appsec
Safeguard articles tagged "appsec" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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OWASP Top 10:2025 RC1: Software Supply Chain Failures Becomes Its Own Category
The OWASP Top 10:2025 release candidate, published November 2025, splits Vulnerable Components into a broader Software Supply Chain Failures category and elevates Security Misconfiguration to #2.
SAST Tooling: How to Choose and Run Static Analysis That Developers Trust
SAST tooling scans your source code for security flaws before it runs, but the tool you pick matters less than how you tune it. Here is how to choose, integrate, and keep the noise down.
What Is Application Security Monitoring and How Do You Do It Well?
Application security monitoring is the continuous observation of an application's behavior to detect attacks, abuse, and security failures as they happen. Here is what to monitor and how to make signals actionable.
Choosing a Secrets Scanning Tool That Actually Catches Leaks
A secrets scanning tool finds API keys, tokens, and passwords hiding in your code and git history. Here is how they work and what to look for in one.
Overreliance on LLM Outputs: A Security Perspective
LLMs hallucinate packages, vulnerability verdicts, and compliance summaries with total confidence. Here's where overreliance on AI outputs creates real security risk—and how to close the gap.
SCA and Application Security: How Software Composition Analysis Fits In
SCA application security is about finding and fixing risk in the open-source code you depend on. Here is where it fits alongside SAST and DAST.
SQL Injection Cheatsheet: Detection and Prevention for Developers
A defender's SQL injection cheatsheet: how the vulnerability class works, how to recognize it in code, and the patterns that reliably shut it down.
The Benefits of Using SAST Tools During Code Review
The real benefit of using SAST tools during code review isn't finding more bugs than a human reviewer — it's finding the specific bugs humans consistently miss, before merge.
A framework for consolidating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools
Enterprises run 45 security tools on average, and 50+ tool stacks detect incidents 8% worse. Here's when AppSec consolidation actually pays off.
AppSec anti-patterns to eliminate
23.8M secrets leaked on public GitHub in 2024 alone. Here are the AppSec anti-patterns behind numbers like that — and the concrete practices that replace them.
Object Injection Vulnerabilities in PHP and Node.js
PHP's unserialize() and Node's insecure deserialization both let attackers forge objects and execute code. Here's how object injection works and how to stop it.
Why developers ignore security tools, and how to fix it
Verizon's 2025 DBIR found only 54% of edge-device vulnerabilities get fully remediated within a year. The gap isn't awareness — it's friction and delay.
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