Application Security
In-depth guides and analysis on application security from the Safeguard engineering team.
490 articles
How Snyk Agent Fix uses dynamic few-shot prompting to gen...
How Snyk Agent Fix uses dynamic few-shot prompting and a 35,000-example database to generate, validate, and iteratively repair AI-generated code fixes.
Why Snyk Agent Fix scopes fixes to a single file, and wha...
Snyk Agent Fix patches one file per finding. Here's why that scope exists, which vulnerability classes need multi-file fixes, and how to catch what a single-file patch leaves behind.
How Snyk Code's detection differs across Java, JavaScript...
Snyk Code applies one hybrid AI-plus-symbolic engine to ten languages, but rule depth, autofix coverage, and taint tracking vary widely by language.
How Snyk Code integrates with GitHub Advanced Security th...
A technical walkthrough of how Snyk Code's SARIF output is generated, uploaded, and deduplicated inside GitHub Advanced Security's code scanning pipeline.
How Snyk Code's confidence scoring separates high-confide...
How Snyk Code's confidence scoring works under the hood, and why "high confidence" and "severity" are not the same axis for triage.
How Snyk Code analyzes API usage patterns to catch insecu...
A technical look at how Snyk Code's symbolic engine and taint tracking flag insecure API calls like weak crypto, XXE, and SSRF before code ships.
How Snyk Code detects path traversal vulnerabilities thro...
How Snyk Code uses interprocedural data-flow tracing—not regex matching—to catch path traversal (CWE-22) by connecting tainted sources to file-system sinks.
How Snyk Code's duplicate and similar-code detection supp...
Snyk Code once shipped duplicate and similar-code detection under its Code Quality rules. Here's how it worked, and what its 2025 retirement means for teams.
Enterprise AppSec risk management at scale
Black Duck built its platform on decades of license-compliance SCA and acquired tools. Safeguard built a unified, reachability-aware supply-chain risk platform from day one.
Why LLM API keys should be treated as tier-zero secrets
A leaked LLM API key is a blank check and a data pipe in one credential. Here's why it demands tier-zero controls—and why tools like Black Duck never see it.
BSIMM16 report: benchmarking software security program ma...
BSIMM16 shows AI now drives more security program change than any other force, with 111 firms assessed and SBOM use up nearly 30%. Here's what it means — and its blind spots.
Reachability Analysis as the Missing Piece of SCA
Most SCA-flagged vulnerabilities aren't exploitable. Here's why reachability analysis — not just dependency matching — is what separates real risk from noise, and where Sonatype falls short.
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