# Best Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Software - Page 5 *By [Lauren Worth](https://research.g2.com/insights/author/lauren-worth)* Static application security testing (SAST) software inspects and analyzes an application’s code to discover security vulnerabilities without actually executing code. These tools are frequently used by companies with [continuous delivery](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-delivery) practices to identify flaws prior to deployment. SAST tools provide vulnerability information and remediation suggestions for development teams to resolve. There is relation and overlap between SAST tools and [static code analysis](https://www.g2.com/categories/static-code-analysis) software, but SAST products are more focused on security testing. Static code analysis products, on the other hand, combine a number of analytical practices, test management, and team collaboration features. [SAST vs DAST](https://research.g2.com/blog/sast-vs-dast) — Learn the difference To qualify for inclusion in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, a product must: - Test applications to identify vulnerabilities - Not execute code during testing, or have the ability to run static tests - Provide information on relative vulnerabilities and exploits ## Best Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Software At A Glance - **Leader:** [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - **Highest Performer:** [Kiuwan Code Security & Insights](https://www.g2.com/products/kiuwan-code-security-insights/reviews) - **Easiest to Use:** [GitGuardian](https://www.g2.com/products/gitguardian/reviews) - **Top Trending:** [Aikido Security](https://www.g2.com/products/aikido-security/reviews) - **Best Free Software:** [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) --- **Sponsored** ### Proscan Proscan is a unified application security platform designed to help organizations streamline the management of their security tools. By integrating multiple standalone solutions into a single cohesive experience, Proscan provides comprehensive security visibility across the entire software stack. This platform replaces the complexity of managing various tools for static analysis, dynamic testing, and dependency scanning, allowing teams to focus on building secure applications without the hassle of juggling disparate systems. The platform is particularly beneficial for security teams, developers, and engineering leaders who require a consolidated view of application security risks. Proscan combines nine specialized security scanners, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), which analyzes source code in over 30 programming languages using advanced detection methods. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) further enhances security by testing live applications, identifying vulnerabilities that may only become apparent during runtime. Additionally, Software Composition Analysis (SCA) evaluates open-source dependencies across 196 package ecosystems, helping organizations detect known vulnerabilities before they can impact production environments. Proscan's capabilities extend beyond code analysis. It includes scanning for hardcoded secrets, misconfigurations in Infrastructure-as-Code, and vulnerabilities in container images. The platform also offers API security testing that validates endpoints against the OWASP API Security Top 10, ensuring robust protection for applications that leverage APIs. For organizations developing AI-powered applications, Proscan features a dedicated AI and LLM security scanner that identifies potential risks associated with prompt injections and other vulnerabilities, utilizing over 4,600 techniques mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10. Artificial intelligence plays a crucial role in enhancing Proscan's efficiency and accuracy. The platform employs machine-learning algorithms to reduce false positives and prioritize vulnerabilities based on their potential impact. This intelligent approach allows teams to focus on the most critical security issues while providing clear explanations and actionable remediation guidance. Proscan integrates seamlessly into existing development workflows, offering IDE plugins and native CI/CD integrations that ensure security checks are part of the development process without causing disruptions. Compliance readiness is another key feature of Proscan, as it generates audit-ready reports aligned with major security standards, including OWASP Top 10, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. This automated evidence collection simplifies the compliance process, providing organizations with the necessary documentation in various formats. Proscan is designed for security teams looking to consolidate fragmented toolchains, developers needing quick feedback, and managed security service providers managing multiple client environments, making it a versatile solution for modern application security challenges. 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[SpectralOps](https://www.g2.com/products/spectralops/reviews) Discover, classify, and protect your codebases, logs, and other assets. Monitor and detect API keys, tokens, credentials, high-risk security misconfiguration and more. **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Check Point Software Technologies](https://www.g2.com/sellers/check-point-software-technologies) - **Year Founded:** 1993 - **HQ Location:** Redwood City, CA - **Twitter:** @CheckPointSW (70,927 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/check-point-software-technologies/ (8,356 employees on LinkedIn®) - **Ownership:** NASDAQ:CHKP ### 2. [Splint](https://www.g2.com/products/splint/reviews) Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security vulnerabilities and coding mistakes. With minimal effort, Splint can be used as a better lint. If additional effort is invested adding annotations to programs, Splint can perform stronger checking than can be done by any standard lint. **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Splint](https://www.g2.com/sellers/splint) - **HQ Location:** N/A - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/No-Linkedin-Presence-Added-Intentionally-By-DataOps (1 employees on LinkedIn®) ### 3. [SpotBugs](https://www.g2.com/products/spotbugs/reviews) The SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications can detect 131 different vulnerability types with over 811 unique API signatures. **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [SpotBugs](https://www.g2.com/sellers/spotbugs) - **HQ Location:** N/A - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/No-Linkedin-Presence-Added-Intentionally-By-DataOps (1 employees on LinkedIn®) ### 4. [ThunderScan](https://www.g2.com/products/thunderscan/reviews) DefenseCode ThunderScan® is a SAST (Static Application Security Testing, WhiteBox Testing) solution for performing deep and extensive security analysis of application source code. ThunderScan® is easy to use, requires almost no user input and can be deployed during or after development with easy integration into your DevOps environment and CI/CD pipeline. Our SAST solution provides an excellent way to automate code inspection as an alternative to the demanding and time-consuming procedure of manual code reviews. Find out why large enterprises are replacing their current SAST solutions with DefenseCode ThunderScan® SAST. With DefenseCode ThunderScan® SAST it is possible to scan millions of source code lines across 29 different programming languages and various programming frameworks within hours or even minutes. Scalability combined with repeatability of automation provides an easy and painless way to introduce security into your DevOps for organizations ranging from small development teams up to the largest enterprises. ThunderScan® includes a Dependency Check component (Software Composition Analysis – SCA) that will detect publicly disclosed vulnerabilities contained within a project’s dependencies with associated CVE entries. Application source code security analysis has proven consistently to be the most comprehensive way to ensure that your application is free of security vulnerabilities (SQL Injections, Cross Site Scripting, Path/Directory Traversal, Code Injection, and many more.). With ThunderScan® SAST it is very easy to meet the compliance standards requirements such as PCI-DSS, SANS/CWE Top 25, OWASP Top 10, HIPPA, HITRUST or NIST. ThunderScan® SAST easy to use and very powerful REST API allows you to customize source code scanning and scale across large number of scanning agents. DefenseCode ThunderScan® has repeatedly recognized its effectiveness by discovering critical vulnerabilities in well known open source application. **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [DefenseCode](https://www.g2.com/sellers/defensecode) - **HQ Location:** N/A - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/No-Linkedin-Presence-Added-Intentionally-By-DataOps (1 employees on LinkedIn®) ### 5. [TrueCode](https://www.g2.com/products/truecode/reviews) TrueCode is a static application security testing solution. **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [SiteLock](https://www.g2.com/sellers/sitelock) - **Year Founded:** 2008 - **HQ Location:** Scottsdale, AZ - **Twitter:** @SiteLock (2,440 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/2204357/ (89 employees on LinkedIn®) ### 6. [TruStacks](https://www.g2.com/products/trustacks/reviews) TruStacks is a software delivery engine that offers standardized, efficient DevOps workflows to help teams ship products faster and more frequently. **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Cornerstone Technical Solutions](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cornerstone-technical-solutions) - **Year Founded:** 2012 - **HQ Location:** Wake Forest, US - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cornerstone-technical-solutions-llc (5 employees on LinkedIn®) ### 7. [we45](https://www.g2.com/products/we45/reviews) AppSec Testing(AST) - Whatever your motivation, a proactive security push or a compliance compulsion, our AST service can help keep your application secure against external threats. Security Automation - Secure your agile Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) without compromising on quality or time. AppSec Training - Our numerous/variegated training offerings help product teams gain the security understanding necessary to keep their deployments secure. Orchestron - Make Application Security efficient with one of the most integral parts of a modern DevSecOps toolchain - An AVC engine. Threat PlayBook - A (relatively) Unopinionated framework that faciliates Threat Modeling as Code married with Application Security Automation on a single Fabric. Perform Iterative Threat Modeling in an Agile Environment with Threat Playbook. **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [we45](https://www.g2.com/sellers/we45) - **Year Founded:** 2019 - **HQ Location:** San Jose, US - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1155059 (37 employees on LinkedIn®) ### 8. [YAG-Suite](https://www.g2.com/products/yag-suite/reviews) YAGAAN is a french startup established in 2017 and located in the Brittany Cyber Valley. In the SAST landscape, the YAG-Suite offers unique features to auditors and developers that only machine learning can bring on top of static analysis : - Smart detection of vulnerabilities - Automated qualification and hierarchization of the warnings raised by SAST, based on their likeliness to be true positives and their criticallity (individual CVSS score) - Advanced diagnostics of the detected vulnerabilities to help users understand their causes - Remediation support with recommended vulnerability fix - Code mining queries to help auditors and experts to accelerate further manual investigations The Scanner is available in saas access or on premise to be integrated in CI/CD Request your free saas trial at https://yagaan.com/en/ **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [YAGAAN](https://www.g2.com/sellers/yagaan) - **Year Founded:** 2010 - **HQ Location:** Paris, FR - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://linkedin.com/company/pradeo-security-systems (41 employees on LinkedIn®) ### 9. [ZeroNorth](https://www.g2.com/products/zeronorth/reviews) Continuous security delivery fabric for modern enterprise infrastructure. **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [ZeroNorth](https://www.g2.com/sellers/zeronorth) - **Year Founded:** 2015 - **HQ Location:** Boston, US - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/10284735/admin/ (4 employees on LinkedIn®) ## Parent Category [DevSecOps Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/devsecops) ## Related Categories - [Static Code Analysis Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/static-code-analysis) - [Software Composition Analysis Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/software-composition-analysis) - [Secure Code Review Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/secure-code-review)