application-security
Safeguard articles tagged "application-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Checkmarx SCA: Application Security from a SAST Pioneer
A review of Checkmarx SCA covering its integration with the broader Checkmarx AST platform, vulnerability detection, and exploitability analysis capabilities.
What is a Trust Boundary
A trust boundary is where data crosses into a higher-privilege context and must be verified. Learn where they hide and how breaches like Log4Shell exploited them.
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.
Ruby deserialization vulnerabilities: Marshal.load, YAML....
A decade of Ruby CVEs — from CVE-2013-0156 to CVE-2022-32224 — shows how Marshal.load and YAML.load turn untrusted input into remote code execution.
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.
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.
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