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Application & OT Security · Foundational

Secure Code Review

Manual examination of source code to find security flaws, often focused on high-risk components and guided by checklists and tool output.

Definition

Reviewers focus on authentication, authorization, input handling, crypto, error handling and business logic, which automated tools handle poorly. Effective reviews are risk-based, use checklists such as the OWASP Code Review Guide and combine with SAST results.

Example

A reviewer checks every new API controller for an ownership check before data access.

Exam tip

Manual review finds logic and authorization flaws that SAST misses.

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