AppSec
In-depth guides and analysis on appsec from the Safeguard engineering team.
309 articles
The Security Implications of Package Bundlers
Bundlers transform your code and dependencies into production artifacts. The security implications of this transformation are significant and widely overlooked.
Business Logic Vulnerabilities: The Flaws Scanners Cannot Find
Business logic vulnerabilities bypass every automated scanner because they are not coding errors. They are design errors. Here is how to identify and prevent them.
Modern Command Injection Prevention: Beyond the Basics
Command injection remains in the OWASP Top 10 because developers keep making the same mistakes with new tools. Here is a modern prevention guide covering containers, serverless, and CI/CD.
Missing Rate Limiting: The OWASP API Security Risk Explained
A no rate limiting vulnerability sits quietly in most APIs until it enables brute force, credential stuffing, or resource exhaustion; here is how to spot it and fix it before it does.
What Is a CTF in Cybersecurity? A Beginner's Guide
A CTF in cyber security is a hands-on competition where you solve security puzzles to capture hidden flags — the fastest, most practical way for beginners to learn real offensive and defensive skills.
Application Security Checklist: Best Practices for 2026
An application security best practices checklist for 2026: what to enforce at design, dependency, pipeline, and runtime layers, updated for the new OWASP Top 10 categories.
Application Security Companies: An Evaluation Checklist
A concrete checklist for evaluating application security companies in 2026 — coverage, false-positive handling, integration depth, and the questions vendor demos are designed to dodge.
AppSec Solutions: A Market Map for 2026
The appsec solutions market has consolidated around a handful of shapes — code-first platforms, cloud-native suites, and point scanners — and picking the right shape matters more than picking a brand.
SAST Tools: A Shortlist Worth Evaluating
A working sast tools list should separate what free sast tools handle well from what only becomes worthwhile once you're paying for language coverage, tuning, and CI/CD depth.
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