Secure Code Scanning: Basics & Best Practices
In this article, we’ll explore the step-by-step process of code scanning, its benefits, approaches, and best practices.
Ziad Ghalleb
Ziad Ghalleb is a Technical Product Marketing Manager at Wiz, specializing in application security posture management and developer security. With over five years of experience in IT, Ziad has honed his expertise in developer tools, automation, and security, working with organizations in the secrets management and NHI security sectors. Outside work, you can find Ziad skateboarding in the streets of Paris and exploring its record stores!
Ziad Ghalleb Articles
7 Code Security Best Practices (and How to Implement Them)
Learn essential code security best practices and implement actionable tips to reduce risks and enhance protection throughout your cloud development lifecycle.
Policy as Code: Benefits, Examples, and How to Get Started
Learn how policy as code helps teams enforce security, reduce misconfigurations, and improve cloud governance with automated rules across environments.
The Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF)
NIST’s Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) is a structured approach that provides guidelines and best practices for integrating security throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).
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What Is SAST? How Static Application Security Testing Works
Learn how SAST improves your environment, how it differs from DAST, and how you can integrate it into your entire DevSecOps approach to cloud security.
What Is Secure Coding? Overview and Best Practices
Secure coding is the practice of developing software that is resistant to security vulnerabilities by applying security best practices, techniques, and tools early in development.
What is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)?
Learn the foundation of application security posture management (ASPM) and how you can apply it to improve cloud security posture. Plus, tools you can use.
The Top OSS Application Security Tools: A 2026 Comparison Guide
Explore the top OSS application security tools of 2026. Compare their features, benefits, and use cases to secure your apps and streamline DevSecOps workflows.
SAST vs DAST: How to Use Both Testing Tools for App Security
In this Academy article, we'll dig into SAST and DAST security testing methods, exploring how they work and their core aspects
SAST vs. SCA: What's the Difference?
SAST (Static Application Security Testing) analyzes custom source code to identify potential security vulnerabilities, while SCA (Software Composition Analysis) focuses on assessing third-party and open source components for known vulnerabilities and license compliance.
GitOps vs. DevOps: How GitOps Keeps You Aligned
While DevOps delineates collaboration and automation practices that emphasize infrastructure provisioning and continuous monitoring, GitOps extends its concepts by employing Git as the single source of truth for both application and infrastructure settings.
Top IaC Tools and Practices to Strengthen Code and Cloud Security
The best Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, curated by use case and categorized into CSP-specific and CSP-neutral providers.
What is a buffer overflow? Modern attacks and cloud security
A buffer overflow is a memory corruption vulnerability that allows threat actors to execute malicious code and take control of a program
Static Code Analysis
Static code analysis identifies security vulnerabilities and coding issues without executing the code, improving software quality and security.
Open-source security: Best practices and tools
Open-source security is the collection of tools and processes used to secure and manage the lifecycle of open-source software (OSS) and dependencies from development to production.
Exploring Snyk alternatives for cloud-native security teams
Snyk is a development security platform that supports risk identification and remediation across the application lifecycle. While it’s a capable tool for developer-centric use cases, there are crucial limitations when it comes to broader cloud security.
5 Essential Application Security Controls
Application security controls are technology-independent collections of policies, procedures, and standards to secure software, devices, users, network, and data.
What is Application Security testing?
Application security testing (AST) is a set of processes designed to detect and address security gaps during the early phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In other words, teams take steps in pre-production to identify and mitigate risks before applications are released into operational environments.
6 All-Too-Common Code Vulnerabilities
Code vulnerabilities are weaknesses in software that attackers can exploit, potentially compromising security.
What is Application Security (AppSec)?
Application security refers to the practice of identifying, mitigating, and protecting applications from vulnerabilities and threats throughout their lifecycle, including design, development, deployment, and maintenance.
What is Application Detection and Response (ADR)?
Application detection and response (ADR) is an approach to application security that centers on identifying and mitigating threats at the application layer.
Source Code Security: Basics and Best Practices
Source code security refers to the practice of protecting and securing the source code of an application from vulnerabilities, threats, and unauthorized access.
What is SecDevOps? + How It Differs From DevSecOps
SecDevOps is essentially DevOps with an emphasis on moving security further left. DevOps involves both the development team and the operations team in one process to improve deployment performance and service customers faster.
Secrets Detection: A Fast-Track Guide
Secrets detection is the process of identifying and managing sensitive information like API keys, passwords, and tokens within codebases to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches.
What is Security as Code (SaC)?
Security as Code (SaC) is a methodology that integrates security measures directly into the software development process. It involves codifying security policies and decisions, and automating security checks, tests, and gates within the DevOps pipeline.
Ziad Ghalleb Posts
From Detection to Remediation: It’s Time to Rethink AppSec Around Exploitability and Root Cause Fixes
Learn how Wiz is fundamentally changing AppSec by using the Security Graph to connect validated runtime vulnerabilities directly back to source code. Stop chasing alerts and fix what’s truly exploitable.
The Foundation Modern AppSec Is Still Missing: Code to Cloud, Rebuilt the Right Way
See every risk, from the first line of code to what’s running in production. No resource tagging. No CI/CD hacks. Just automatic, reliable traceability both developers and security teams can act on.
Secrets Found. Owners Identified. Issues Fixed.
Wiz closes the loop on exposed secrets with blast radius context, ownership intelligence, and actionable, AI-powered fixes.
The Overlooked Attack Surface: Securing Code Repositories, Pipelines, and Developer Infrastructure
Learn how Wiz for ASPM extends security to developer infrastructure by continuously enforcing secure defaults and detecting threats across the software supply chain.
Developers Deserve Better: Why Wiz Code Is Built for You.
Wiz Code helps developers integrate security into their workflow, with real-time guidance from code to cloud. Reduce last-minute fixes. Build with confidence.
Your control tower to secure code across GitHub, GitLab, and Azure Repos
Secure your code and the entire development pipeline with the Wiz Security Graph, comprehensive configuration checks, and advanced code scanning.
Sail Further with Wiz Cost Optimization for Amazon EKS
Learn how Wiz's latest feature identifies outdated EKS clusters, helping organizations save millions on cloud spend. Find out how to optimize costs and reinvest savings in strategic initiatives.