Source code analysis scanners
This is one of the first and common way to minimize the security risk while applications going to production. Source code analysis scanner also known as Static Application Security Testing (SAST) will help to find security issues by analyzing the source code of the application. This kind of tools and testing methodology allows developers to scan their code for security vulnerabilities repeatedly and automatically in the process of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).
There are multiple stages we can introduce these tools to effectively identify security vulnerabilities like integrated with IDE (code editors such as Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and so on) and integrating in CI/CD process tools (Jenkins, ...
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