Plan your evaluation
Write down the workflow, systems, operating owner, and evidence needed to make your decision. Use the same scope for every supplier, and ask which parts of the demonstration are included in the proposed package.
Code and dependency analysis
Distinguish checks on your own code from analysis of third-party components. Define which repositories, languages, build systems, and dependency sources must be covered.
Application and API testing
Choose representative authenticated workflows and APIs. Agree on test permissions, safe boundaries, and the evidence developers need to reproduce a finding.
Developer remediation
Follow a finding from discovery into a developer-owned change. Check suppression, exception review, retesting, and the effect on a normal release.
Questions to ask
- Which checks run before release and which inspect a deployed application?
- Can a developer reproduce, fix, and retest the same finding?
- What code, build artifacts, or secrets leave our environment?
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