Original Post: Approaching a Secure Code Review. While trying to understand how to… | by Mahesh Chandrappa | May, 2024
Secure code review is an important part of the software development lifecycle to identify vulnerabilities early on. It should be performed in the development and maintenance phases, alongside automated scans using SAST and SCA tools. When approaching a secure code review, it is important to understand the flow of the application, validate user inputs, check for authentication and authorization, prevent SQL injection attacks, implement context-aware output encoding, set security headers, secure configurations, and avoid exposing sensitive information in logs. Automated scans may provide findings, but it is important to focus on resolving true positives.
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