secure-code-review
Safeguard articles tagged "secure-code-review" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
19 articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do Code Review Practices Need to Change When Half the Cod...
AI now writes up to half of production code. Here is why traditional code review breaks down on AI output, and what teams need to change.
How to Run an Application Security Code Review That Catches Real Bugs
An application security code review is a targeted read of code for security defects. Here is a practical process that finds real issues without drowning in noise.
Whitebox Testing Explained: A Practical Security Guide
Whitebox testing is a testing approach where the tester has full access to source code, architecture, and internals, which makes it powerful for finding security flaws early. Here is how it works and where it fits.
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