Have you ever wondered how experienced programmers find bugs in someone else’s code just by looking at it? They look for patterns. They know that if user data goes straight into an SQL query — that’s bad. If a password is compared with a plain == instead of a secure function — that’s a risk.
But a person can’t review 100,000 lines of code without missing something. This is where SAST (Static Application Security Testing) comes in.
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