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Cyber Security Academy · Lesson

Secure Code Review Techniques

Identify security issues in code review: data flows, trust boundaries, dangerous APIs, and missing controls.

The Goal of Secure Code Review

Secure code review identifies security vulnerabilities in source code before deployment. Unlike functional code review, it focuses on trust boundaries, data flows, dangerous APIs, missing controls, and security logic errors — not correctness or style.

Manual vs Automated Review

Automated SAST tools (Semgrep, SonarQube, CodeQL) catch known patterns quickly but miss business logic flaws, complex multi-component vulnerabilities, and context-dependent issues. Manual review catches what automation misses. Both are necessary.

All lessons in this course

  1. Input Validation and Output Encoding
  2. Secure Dependency Management
  3. OWASP ASVS: Application Security Verification Standard
  4. Secure Code Review Techniques
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