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Technical publications from our research and advisory practice.

·7 min

IaC Scanning Tools: Checkov vs Trivy vs KICS vs Terrascan

Checkov, Trivy, KICS and Terrascan compared from their own docs: IaC formats, policy languages, exit codes, network calls and who still maintains them.

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·11 min

Pasting Source Code Into a Foreign AI: What SAMA, NCA and the PDPL Say

SAMA approvals, NCA hosting guidance, SDAIA's limits on generative AI and the PDPL's transfer rules decide whether code can go to a hosted AI service.

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·10 min

Why Most SAST Findings Are Noise, and How Multi-Model LLM Triage Changes the Math

In most published samples, most rule-based SAST findings are false. How to measure noise, what AI triage removes and misses, and how Haxset limits both.

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·8 min

What Is AI SAST? What the LLM Actually Does

What AI SAST is, what it finds that rules miss (IDOR, business logic, misconfiguration), where the LLM sits, and how to test a vendor's accuracy claim.

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·11 min

Security on Every Pull Request, and Every Week: AI CI/CD Scanning and Continuous Monitoring

Haxset scans each pull request with AI and posts labeled findings developers can fix and triage, and scheduled scans recheck your code between releases.

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·10 min

AI-Powered SAST and DAST: How LLM Agents Find & Validate Vulnerabilities in Your Code and Running Apps

How Haxset's AI SAST gives each web and mobile vulnerability class its own agent, how two models raise confidence in thorough mode, and how AI DAST works.

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