Code Security (SAST)

Overview

Xygeni's Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool provides in-depth analysis of your source code to uncover security vulnerabilities and malicious patterns before code is compiled or deployed. By scanning source files directly, Xygeni ensures early detection of flaws that could be exploited in production, enabling secure-by-design software development practices.

Through integration with DevOps workflows and developer environments, Xygeni’s SAST scanner delivers actionable insights, prioritizes critical findings and facilitates quick remediations based on secure coding guidelines and regulatory standards.

Protect Applications from Malicious Code and Vulnerabilities Early

Modern applications often combine large volumes of custom code with third-party libraries. This increases the risk of hidden vulnerabilities or intentionally inserted malicious logic. Xygeni's SAST tool is built to uncover:

• Insecure functions and APIs (e.g., use of eval(), hardcoded credentials, or unsafe deserialization).

• Input validation flaws (e.g., XSS, SQL injection, command injection).

• Misuse of cryptographic functions.

• Data leakage risks due to improper handling of secrets.

• Suspicious patterns indicative of malware or backdoors in source files.

The scanner covers multiple languages and frameworks commonly used in web, backend, and cloud-native environments.

For more information regarding Code Security, refer to these sections:

• Code Security User Interface Guide

  • Risks (SAST)

  • Malicious Code

• Malware Scanner

• SAST Scanner

Related

• API Security — static analysis of the API surface specifically. It shares SAST's parsers but reasons about endpoints rather than code paths, and applies sensitivity tagging (PII / PCI / PHI / credential) to parameters, response fields, and DTOs. Those tags are what let a data-exposure flaw be judged by what is exposed and to whom, and they carry into the Risk Graph so a SAST finding can be correlated with the endpoint that reaches it.

• API Security Scanner Configuration — sensitivity classification settings and the correlation rules that compose findings across scans.