secure-code-review
Safeguard articles tagged "secure-code-review" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
16 articles
Concrete guardrails for AI coding assistants
40% of Copilot-generated code contained CWE Top 25 flaws in a 2022 study. Here are the prompt, scanning, and review gates that actually stop AI-written risk.
AI code review: what it actually catches versus misses
GitClear's 211M-line study found copy-pasted code rose from 8.3% to 12.3% of changes from 2020 to 2024 — even as AI reviewers flag more comments, the defects that matter most still slip through.
Why AI-generated code quality problems compound into security risk
Developers using AI coding assistants wrote less secure code in 4 of 5 tasks in a 2023 Stanford study — and were more confident it was safe.
The Secure Code Review Checklist Every Team Should Use
A practical secure code review checklist for 2026 — what to look for in auth, input handling, secrets, dependencies, and business logic, plus how to scale review with automation and AI.
How to Do a Secure Code Review: A Practical 2026 Guide
A practical 2026 walkthrough of secure code review — the process, the checklist, the real tools that automate it, how reachability prioritizes findings, and where Safeguard fits.
GitHub Copilot code security: XSS vulnerabilities found in React
Copilot commonly suggests dangerouslySetInnerHTML and unsanitized DOM writes in React. Here's the data on AI-generated XSS risk and how to catch it.
Mapping AI-generated code risks to the CWE Top 25
45% of AI-generated code fails security tests. Here's how CWE Top 25 weaknesses like XSS, SQLi, and broken auth map to specific LLM coding habits.
What is Secure Code Review
Secure code review finds exploitable flaws in source code before they ship. Here's what it actually checks, how it differs from SAST, and when it should happen.
What is a Business Logic Vulnerability
Business logic vulnerabilities exploit correct code enforcing the wrong rules. Learn what they are, real breach examples, and how to detect them.
What is Vibe Coding (and Its Security Risks)
Vibe coding lets AI write entire apps from a prompt with little human review — here's what it is, real incidents it's caused, and how to detect the risk.
Memory Leak Vulnerabilities: Causes and Detection
Memory leaks aren't just a performance bug — from Heartbleed to Samba's CVE-2018-16851, they're a documented attack surface. Here's how they're caused, scored, and detected.
Java Code Security: A Practical Checklist
Java code security has a specific set of recurring failure modes — deserialization, XXE, dependency sprawl — this checklist covers the ones worth checking on every review.