Manual Security Reviews vs Automated Security Scanning

Developers should learn and use Manual Security Reviews when building high-risk applications (e meets developers should use automated security scanning to integrate security into their devops workflows (devsecops), ensuring continuous security assessment throughout development and deployment. Here's our take.

Manual Security Reviews

Nice Pick

Developers should learn and use Manual Security Reviews when building high-risk applications (e

Pros

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• Related to: secure-coding, penetration-testing

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Automated Security Scanning

Developers should use automated security scanning to integrate security into their DevOps workflows (DevSecOps), ensuring continuous security assessment throughout development and deployment

Pros

• It is critical for compliance with standards like OWASP Top 10, PCI-DSS, or GDPR, and for preventing costly breaches in production environments by catching vulnerabilities in code, containers, APIs, or infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Related to: static-application-security-testing, dynamic-application-security-testing

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

These tools serve different purposes. Manual Security Reviews is a methodology while Automated Security Scanning is a tool. We picked Manual Security Reviews based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.

The Bottom Line

Manual Security Reviews wins

Based on overall popularity. Manual Security Reviews is more widely used, but Automated Security Scanning excels in its own space.