanning Failing

How to catch the signals your code analysis isn’t working

Long-standing issues are not getting resolved
Developers ignore scan findings and avoid taking action
Lot of noise in your scan reports
Blind spots - i.e. not scanning declarative developments or configuration
Your code health hasn’t significantly improved
Risks on the Rise

Security risks are spread out — and growing.

There is a vast disconnect between Salesforce’s guidance and real-world applications.

76% of Salesforce orgs still have critical OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities in production, a security risk exposure that is not acceptable to most security teams.

Segment
Per quarter
Per week
Enterprise
290
22
Implementation Partners
1,332
103
Apex Concerns Grow

Security teams have a growing concern about Apex.

Apex can circumvent an organization’s permission, and corporate data can be exposed through vulnerable code. Remediating an Apex vulnerability takes 20 months.

Anti-Pattern
Incidence
Time to remediate
With sharing keywords are used inconsistently
62.8%
24 months
Database operations do not perform access checks appropriately
62.3%
18 months
[Vulnerability] Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
41.8%
20 months
Source: 2024 State of Salesforce Development Report
Salesforce Anti-Patterns

64% of orgs have anti-patterns that impact their time-to-market for months

A key selling point for Salesforce is its ability to accelerate your organization's time to market. Our data indicates that most applications contain anti-patterns that impede this advantage, causing companies to be slower in responding to market changes. Additionally, 83% of organizations face challenges in maintaining their implementations due to inadequate documentation, high code complexity, and technical debt.

Anti-Pattern
Incidence
Time to remediate
Adaptable > Application lifecycle management
64.8%
16 to 47 months
Easy > Data integrity
60.1%
10 to 25 months
Reliable > Performance
55.8%
21 to 29 months
Source: 2024 State of Salesforce Development Report
Traditional Scanners Miss the Mark

Traditional scanners are ineffective: lack of org’s context and runtime understanding

Traditional code scanners don't consider your Org’s context (i.e. your data objects, the classes you define, inheritance, etc). They cannot understand crucial runtime behaviour, such as function calls, inheritance, input propagation, etc. This leads to high rates of errors (false positives) and omissions (false negatives) in the scanners' reports.

Solution
Apex
All Salesforce Metadata
App Context Awareness
Apex PMD
Yes
No
No
Checkmarx
Yes
No
No
Clayton
Yes
Yes
Yes
CodeScan.io
Yes
No
No
SFDC Code Analyzer
Yes
No
No
SonarQube
Yes
No
No
Available scanning solutions used by Salesforce developers and their key limitations

Our solution

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Our Key Benefits

Discover vulnerabilities and anti-patterns and prioritize by impact
Monitor developments and block harmful code
Keep your developments in line with the latest Salesforce release
Automatically remediate issues in clicks

500+ Salesforce teams have already switched from traditional static code analysis to Clayton

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“Fantastic product, fabulous team - I would wholeheartedly recommend Clayton"
Clayton is a well-designed, intuitive, and flexible product for Salesforce platform security and code quality analysis. It is easy to set up, integrates seamlessly with platforms like Bitbucket Cloud, and provides comprehensive reporting/analytics for project monitoring. Their customer support is top-notch. Highly recommend for development teams.
Paul H.
CTO - Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
"The must-have tool to manage your codebase"
The integration with Bitbucket and the easy new navigation on the UI make this tool a daily use of the dev team. The customer support is also very good; you will always get the best answer. Clayton helps us ensure that we maintain clean code based on every pull request produced by the team.
Sylvain P.
Salesforce Technical Architect
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A great tool to enhance your application code quality"
I absolutely love: the Automated code reviews. It’s easy to setup, integrate and use. It catches security vulnerabilities and design flaws before they become overhead for us. The Fix-Bot feature is amazing!  It can easily find the mistakes that developers may overlookAnd also, the support team is easily reachable and always happy to help whenever you need them
Gopal G
Senior Technical Architect
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Our 2024 State of Salesforce Development analyzed data from 1400+ Salesforce Orgs unaware of code analysis best practices and the right tools for secure coding.

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