SAST: How Code Analysis Tools Look for Security Flaws

Here we’ll discuss how SAST solutions find security flaws. I’ll tell you about different and complementary approaches to detecting potential vulnerabilities, explain why each of them is necessary, and how to turn theory into practice.

SAST (Static Application Security Testing) is used to find security defects without executing an application. While the “traditional” static analysis is the way to detect errors, SAST focuses on detecting potential vulnerabilities.