Application Security
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.
Jun 3, 20267 min read
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What Is Perimeter Protection in Application Security
Perimeter protection screens packages at the gate — but xz-utils, SolarWinds, and event-stream all slipped past firewalls. Here's what it catches, and what it misses.
Jun 2, 20267 min read
Application Security
SAST vs DAST: static and dynamic application security tes...
SAST catches insecure code before deploy; DAST tests running apps after. We compare both against JFrog's Artifactory-first model and Safeguard's supply-chain-native approach.
Jun 1, 20268 min read
Application Security
How 'Vibe Coding' Culture Is Reshaping Application Securi...
AI-assisted "vibe coding" is reshaping how much code ships and how little of it gets truly reviewed. Here's what the data shows and how AppSec teams should respond.
Jun 1, 20267 min read
Application Security
How to secure a REST API
REST API breaches from T-Mobile to Optus trace to a handful of recurring mistakes. Here's how to fix authorization, auth, injection, and rate limiting.
Jun 1, 20266 min read
Application Security
SQL injection cheat sheet: 8 best practices to prevent it
SQL injection still breaches Fortune 500s in 2026. Here are 8 concrete practices — from parameterized queries to reachability analysis — that actually stop it.
May 31, 20267 min read
Application Security
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) explained
ReDoS turns a single crafted string into an exponential-time attack. Here's how catastrophic backtracking works, real CVEs, and how to detect it.
May 29, 20265 min read
Application Security
Zip Slip vulnerability cheat sheet
A concrete, question-driven cheat sheet on Zip Slip: how the archive-extraction path traversal bug works, real CVEs, and how to detect and fix it.
May 29, 20268 min read
Application Security
Preventing path traversal (directory traversal) attacks
Path traversal lets attackers read or write files outside a web app's directory using ../ sequences. Here's how it works and how to stop it.
May 29, 20267 min read
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