Wouldn’t it be cheaper to write secure code in the first place? One of the fastest growing areas in the software security industry is source code analysis tools, also known as static analysis tools.

We may not see perfect source code in our lifetime, but we are seeing much better analysis tools and promising new approaches to remedy the problem.

Application security posture management company Apiiro today has released two open-source tools to help organizations defend against malicious code in their applications.

Software supply chain attacks are exploiting a dangerous blind spot - the difference between the code developers review and ...

ByteInsight is GAP's free tool built to help engineering teams quickly get their arms around legacy applications by scanning source code, identifying technologies, and highlighting modernization ...

A year ago the Department of Homeland Security contracted with Coverity, a maker of a source code analysis tool, to harden open source software. (Stanford University and Symantec are also involved ...

Image Credits: GitHub In the background, this new feature uses the CodeQL engine, GitHub’s semantic analysis engine to find vulnerabilities in code, even before it has been executed.

Cybersecurity experts have incorporated ChatGPT-like tools into their work, and they use them for tasks from source-code analysis to identifying vulnerabilities.

That’s where source code analysis (SCA) tools fit in. Historically, SCA tools have not provide insight into AI, but that’s now changing.

Microsoft unveiled its free tools in an advisory posted by the Microsoft Security Response Center, which included download links for UrlScan and SQL Source Code Analysis Tool.