appsec
Safeguard articles tagged "appsec" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Autocomplete Anxiety: Measuring How Often AI Coding Assis...
Studies show 40-45% of AI-suggested code contains exploitable flaws, and models hallucinate fake packages developers install. Here's what the data says.
Snyk Alternatives in 2026: 8 Options Compared
An honest, opinionated guide to the best Snyk alternatives in 2026 — Endor Labs, Socket, Mend, Aikido, Semgrep, Sonatype, Trivy, and Safeguard — with a fair blurb and a 'best for' line for each, plus where reachability and remediation actually matter.
The Prompt Injection Problem Hiding Inside Everyday Code ...
AI coding assistants read untrusted files as instructions, not data. Here's how prompt injection sneaks malicious code into your commits — and how to catch it before it ships.
Do Code Review Practices Need to Change When Half the Cod...
AI now writes up to half of production code. Here is why traditional code review breaks down on AI output, and what teams need to change.
The Missing Guardrails: Why So Few Teams Scan AI Suggesti...
AI writes most new code, but few CI pipelines scan it before merge. Here's why the AI code scanning adoption gap exists — and what closes it.
Code Guide Buzzardcoding: How to Read and Review Code for Security
A good code guide teaches you to read code, not just write it. This walkthrough covers how to review code for the security flaws that automated tools and casual readers miss.
Comparing Insecure Output Rates Across Popular AI Coding ...
A benchmark-driven look at insecure output rates across GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amazon Q, and Tabnine, and why the model matters more than the brand.
How a Source Code Security Scanner Works and Which One to Use
A source code security scanner reads your code without running it to find injection, secrets, and logic flaws. Here is how the analysis works and how to pick one that fits.
The OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilities, Explained
The OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities is the industry-standard list of the most critical web application security risks. Here is what the current 2025 edition covers and how to defend against each.
How AI Code Generation Is Changing the Shape of the OWASP...
AI coding assistants are quietly reshuffling the OWASP Top Ten, elevating software supply chain risk and reviving old injection bugs at machine speed.
Common Insecure Suggestions in SQL and Auth Code from AI ...
Across studies from Stanford to BaxBench, AI assistants keep suggesting string-concatenated SQL and hardcoded JWT secrets. Here is the pattern, by the numbers.
Choosing a Code Analysis Tool: A Practical Security Guide
What a code analysis tool actually does, how static source code analysis differs from dependency scanning, and how to pick one that finds real bugs instead of noise.
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