appsec
Safeguard articles tagged "appsec" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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DAST vs Penetration Testing: Which One Does Your App Actually Need?
DAST vs penetration testing comes down to automation versus human creativity. Here is how they differ, where SAST fits, and why mature teams run all three.
How to Learn Hacking: An Ethical Hacker's Roadmap
A practical, legal path into offensive security — the fundamentals to build first, the labs to practice on, and how to turn curiosity into a defensible skill set.
Application Security Vulnerabilities: What They Are and How to Fix Them
Application security vulnerabilities are the flaws in your code, dependencies, and configuration that attackers exploit. This guide covers the common classes and how to find and fix them.
CTF Cyber Security Competitions Worth Trying
A practical rundown of CTF cyber security formats and specific competitions worth an engineer's time, and how the skills transfer directly back to application security work.
API Security Scanning: What Good Tools Actually Catch
API security scanning explained in terms of the specific failure classes it catches, from broken object-level authorization to shadow endpoints, and why generic web scanners miss most of them.
Application Vulnerability Assessment: Scope, Method, and Reporting
Most assessment reports die unread because scope was fuzzy and findings were not verified. A working method for assessments that end in shipped fixes.
Code Scanning Tools: SAST, Secrets, and Linters Compared
SAST tools, secret scanners, and linters all read your source code but catch entirely different classes of problems — here's how to tell them apart and stack them correctly.
What SCA Means in Security (Software Composition Analysis)
The SCA security meaning explained: what software composition analysis is, how it differs from SAST and DAST, and why it matters for the open source in your code.
How to Choose an Application Security Company
What an application security company actually does, the categories of vendors, and the questions that separate real coverage from a dashboard full of noise.
The OWASP API Security Top 10: Each Risk Explained
The OWASP API Top 10 is a ranked list of the most common API-specific vulnerability classes, from broken object level authorization to unsafe consumption of third-party APIs.
nimbus-jose-jwt: JWT Handling in Java Done Right
com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt is the JVM's workhorse JOSE library. Here is how to configure it so algorithm confusion, weak validation, and its one recent CVE never reach production.
jwt-decode: Why Decoding Is Not Verifying (Security Guide)
The npm jwt-decode package reads JWT claims without checking the signature. That is by design, and it is behind a whole class of authentication bypasses when developers forget it.
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