# SAST Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a method of analyzing source code, binaries, or bytecode to find security vulnerabilities early in the development cycle. SAST tools inspect your codebase before it’s deployed, ensuring that weaknesses like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and buffer overflows are identified and mitigated early.\\ AquilaX AI’s SAST offering goes a step further by using ML to eliminate false positives and provide highly contextualized security findings. This empowers developers to remediate security issues quickly and efficiently without disrupting the development workflow. **Why SAST Matters:** • Identify vulnerabilities early in development. • Reduce costs by fixing issues before deployment. • Enhance application security posture. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.aquilax.ai/user-manual/scanners/sast.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.