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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Static code analysis offers extensive insights into code that can help you improve code quality and security, the speed of development, and even team collaboration and planning. Here’s everything you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aditi Gupta discusses the design choices made early on during service development that were crucial to scaling operations later on at Netflix. In this episode, Adam Jacob, CEO and co-founder at System ...

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 ...

National ICT Australia (NICTA), a research institute that attempts to commercialise projects from a selection of the country's finest academics, has been demonstrating an analysis tool that scans code ...

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source ...