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Static Analysis vs. SAST vs. Linting: The Taxonomy That Matters for Security Teams
When a security dashboard files a single-file linter under "SAST tools," it's using "SAST" as a mark…
Sample Size and Statistical Power: What a Small Sample Can and Cannot Tell You
A fraud filter that catches zero of the last 200 confirmed-fraudulent charges needs no p-value to co…
Proxy Metrics: The Number You Optimize Is Not the Thing You Want
Every number on a dashboard is a proxy. GDP stands in for a nation's prosperity, yet it counts a car…
Precision, Recall, and F1 for Static Analysis: Same Score, Opposite Tools
F1 gives the scanner that screams at everything and the one that stays almost silent the same score …
Taint vs. Heuristic Detection: The Difference Between a Proof and a Hunch
await fetch(userUrl); A linter flags this line in about a millisecond. Here is what it did not…
Statistical Significance and p-Values: What p > 0.05 Actually Means
A three-way test of a checkout page came back with variant C on top: 34% conversion against 32% and …
Reproducibility vs Replicability: Why Benchmark Numbers Need Both
Running the same measurement twice and getting the same number proves less than most results imply. …
Ranking vs. Measuring: What a Leaderboard Throws Away
The world chess rating list and a "top 10 players" listicle look like the same object. They are not.…
OWASP Top 10, Explained: An Address System, Not a Severity Scale
A03:2021 is Injection. Read that as an address, not a verdict: the third entry in the 2021 edition o…
Ground Truth in Security Testing: Who Decides What's Vulnerable?
Every security benchmark begins with a spreadsheet of code patterns and one column left blank: vulne…
The CWE Taxonomy, Explained: A Name Is Not a Verdict
CWE-89 is SQL Injection. A name, not a verdict. Nothing in those six characters tells you to drop ev…
CVSS Scores Explained: The Number Measures Severity, Not Risk
CVSS 9.1 and the word LOW, four characters apart, printed on the same line by a scanner. 9.1 sits a …