Static application security testing (SAST) tool that scans source code to discover, filter, and prioritize security and privacy risks.
Bearer is a static application security testing (SAST) tool that scans source code to discover, filter, and prioritize security vulnerabilities and privacy risks. It analyzes data flows to identify issues like injection flaws, cryptographic failures, and sensitive data exposure, helping developers secure their applications. The tool supports multiple programming languages and provides actionable reports to improve code security.
Development teams, security engineers, and compliance officers who need to integrate security scanning into their CI/CD pipelines and ensure privacy compliance in their codebases.
Developers choose Bearer for its focus on sensitive data flow analysis, which prioritizes critical findings and reduces false positives. Its open-source CLI offers a free, extensible solution with a developer-friendly UX, while the commercial version provides advanced cross-file analysis for enterprise needs.
Code security scanning tool (SAST) to discover, filter and prioritize security and privacy risks.
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Prioritizes findings based on sensitive data flows, focusing on high-impact vulnerabilities like PII exposure to reduce alert fatigue, as highlighted in its philosophy.
Covers key languages including Go, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby in the free CLI version, making it versatile for multi-language projects.
Automates evidence gathering for GDPR reports by detecting over 120 sensitive data types and components, aiding in PIA and DPIA documentation.
Features clear reports, progress indicators, and CI integration guides, as shown in the getting started section, to streamline security workflows.
Critical capabilities like cross-file analysis for Java and support for additional languages such as C# are exclusive to the commercial Bearer Pro version.
Acknowledges in FAQs that false positives are always a possibility, requiring manual triage despite improvements in reducing them.
Languages such as C#, Kotlin, and Elixir are not available in the free version, restricting utility for projects using these technologies.