SAST vs DAST: What is the right choice for application security testing?
The number of acronyms to keep track of today continues to grow at a rapid pace, especially in the AppSec industry. For software developers and security testers, SAST and DAST are two commonly used acronyms in the application security testing world, but are often...Vulnerability Management: Is 100% code and vulnerability coverage realistic?
In the world of application security testing, the terms “code coverage” and “vulnerability coverage” are frequently used. But what do they really mean? Essentially, code coverage is the amount of the code that is scanned to identify potential vulnerabilities in a software application. Vulnerability coverage refers to the number of defects or system misconfigurations in the software code that could pose potential threats.
Beating the AppSec Bottleneck
An article by Ken Prole, CTO of Code Dx, was published in the Security Today magazine’s April 2019 edition.
Each SAST tool only discovers about 14% of the vulnerabilities in your code
An essential element of the application development process is scanning the software to find potential vulnerabilities. Static Application Security Testing tools are notorious for returning lots of results (often thousands, even for relatively small applications), which can overwhelm a developer. But no matter how they feel about the results, software developers must understand that by running only one application security testing tool—even the best on the market—they are missing most of the weaknesses in their code.
Hybrid Application Security Testing (HAST)
Both Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) share a common goal—finding security vulnerabilities in an application. Both are an important part of a comprehensive application security process, but the perspectives and...Training slides available from the (ISC)² Metro NY branch learning event
The Code Dx team was proud to provide application security training on behalf of (ISC)² at the August 2017 Metro NY branch’s workshop and training sessions. The slides are available for download.
AST Glossary
Active Scan – is when a vulnerability scanner actively sends requests to a running application with the intent of exposing and identifying vulnerabilities. Application Security Testing (AST) – the process of identifying holes in an application’s source code throughout...Application Security Testing Slides
Application Security Testing Slides