Security plays a key role whether you are onboarding customer workloads to the cloud, designing and developing a new product, or upgrading an existing service. Security is critical in every leg of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
Application security is important, as attackers and cybercriminals will target your software looking for vulnerabilities with the intent to steal data or disrupt operations. In the quest to cater to these challenges, the software industry came up with defending approaches to Application Security Testing which are broadly divided into three categories: SAST (static application security testing), DAST (dynamic application security testing), and IAST (interactive application security testing).
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