appsec
Safeguard articles tagged "appsec" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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What Does SAST Stand For, Exactly?
SAST stands for static application security testing — analyzing source code for vulnerabilities without ever running the program, which is what separates it from every dynamic testing approach.
Building a Security Champions Program
A step-by-step guide to launching a security champions program that scales your security team's influence across engineering without hiring a dozen new AppSec engineers.
The Snyk Tool: What It Does, and What It Doesn't
The Snyk tool covers SCA, container, and IaC scanning well, but its SAST depth and enterprise pricing are the two things buyers most often get wrong going in.
HTTP Request Smuggling: A Practical Guide
HTTP request smuggling exploits disagreements between frontend and backend servers about where one request ends and the next begins. This guide covers CL.TE, TE.CL, and TE.TE variants with detection and defense strategies.
AI Security Solutions: A Buyer's Guide for 2026
AI security solutions now span two very different categories — securing AI systems and using AI to secure everything else — and buyers who conflate them end up with the wrong tool.
FAQ: Building an AppSec Program From Scratch
How to stand up an application security program from zero in 2026 — headcount, tooling, first 90 days, metrics, and the traps that waste the first year.
How to implement OAuth 2.0 securely
A step-by-step guide to implementing OAuth 2.0 securely: PKCE, redirect URI validation, token storage, and the vulnerabilities to avoid.
The email-validator Python Library: Usage and Security Guide
How the email-validator Python package works, why regex-only validation is a trap, and the deliverability checks that quietly protect your signup flow.
What is a Security Champion Program
A security champion program embeds trained developers in each engineering team to triage vulnerabilities locally. Here's how to structure, staff, and measure one.
How an AI-Based Security System Works in Modern Application Security
An AI-based security system uses machine learning to detect threats and prioritize risk at a scale humans cannot match. Here is what it does well, and where it needs guardrails.
Auditing unsafe Rust FFI boundaries for memory corruption...
A step-by-step rust ffi security audit: map unsafe boundaries, fuzz with cargo-fuzz, run Miri and sanitizers, and verify ownership to catch memory corruption before shipping.
RASP vs IAST: Which to Deploy in 2026
A practical comparison of Runtime Application Self-Protection and Interactive Application Security Testing for 2026, with deployment guidance based on real-world tradeoffs.
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