Introduction

GuardRails Code detects security vulnerabilities in your code base by leveraging Static Application Security Testing (SAST).

Static Application Security Testing (SAST):

SAST is a proactive security testing method that scans your application's codebase to identify potential vulnerabilities before the application is deployed or executed. By incorporating SAST into your development process, you can uncover security risks early on, allowing your team to address them more efficiently.

Key Benefits:

1. Early Detection: GuardRails Code helps identify vulnerabilities in the development phase, allowing you to resolve them before they become a part of your production environment.
2. Reduced Risk: By detecting and fixing vulnerabilities early, GuardRails Code helps minimize the risk of security breaches and data loss.
3. Security Focus: GuardRails Code only highlights security issues. No more excessive noise and alert fatigue related to code quality issues.
4. Cost-Efficiency: Identifying vulnerabilities early in the development process is more cost-effective than fixing them after deployment.
5. Seamless Integration: GuardRails Code is automatically integrated into your development workflow, which avoids the need to set up CI/CD pipelines, GitHub actions, etc. This means all your present and future repositories are covered without requiring any additional set up.

By using GuardRails Code in your development process, you can enhance your application's security and provide a more robust and reliable product to your users.

Key Differentiators:

1. Speed: GuardRails Code has been developed with speed in mind, supporting both full scans and differential scans. The ability to perform fast, efficient scans helps developers identify and address security issues without slowing down the development process.
2. Accuracy: GuardRails Code is continuously tuned and improved with a focus on increasing accuracy, and reducing false positives.
3. Custom Rules: GuardRails Code supports custom rules for a wide range of languages by leveraging Semgrep.
4. Custom Engines: GuardRails Code supports custom engines to allow you to run your own scanning solutions on our platform.
5. Fixing Advice: Most SAST tools stop when they have identified the issue. At GuardRails, we understand that this is just the beginning. GuardRails Code comes with detailed and specific fixing advice to ensure developers can fix vulnerabilities without requiring external help.

Supported Languages:

• Android
• Apex
• C
• C++
• Elixir
• .Net
• Go
• iOS
• Java
• Javascript
• Typescript
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• Rust
• Solidity