Security Code Review vs Automated Security Scanning
Developers should learn and use Security Code Review when building applications that handle sensitive data, financial transactions, or user privacy to ensure compliance with security standards like OWASP Top 10 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.
Security Code Review
Developers should learn and use Security Code Review when building applications that handle sensitive data, financial transactions, or user privacy to ensure compliance with security standards like OWASP Top 10
Security Code Review
Nice PickDevelopers should learn and use Security Code Review when building applications that handle sensitive data, financial transactions, or user privacy to ensure compliance with security standards like OWASP Top 10
Pros
- +It's critical in industries such as finance, healthcare, and e-commerce to mitigate risks like data breaches and cyberattacks, and it should be integrated into CI/CD pipelines for continuous security assessment
- +Related to: static-application-security-testing, dynamic-application-security-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. Security Code Review is a methodology while Automated Security Scanning is a tool. We picked Security Code Review based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.
Based on overall popularity. Security Code Review is more widely used, but Automated Security Scanning excels in its own space.
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