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“Security and compliance are asking questions”
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1. Application Security Testing

Because you said: “Security and compliance are asking questions”

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SnykBest fitfrom $25Free tier

Developer-first security across dependencies, code, containers and infrastructure.

Why this fits you

  • Reachability analysis dramatically cuts the noise from transitive dependency alerts.
  • Automated fix pull requests make remediation a merge rather than a project.

Main limitation

  • Per-developer pricing scales uncomfortably in large engineering organisations.
  • SAST is less deep than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
OWASP ZAPOpen source

The free, open-source DAST scanner that attacks your running application.

Why this fits you

  • Free, with no licence limits on scanning or users.
  • The baseline scan runs in CI in a couple of minutes and catches real misconfiguration.

Main limitation

  • Higher false-positive rate than commercial DAST tools.
  • Scanning authenticated, JavaScript-heavy applications requires meaningful configuration effort.
Burp Suitefrom $499Paid

The professional web security tester's tool of choice, plus an enterprise scanner.

Why this fits you

  • The reference tool for manual application penetration testing
  • Exceptional scanner accuracy, particularly for injection classes.

Main limitation

  • Community Edition is too limited for serious automated work.
  • Requires security expertise; it is not a push-button product for developers.
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2. Static Analysis & Code Quality

Because you said: “Security and compliance are asking questions”

Buyer’s guide
SonarQubeBest fitfrom $34Free tier

The static-analysis standard: 30+ languages, quality gates, clean-as-you-code.

Why this fits you

  • Clean-as-you-code is the only quality-gate model that reliably works on legacy codebases.
  • Very broad language coverage from one tool and one gate.

Main limitation

  • Branch and pull-request analysis — the feature most teams actually need — is paid only.
  • Default rule sets are noisy until tuned to the team.
ESLintOpen source

The JavaScript and TypeScript linter every project ends up using.

Why this fits you

  • The plugin ecosystem lets you enforce almost any convention as a rule.
  • Autofix handles a large share of findings without human effort.

Main limitation

  • Configuration is a real project of its own, and the flat-config migration caused significant churn.
  • Slow on large codebases without caching.
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