How do you test that your AI coding assistant controls actually work?
A control you have not tested is a guess. Seven quick tests for AI coding assistant settings: exclusion, deny rules, secrets, review gates, logging.
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A control you have not tested is a guess. Seven quick tests for AI coding assistant settings: exclusion, deny rules, secrets, review gates, logging.
Test session management by checking cookie flags, a new session ID after login, server-side logout invalidation, and enforced idle and absolute timeouts.
Test JWT handling by sending tampered, unsigned, expired and wrong-audience tokens and confirming the API rejects each one with an authentication error.
Test SSRF by giving each URL parameter an address you control and an internal address, then verify fixes use allowlists, redirect limits and DNS checks.
Test SQL injection on a staging copy with fake data using quote and boolean probes on each parameter, then fix it with parameterized queries.
Test BOLA with two accounts: use account A's token on account B's object IDs for read, update and delete. Any success means the ownership check is missing.
Test file upload security with disallowed types, double extensions, wrong content types and oversized files, then check where files are stored and served.
Test CORS by sending different Origin headers and checking that only approved origins are echoed, wildcards never pair with credentials, and Vary is set.
Scanner results depend on the data behind them. Test coverage, freshness and quality of advisory data with a short repeatable experiment before you buy.
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