Brakeman – Justin Collins – PSW #710
Brakeman is a free static analysis security tool specifically designed for Ruby on Rails applications. It analyzes Rails application code to find security issues at any stage of development.
Justin first released Brakeman in 2010. In 2018, the commercial version, "Brakeman Pro", was acquired by Synopsys. Brakeman continues to be a very popular security tool for Rails, with tens of thousands of downloads per day.
https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman
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Justin currently empowers the product security team at Gusto. In the past, he has been an application security engineer at SurveyMonkey, Twitter, & AT&T Interactive. Justin is the primary author of Brakeman, a free static analysis security tool for Ruby on Rails. The commercial version of Brakeman was acquired by Synopsys in 2018.
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