Today, we’re announcing AWS Security Agent in preview, a frontier agent that proactively secures your applications throughout the development lifecycle. It conducts automated application security reviews tailored to your organizational requirements and delivers context-aware penetration testing on demand. By continuously validating application security from design to deployment, it helps prevent vulnerabilities early in development.
Static application security testing (SAST) tools examine code without runtime context, whereas dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools assess running applications without application-level context. Both types of tools are one-dimensional because they don’t understand your application context. They don’t understand how your application is designed, what security threats it…
