SAST and DAST in CI/CD — Automated Vulnerability Detection

Here's the uncomfortable math of security: your codebase grows every day, but the number of eyeballs reviewing it for vulnerabilities doesn't scale at the same rate. You can't manually review every line of code for security issues. You need machines doing it for you, automatically, on every commit.

That's what SAST and DAST do. They're the automated security guards that check your code and your running application for vulnerabilities — and they fit right into the CI/CD pipeline you're already using.

SAST vs. DAST — Two Angles of Attack

SAST (Static Application Security Testing) analyzes your source code without running it. Think of it as a security-focused linter. It reads your code, follows the data flow, and flags patterns that could be vulnerable.

**DAST (Dynamic Application