PHP holds the bar as one of the most popular and sought-after technologies for web development. As W3Techs shows, PHP code is running on 76.8% of all websites around the globe. We are very excited to announce that the latest version of Bearer now supports PHP in Beta, with more than 50 rules already available, providing a good level of security risks and vulnerabilities coverage. For the PHP support in this release, we have included a strong focus on the popular Symfony framework.

2023 Summer is definitely over, but the good news is that it kept our team very busy. We have lots of new features and improvements to share with you today.

A little over 5 months ago, we launched our free and open code security product Bearer CLI to help teams identify both security and privacy risks in the earliest stages of the software development process. Please join us in celebrations, as today we are very excited to have achieved a key milestone in our journey - 100,000 code security scans!

What does a good DevSecOps pipeline should look like from a code security perspective? We hear this question often, and even though there are multiple answers, we’ve put together a blueprint that everybody could easily start with.

Often security engineers find it difficult to scale secure code review processes either due to lack of funding, adoption to smaller sprint cycles or even security engineers failing to integrate security to agile philosophy. This post talks about various ways to address such challenges.

The integration of machine learning into software development is revolutionizing the field, automating tasks and generating complex code snippets at an unprecedented scale. However, this powerful paradigm shift also presents significant challenges including the risk of introducing security flaws into the codebase. This issue is explored in depth in the paper Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? by Neil Perry, Megha Srivastava, Deepak Kumar, and Dan Boneh.

Did you know that Bearer offers the ability to automatically compile the privacy information Legal teams need from Security and Engineering teams?

When we started to build Bearer, we wanted to understand how to validate the quality of our findings and be able to benchmark it. Code security scanning solutions are notorious for reporting a lot of false positives and other deficiencies, and even though we believed we could do much better, we needed a way to prove it. In Java, there is an OWASP project, BenchmarkJava, which makes it easy to compare the output of two software security solutions.

Previously, we talked about the first phase of our battle testing process. If you haven’t already, give it a read for background on this article. After Bearer CLI proved itself solid against a variety of real-world projects, it was time to take things to the next level and compare the quality of results over time, and against the results of other static application security testing (SAST) tools.

Since we announced version 1.3 of Bearer CLI in early April, the team has been working relentlessly to make major movements and ship amazing new features. Before you read it all, we advise you to update to the latest version in the background 🙂, that way you can start exploring all right after finishing this article!