sast
Safeguard articles tagged "sast" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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What is Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
SAST scans source code for flaws before deployment. Learn how it works, where Checkmarx-style tools fall short on supply chain risk, and how Safeguard closes the gap.
Static Analysis Tools compared
Veracode built its name on SAST, DAST, and SCA for application code. Safeguard focuses static analysis on the software supply chain. Here's how the two actually differ.
What is AI Code Remediation?
AI code remediation turns vulnerability findings into ready-to-merge patches. Here's how it works, where Veracode's approach falls short, and how Safeguard closes the gap.
Vulnerability Scanner Tools: how they work
A breakdown of how SAST, DAST, SCA, and container vulnerability scanner tools actually work, where Veracode fits, and why false positives remain the industry's biggest problem.
5 best practices for adopting GitHub Copilot securely
GitHub Copilot has 1.3M+ paid seats. Five concrete, evidence-based practices for locking down content exclusion, licensing, code quality, and prompt injection risk.
Type-level security: the future of secure AI code generation
45% of AI-generated code fails basic security tests. Here's why type systems catch what code review misses, and how to enforce type-level security on AI-authored diffs.
Snyk VulnBench: benchmarking LLMs on repeat vulnerability discovery
Snyk's VulnBench JS 1.0 ran 300 repeated LLM scans and found half of non-reference findings vanish on rerun—raising the bar for AI security tooling.
What is SAST? Static Application Security Testing explained
SAST scans source code for vulnerabilities before deployment. Learn how it works, where it fits vs. DAST/SCA, its false-positive limits, and 2026 tooling.
SAST vs DAST vs SCA: choosing the right tool
SAST, DAST, and SCA each answer a different security question — here's what each catches, when to run them, and how to prioritize the flood of findings.
Top SAST solutions compared for 2026
Comparing Safeguard and Mend.io on SAST scope, CI/CD fit, and compliance coverage—what's verifiable, what to test yourself, and how a unified platform changes the tradeoffs.
Command injection in Python: examples and prevention
Python command injection lets attackers run arbitrary OS commands via os.system() or subprocess. Learn how it works, a real CVE, and how to prevent it.
Code injection in Python: examples and prevention
How Python code injection (CWE-94) works, real CVEs like PyYAML's CVE-2020-14343, and concrete steps to detect and fix it before attackers do.