Application Security
In-depth guides and analysis on application security from the Safeguard engineering team.
490 articles
API Security Through the Supply Chain Lens
APIs are both an attack surface and a supply chain dependency. This guide examines API security risks from authentication to third-party integrations.
DAST Tool Comparison for Enterprise: What Matters Beyond Feature Lists
Enterprise DAST tools differ in how they handle modern application architectures, API testing, and CI/CD integration. Here is what to evaluate when choosing a DAST solution.
What is Taint Analysis
Taint analysis traces untrusted input from source to sink to catch injection flaws. Learn how it works, what it misses, and how reachability analysis fixes the noise.
What is Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) Analysis
AST analysis parses code into a tree to catch what regex scanning misses — here's how it works, its limits, and how reachability fixes the gap.
What is Semantic Code Analysis
Semantic code analysis traces how data actually flows through code to find real vulnerabilities — cutting false positives that plague pattern-matching SAST tools.
What is Risk Scoring
Vulnerability risk scoring ranks flaws by real exploitability and exposure, not just CVSS severity. Here's how it works and why it matters.
Template Injection (SSTI) Prevention Guide
Server-Side Template Injection turns template engines into code execution engines. This guide covers SSTI in Jinja2, Twig, Freemarker, and other engines, with detection techniques and layered defenses.
What is Vulnerability Triage
Vulnerability triage ranks scanner findings by real exploitability and exposure, not raw CVSS score, turning an unmanageable backlog into a short, defensible fix list.
IAST Explained: Why Instrumented Security Testing Catches What Others Miss
IAST combines the precision of SAST with the realism of DAST. Here is how it works, where it fits, and what it actually costs to deploy.
What is Exposure Management
Exposure management goes beyond CVE lists — it's the continuous, evidence-backed way to find and fix what attackers can actually exploit today.
What is Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
CTEM is Gartner's five-stage framework for continuously scoping, discovering, prioritizing, and validating exposures instead of relying on periodic scans.
What is Attack Surface Reduction
Attack surface reduction means shrinking every entry point attackers can use—code, network, and identity. Here's how to define, measure, and act on it.
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