The high cost of finding and patching application flaws is well known. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to write secure code in the first place? One of the fastest growing areas in the software security ...

Large-scale software systems are staggeringly complex works of engineering. Bugs inevitably come with the territory and for decades, the software profession has looked for ways to fight them. We may ...

With the growing number of cybersecurity threats and stringent government policies, organizations are obliged to follow security measures to ensure robust protection at all times. This is where the ...

Static source code analysis tools can be an invaluable tool for software developers. Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with some of the major vendors in this space. Finding problems in applications is ...

Software teams today are shipping code faster than ever. But security and quality are clearly struggling to keep pace. In fact, 74% of companies admit that insecure code led to at least one security ...

Have you ever thought of how tools like Checkstyle or FindBugs perform a static code analysis, or how Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like NetBeans or Eclipse execute quick code fixes or ...

CodeSonar source-code analysis tool version 3.4 includes support for enforcing the power of 10: rules for developing safety-critical code. The static-analysis tool performs a whole-program ...

Nearly 4,000 security flaws have been found in software during each of the last two years, but software developers still don't routinely do automatic checks for such vulnerabilities. Legal ...

Sonatype, which provides tools for developers to build better quality software, has acquired code analysis platform MuseDev. The acquisition adds developer-friendly code scanning to Sonatype’s ...