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SCA and Application Security: How Software Composition Analysis Fits In
SCA application security is about finding and fixing risk in the open-source code you depend on. Here is where it fits alongside SAST and DAST.
Nov 12, 20256 min read
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SQL Injection Cheatsheet: Detection and Prevention for Developers
A defender's SQL injection cheatsheet: how the vulnerability class works, how to recognize it in code, and the patterns that reliably shut it down.
Nov 12, 20256 min read
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The Benefits of Using SAST Tools During Code Review
The real benefit of using SAST tools during code review isn't finding more bugs than a human reviewer — it's finding the specific bugs humans consistently miss, before merge.
Nov 12, 20256 min read
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Vulnerability Scanners and the Gartner AST Landscape: How the Tools Actually Work
When people search for a vulnerability scanner in the Gartner sense, they usually mean the AST market. Here is what that market covers, how the tool types work, and how to choose.
Nov 10, 20256 min read
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Black Box Fuzzing, Explained
Black box fuzzing throws malformed input at a running application with zero knowledge of its internals, and it still finds crashes and memory bugs white box testing misses — here's how it works and where it fits in a security program.
Nov 6, 20256 min read
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ZAP Scanner: How OWASP ZAP Works and When to Use It
ZAP is the most widely used free DAST scanner. Here is how its spider, passive, and active engines work, where it fits in CI, and its honest limits.
Nov 6, 20257 min read
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XSS Code Examples: How Cross-Site Scripting Looks in Practice
An XSS code example makes the abstract concrete: here is what vulnerable code looks like for each type of cross-site scripting, and the small change that fixes each one.
Nov 5, 20255 min read
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Mobile Security Testing: OWASP MAS in Practice
OWASP MAS turns mobile app security from ad-hoc pentests into a program: what the eight MASVS control groups cover, how MASTG test cases work, and how to fit it all into CI.
Nov 5, 20256 min read
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Web Application Scanning: Tools and Methods Compared
Web application scanning ranges from free automated crawlers to full authenticated DAST pipelines — here's how the methods differ and when each is enough.
Nov 5, 20255 min read
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