---
title: Code Security
description: SAST and SCA scanning that catches vulnerable code and dependencies before they merge, with findings mapped to real exploitability, not just linter noise.
keywords:
  - code security
  - SAST
  - static application security testing
  - software composition analysis
  - secure code review
---

# Code Security

Most static analysis tools are excellent at generating findings and terrible at telling you which ones matter. Alastor InfoSec's Code Security module is built around the opposite priority: fewer, higher-confidence findings that your engineers will actually fix, instead of a backlog nobody triages.

## Static Analysis That Respects Engineering Time

Security Assessment Testing (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) are table stakes for any modern engineering org — but tools that flood pull requests with low-severity noise train developers to ignore security feedback entirely. That's the opposite of what testing is supposed to achieve.

## What We Test

- **Static Application Security Testing (SAST)** — source code analyzed for injection flaws, insecure deserialization, hardcoded secrets, unsafe cryptography, and logic errors with real exploitability, not just pattern matches.
- **Software Composition Analysis (SCA)** — every third-party dependency checked against known CVE databases, with severity re-scored against how your code actually calls the vulnerable function, not just whether the package is present.
- **Secure code review** — manual review of security-critical code paths (authentication, authorization, cryptography, payment handling) that automated tools consistently miss.
- **Language and framework-specific checks** — tuned rulesets for the stacks you actually run, rather than generic rules that don't understand your framework's built-in protections.

## Human-Verified, Not Just Automated

Every SAST/SCA finding that reaches your dashboard has been triaged against real exploitability before it's reported — the same discipline our red team applies to manual engagements. This is also how Alastor InfoSec researchers have contributed to responsibly disclosed CVEs in widely used software: by treating "the scanner flagged it" as the start of the investigation, not the end of it.

Code Security runs continuously alongside [GitHub Security](/features/github-security), so commit-level hygiene (secrets, IaC, dependency confusion) and code-level vulnerability analysis are part of the same pipeline instead of two separate tools your team has to reconcile.

## Who Needs This

Any team shipping production code benefits from continuous SAST/SCA — but it matters most for teams under compliance pressure, where SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS audits increasingly expect evidence of secure development practices, not just a penetration test report once a year.

[Talk to our team](/about-us) about adding continuous code security scanning to your pipeline.