# Application Security | | **Application Security** includes all tasks that introduce a secure software development life cycle to development teams. Its final goal is to improve security practices and, through that, to find, fix and preferably prevent security issues within applications. It encompasses the whole application life cycle from requirements analysis, design, implementation, verification as well as maintenance. | | ---- | ---- | | | wikipedia:: [Application security - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_security) | | | wikipedia:: [Web Application Security](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_security#Web_Application_Security) | ## [[Static Code Analysis (SCA) or Static Program Analysis]] ## [[Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)]] ## [[Security Testing]]