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Read the blog →SAST, or Static Application Security Testing, analyzes an application's source code, bytecode, or binaries for security flaws without running the program. It is a white-box technique that inspects code from the inside to catch issues like injection flaws and insecure patterns early. SAST runs in the development pipeline before code is deployed.
SAST shifts security left: it flags vulnerable code as developers write it, often inside the IDE or on every pull request, where fixes are cheapest. It can pinpoint the exact file and line.
Because it reasons about code paths it cannot always execute, SAST is prone to false positives and cannot find runtime or configuration issues. It pairs with DAST, which tests the running application from the outside.
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SAST tends to arrive in a compliance programme as a control about secure development. The auditor is not asking whether you own a scanner; they are asking whether findings are triaged and whether anything blocks a release.
The failure mode is noise. A SAST tool switched on across a large codebase produces thousands of findings, the team learns to ignore the dashboard, and the control exists on paper only.
Partly. Tooling alone does not. What evidences the control is the process around it: triage, ownership, remediation timelines and evidence that they were met.
SAST is usually easier to introduce because it runs in the pipeline without a deployed environment. DAST catches a different class of issue and most mature programmes end up running both.