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Static vs Dynamic in Application Security Testing

My previous article covers the Top 10 most critical web application and API security risks faced by the developers all over the world based on the report produced by OWASP: a non-profit organization that aims to educate people on security vulnerabilities. In this tutorial, we are going to explore and compare the differences between Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST). Security Testing (SAST) is one of the method for reducing the security vulnerabilities in your application.

It is a lot easier to scale and maintain your test since it is independent of the programming languages used in the development of your system.

While SAST is usually done at the early stage of system development life cycle and is language-dependent, DAST is not tied to any computer languages and is usually conducted at the end of the cycle.