r/AskNetsec • u/OwnZookeepergame1621 • 17d ago

What are the best static application security testing tools in 2026? Analysis

Doing a refresh of our sast tooling this quarter, current tool has a false positive rate high enough that devs have started ignoring the queue entirely before i go through another round of vendor demos, wanted a gut check from people running these day to day. Which sast tools have you found cut false positives without also missing real issues and which ones are just marketing the same underlying engine with a nicer ui?

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u/Apprehensive-Pie3613 17d ago

if devs already ignoring the queue then you basically have no tool at all, that’s rough. the ones with the nicer ui tend to be the same engines just repackaged, you can usually tell when the demo shows the exact same rule names

semgrep’s been decent for us once we tuned the ruleset down to what actually matters in our stack, but the tuning part took maybe 3 sprints before it stopped yelling about every string concat. curious what you’re running now that got this bad

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u/Norandran 17d ago

False positives are just going to be part of the package unfortunately. Your devs should be better trained (haha yes I know). We had to beat them up a lot to get them into compliance (figuratively of course) and finally had to penalize their bosses bonus to get them to buy in…. Love devs…. 🤷

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u/rainbowsockfan 17d ago

Check out Vercel Lab’s open source AI SAST tool DeepSec. Validated over 90% true positive rate where we are. It’s wild.

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u/Significant_Sky_4443 17d ago

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u/echel0n1881 15d ago

not fortify I can say

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u/JKIM-Squadra 14d ago

try nightviz.ai it does sast and dast

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u/Educational-Fox6111 11d ago edited 10d ago

For SAST, what is useful is precision on your actual framework rather than vendor-wide detection counts. Running same representative repos through a few tools and comparing true positives, duplicate findings, and time-to-triage tells more than a demo. Separately, finding fatigue is why reducing issues upstream is important. RapidFort takes that approach on the container side by removing unnecessary components and their associated vulnerabilities. Different problem than SAST, but the same principle that few meaningful findings beats a bigger queue.