Cybersecurity is a very important aspect of software development. It is a branch of code testing which is integral in the profitability of major tech companies around the world as highlighted in my previous article on static code analysis. Some weeks back while I was looking for ways to test my flask project for possible security vulnerabilities, I stumbled on a tool called Bandit. Bandit is a tool developed to locate and correct security problems in Python code. To do that Bandit analyzes every file, builds an AST from it, and runs suitable plugins to the AST nodes. Once Bandit has completed scanning all of the documents it generates a report.
Bandit is very useful in detecting security issues and was even featured on kali’s blog as one of the best tools in finding common security issues on your project. Now that we know what bandit is, let us look at some advantages of testing our code for security vulnerabilities.
IMPORTANCE OF SECURING OUR CODE
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