From the course: Static Application Security Testing

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Security frameworks

Security frameworks

- [Narrator] Sir Isaac Newton said it best. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." So much of the security testing knowledge that we rely on today was pioneered by those who came before us, people who recognize the risks inherent in relying on technology, especially when someone with malicious intent could make that technology act in a way that its creators never intended. Security frameworks are excellent examples of that accumulated knowledge put to paper. Static application security testing happens where development methodologies and security methodologies intersect. Developers and security professionals both want the same thing. We want applications to do what they were intended to do, but developers approach this from a functional standpoint. Can we make the application do a thing? Security professionals approach this from a defensive standpoint. Can we prevent bad actors from…

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