<ul><li>Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools analyze source code to identify security vulnerabilities without executing the program. Bandit is a specialized open-source SAST tool designed to scan Python code for common security issues.</li><li>Python applications can suffer from vulnerabilities such as injection flaws, insecure use of cryptography, and improper handling of sensitive data. Bandit focuses on these risks by scanning Python codebases for known patterns of insecurity.</li><li>Key advantages of Bandit: Open-source and free to use, easy to integrate into existing Python projects, supports custom security plugins, generates detailed reports highlighting risky code snippets, and is lightweight and fast.</li><li>Bandit can be installed via pip, integrated into development workflows, and run on Python applications. It detects common vulnerabilities, including the use of assert statements in production code, insecure hash function usage, and subprocess calls without shell=False.</li></ul>

🔒 Bandit: Python Static Application Security Testing Guide

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