Pragmatic Application Security
Thoughts on Secure Software Development
As someone who has been working with IAST long before it was actually called this way – Fortify released its Program Trace Analyzer (PTA) approximately in the year 2008 – I have followed the evolution of this technology closely and posted a couple of times on it as well. For me, IAST was always not … Read more
Tools that test code for common vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top Ten fall today in three categories of AST (Application Security Testing) tools: SAST (static code scanning), DAST (dynamic app scan), and IAST (dynamic code scanning). Consequently, there are not a few but a lot of tools, especially in SAST and DAST areas, both commercial … Read more
I’m often asked how security tests can be automated with non-commercial tools, e.g. triggered by a Jenkins build. Therefore I decided to write this post, to give you a bit of understanding which tools you can use and what you have to do in order to accomplish this goal. To not over complicate this, I … Read more