How to Automate OWASP Security Reviews in Your Pull Requests

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Web apps are now being used extensively and hence are given utmost importance by organizations in terms of security. The nature of cyber threats has changed, and so have security reviews in pull requests : nowadays, they should be automated. In this blog, we will understand how to automate the OWASP security checks using AI-powered tools (such as Fynix Code Quality Agent) and other tools.What is OWASP and Why Should You Know It?OWASP is the Open Web Application Security Project, providing developers with guidelines and tools to build secure applications.

The OWASP Top 10 lists the most serious security vulnerabilities, such as:

Broken Access Control

Cryptographic Failures

Injection Attacks

Insecure Design

Security Misconfiguration

Vulnerable and Aging Components

Missing Function Level Access Control

Failure of Software and Data Integrity

Lack of Proper Logging and Monitoring

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerabilities

Manually scanning code for these vulnerabilities is time-consuming and error-prone. Automated security reviews streamline protection.

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Automate OWASP Security Checks with Fynix Code Quality Agent

Enter the Fynix Code Quality Agent, an AI-based pull request reviewer that scans code changes and flags issues like security vulnerabilities. It is not an OWASP-specific scanner but will help you discover and remediate vulnerabilities early in the development cycle.

Key Features:

Automated Pull Request Reviews—Flags security vulnerabilities and suggests Fixes
Code Quality Insights — Enforces coding best practices
Organization-Wide Dashboard—Shows overview of code quality throughout projects

What it does to aid OWASP security reviews:

Finds authentication weaknesses (such as password policy that is weak)

Identifies hardcoded secrets and inadequate encryption configurations

Recognizes SQL injection and other inputs not validated

Detects insecure API design, security misconfigurations

Coming Soon: Fynix Security Agent

Fynix is an open-source project, maintaining a Security Agent in the hopes of providing deeper runner security information such as:

AWASP specific vulnerability checks: AI written code vs human-expert written code

Enabling security scans at every stage of one’s development pipelines

Adding Security-Specific Tools to Fynix

A full OWASP security scan must be complemented with other tools such as:

Snyk — Scans for dependency vulnerabilities

SonarQube — Offers static code analysis to detect security vulnerabilities

CodeQL—Executes deep security scans to find vulnerabilities in code

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Conclusion

CORS in Chrome: Developers Augment Security Stack with OWASP Security Scan Automations in PRs Adding Fynix Security Agent to Fynix Code Quality Agent, we offer not only automated feedback, but also fully integrated security. Thus, with these tools and in combination with specialized security tools, app security can be made very strong along with OWASP compliance.