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This post explores the evolution from manual code review to automated security testing, covering:
- The reality of manual code review and its limitations
- Understanding vulnerabilities vs weaknesses
- How SAST tools work under the hood
- Taint analysis and data flow tracking
- Sink-to-source vs source-to-sink methodologies
- Mitigation strategies: whitelisting vs blacklisting
- Dealing with false positives in practice
- Choosing and implementing SAST tools at scale
- The complementary relationship between manual and automated testing
It’s 3 AM. You’re on your fifth cup of coffee, eyes bloodshot, staring at line 2,847 of a 10,000-line pull request. Somewhere in this maze of curly braces and semicolons lurks a SQL injection vulnerability that could bring down your entire application. Welcome to the glamorous world of manual code review!
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