security-best-practices

Perform dynamic application security testing with OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, and Nikto.

Ghost Security - SAST code scanner.

This skill covers integrating OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) for Dynamic Application Security Testing in CI/CD pipelines.

This skill covers integrating Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools—CodeQL and Semgrep—into GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.

This skill covers implementing Software Composition Analysis (SCA) using Snyk to detect vulnerable open-source dependencies in CI/CD pipelines.

Perform static application security testing with tools like Semgrep, CodeQL, and SonarQube.

Configure GitHub Advanced Security with CodeQL to perform automated static analysis and vulnerability detection across repositories at enterprise scale.

Write custom Semgrep SAST rules in YAML to detect application-specific vulnerabilities, enforce coding standards, and integrate into CI/CD pipelines.

A cryptographic audit systematically reviews an application's use of cryptographic primitives, protocols, and key management to identify vulnerabilities such…

Implements secure API key generation, storage, rotation, and revocation controls to protect API authentication credentials from leakage, brute force, and abuse.

Implements security controls at the API gateway layer including authentication enforcement, rate limiting, request validation, IP allowlisting, TLS…

Implements API rate limiting and throttling controls using token bucket, sliding window, and fixed window algorithms to protect against brute force attacks…