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AppSec

Website Vulnerability Scanners: How They Work and What They Miss

How a website vulnerability scanner crawls, fuzzes, and fingerprints your app, plus the whole classes of flaws it structurally cannot find on its own.

Apr 25, 20266 min read
Best Practices

How to Compare SCA Offerings Before Buying in 2026

A buyer's framework for evaluating SCA products in 2026: what to test, what to ignore in vendor pitches, and how to size the operational cost honestly.

Apr 25, 20266 min read
AI Security

AI Coding Assistant Security: 2026 Buyer Comparison

A security-focused buyer comparison of AI coding assistants in 2026: code quality risk, data exfiltration controls, license exposure, and policy enforcement.

Apr 25, 20265 min read
AppSec

SAST Testing: How Static Analysis Finds Bugs Before They Run

A SAST test analyzes source code without executing it to find vulnerabilities like injection and hardcoded secrets. Here is how it works and where it fits.

Apr 25, 20266 min read
Security

Local Storage Security: What to Store and What Never To

Local storage security comes down to one rule most apps break: the browser's localStorage is readable by any JavaScript on the page, so it is no place for secrets.

Apr 25, 20265 min read
Security

Gray Box Testing Explained: A Security Guide

Gray box testing gives a tester partial internal knowledge, splitting the difference between black box and white box. Here is when it finds bugs the other two miss.

Apr 24, 20266 min read
Security

Statische Code-Analyse: Sicherheitsluecken finden, bevor Code laeuft

Statische Code-Analyse prueft Quellcode ohne ihn auszufuehren und findet Sicherheitsluecken frueh. So funktioniert sie und welche Tools sich lohnen.

Apr 24, 20265 min read
AppSec

Web Application Penetration Testing: What to Expect

A real web application penetration test follows a scoped, multi-phase process — here's what happens before, during, and after the engagement so the report doesn't surprise you.

Apr 24, 20265 min read
AppSec

IAST Meaning: What Interactive Application Security Testing Does

IAST instruments a running application from the inside, watching real execution to confirm vulnerabilities with far fewer false positives than static scanning.

Apr 24, 20266 min read
Security

Enso Security and ASPM: What It Is and Why It Matters

Enso Security pioneered Application Security Posture Management before its 2023 acquisition by Snyk. Here is what ASPM solves and how the category has evolved.

Apr 23, 20265 min read
AppSec

White Box Pentesting: A Practical Guide to Full-Knowledge Testing

White box pentesting gives the tester source code, architecture, and credentials up front. Here is when that full-knowledge approach beats black box, and how an engagement actually runs.

Apr 22, 20266 min read
AppSec

SAST and DAST Tools: A Combined Buying Guide

Buying SAST and DAST tools separately usually means paying for two dashboards that don't talk to each other — here's how to evaluate them as a combined purchase in 2026.

Apr 22, 20265 min read

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