Code Security
Overview
For development, operations, and security teams overwhelmed by a growing backlog of reported security vulnerabilities, Code Security solutions deliver runtime-based prioritization of vulnerabilities with a platform approach to remediation. A unified, end-to-end solutions allow teams to focus on fixing vulnerabilities that matter, with clear visibility into remediation progress across the software development lifecycle.
Find and fix code vulnerabilities whenever they appear with Static Code Analysis (SAST)
- Integrate Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with any CI platform provider of your choice or perform scans directly to ensure code security and quality are baked in from the beginning
- Apply suggested code fixes from inline pull request comments during code review to embed security into development workflows
- Detect and fix vulnerabilities as code is being written with real-time feedback and remediation within your IDE
- Built-in support for OWASP Top 10 and CWE classifications.
- Tech debt measurement, code smells, and maintainability tracking.
- Deep integration with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket.
- IDE support via plugins (IntelliJ, VS Code).
- Branch-based scanning and quality gates.
Secure your software supply chain and open source libraries from development to production with Software Composition Analysis
- Track vulnerable open source library usage in both your repositories and your services with static and runtime analysis in a single offering
- Prioritize open source library vulnerabilities with the solutions Severity Score, which factors in environment, CVSS , and real-time threat activity
Detect and fix issues faster in runtime and production code with observability context from Runtime Code Analysis (IAST)
- Eliminate false positives with an Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) approach that achieves a 100% OWASP Benchmark score—plus over 20 security checks beyond OWASP
- Improve the signal-to-noise ratio in your security backlogs with the Severity Score, which factors in environment, CVSS, and real-time threat activity
- Maintain an accurate, up-to-date view of your attack surface by monitoring data flow through runtime code execution paths.
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Instrumentation: IAST tools inject lightweight sensors and agents into the application’s code.
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Runtime Monitoring: As the application runs during testing, these sensors continuously monitor code execution and how data moves through the system.
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Real-Time Feedback: The sensors generate real-time analysis, identifying specific lines of code where vulnerabilities reside and providing detailed information for quick and accurate fixes.
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Contextual Analysis: IAST understands both the code structure and the runtime behavior, providing a comprehensive and accurate view of potential security flaws.
Penetrate an application from the outside by checking its exposed interfaces for vulnerabilities and flaws (DAST)
Dynamic Application Security Testing is a web application security technology designed to identify security holes in applications. It does this by observing how the application responds to specially crafted requests that mimic attacks. DAST tools are also known as web scanners and the OWASP foundation refers to them as web application vulnerability scanners.
The DAST methodology attempts to replicate the labor of a manual Penetration tester probing the application for weaknesses. This can be extremely beneficial, however if security and speed are important for the system, then legacy application security technologies may not be the best fit. Dynamic Application Security Testing has several shortcomings such as poor coverage of security risks, lengthy scans, and lack of actionable advice for developers. As a result, a dynamic code analysis scan is essential to complement the variety of other security measures and tools. Overall, DAST technology is extremely inefficient, so we’ve come up with a solution.
IaC security solutions use automated tools to scan infrastructure code for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations (IaC)
How IaC Security Solutions Work
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Shift-Left Security:
The primary goal is to catch security flaws in IaC (like Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) during development, before they are deployed to production. -
Automated Scanning:
Tools scan IaC templates for security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, compliance violations, and other policy breaches. -
Continuous Monitoring:
Security checks are integrated into developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines to provide ongoing security coverage - IaC Security provides a built-in customizable dashboards to help you monitor your organization’s IaC security posture over time. Break down and filter findings by repositories, teams, and environments to analyze trends, identify recurring issues, and align security goals with engineering velocity.
Key Components & Practices
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Configuration Auditors:
Software that inspects IaC code to find potential security issues.
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Policy-as-Code:
Using tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA) to define and enforce security policies that are applied to infrastructure code.
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Version Control Integration:
IaC security tools integrate with code repositories (like Git) to scan changes as they are committed.
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CI/CD Pipeline Integration:
Security checks become a required step in the automated build, test, and deployment process.
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RBAC and Secret Management:
Implementing granular access controls for infrastructure and securing sensitive data like API keys and passwords used in code.
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Vulnerability Prioritization & Remediation:
Tools help prioritize detected issues and often provide guidance on how to fix them in the code itself.
Scope remediation responsibility down to individual teams via service-to-code correlation
Triage next steps with remediation owners via status management and suggested fixes
Group and filter vulnerabilities by service, team, and repository for comprehensive remediation tracking