The Qwiet blog

To the developers building the future, You’re here to ship product, write great code, and solve real problems, not to spend hours chasing down vulnerabilities or second-guessing every commit. Too often, security has been treated like a burden to carry. Static tools overload you with false positives, legacy scanners slow you down, and teams are […]

Key Takeaways While IDE tools are beneficial for providing immediate feedback, their scope is limited. They excel at catching fundamental issues early in development, such as missing input validation, insecure function usage, or weak defaults. However, they cannot see system-wide interactions, merged branches, or production configurations. This limitation underscores the need for a more comprehensive […]

The rise of AI-generated code has indeed been a productivity breakthrough. However, it has also ushered in a new class of threat that most security teams are not adequately prepared for: the urgent and looming danger of slopsquatting. What Is Slopsquatting? Slopsquatting is a novel and unprecedented supply chain attack that exploits a flaw in […]

Developers build. It’s what they do best. But when security enters the equation, teams face a pivotal question: Should we develop our security tooling or buy something purpose-built? Let’s be honest. Building your tools can feel empowering. You know your stack, your risks, your workflow. But internal security systems aren’t just hard, they’re risky. And […]

Key Takeaways As a software developer, security professional, or technical decision-maker, it is essential to recognize that internal code is not inherently secure; it is often unscanned. Custom frameworks and in-house libraries frequently do not appear in public CVE databases and typically do not match known patterns, making them invisible to most rule-based application security […]

Key Takeaways While promising immediate feedback, real-time scanning often creates ‘noise’ without context. This ‘noise’ refers to the excessive and irrelevant alerts that tools running in the IDE or pre-save phase can generate. These tools may flag unreachable or non-exploitable code, leading to alert fatigue and dev pushback. CI/CD scanning, with its promise of higher […]

Key Takeaways All-in-one platforms trade depth for surface-level coverage: Bundling SAST, DAST, IAST, RAST, and ASPM into a single tool often leads to overlap in low-risk areas (e.g., basic code vulnerabilities) and blind spots in high-risk ones (e.g., complex business logic vulnerabilities). Context-aware tools, which understand an application’s specific context, outperform general-purpose scanners: These tools […]

Key Takeaways Static tools miss logic-driven vulnerabilities. Traditional SAST tools flag obvious syntax-level risks but fail to understand business rules, multi-tenant boundaries, or the actual intent behind code behavior. Qwiet’s comprehensive analysis traces full execution paths across helpers, middleware, and services. Modeling code as a connected graph uncovers hidden risks buried in trusted-looking utilities, such […]

After years of uncovering investment and retail banking fraud, I’ve developed a finely tuned radar for risk disguised as innovation. So when security vendors market “community rules” as a revolutionary leap forward, my fraud-detection instincts go haywire. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a potential threat masquerading as transparency. Let’s be clear: regulated financial institutions […]