Static application security testing (SAST) is a crucial component of any software and application security strategy, and as such, a SAST tool should form a valuable part of your security stack. But when you’re choosing which SAST tool to buy and implement, what are the key factors you should consider?

When we started to build Bearer, we wanted to understand how to validate the quality of our findings and be able to benchmark it. Code security scanning solutions are notorious for reporting a lot of false positives and other deficiencies, and even though we believed we could do much better, we needed a way to prove it. In Java, there is an OWASP project, BenchmarkJava, which makes it easy to compare the output of two software security solutions.

In the 2023 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Application Security Testing, Synopsys placed highest and furthest right for the fifth consecutive year for our Ability to Execute and our Completeness of Vision.

The landscape of application development is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and changing user demands. Over the past few years, we have witnessed the rise of generative AI, the “shift left” approach, and the increasing prominence of low-code/no-code development.