A security team at a financial services company is establishing a secure code review process. Which approach would be MOST effective in identifying security vulnerabilities in custom-developed applications?
Relying on Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) to identify code-level vulnerabilities
Implementing Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools integrated with the development pipeline
Implementing pair programming for code development tasks
Using code quality metrics to evaluate adherence to coding standards
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is the most effective approach for identifying security vulnerabilities during code review because it analyzes source code, bytecode, or binary code without executing the application. SAST tools can scan the entire codebase to detect potential security issues such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, and other coding flaws early in the development lifecycle.
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tests running applications and is complementary to SAST but doesn't analyze the actual code. Manual pair programming is valuable for knowledge transfer but isn't comprehensive for vulnerability detection. Code quality metrics focus primarily on maintainability rather than security vulnerabilities.
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