To keep pace with ever-increasing customer demands on software functionality and time-to-market expectations, software developers have had to evolve the way they develop code to be both faster and ...

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 ...

Software Composition Analysis, or SCA, is a type of software security tool that focuses on analyzing open-source components within a codebase. When developers create software, they often include ...

Modern source code analysis tools (sometimes called static analysis or SCA tools) analyze software programs at the earliest stage of development. SCA tools analyze a program to calculate metrics and ...

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 ...

Endor Labs Inc. says Microsoft Corp. has natively integrated its software composition analysis technology into its Microsoft Defender for Cloud cloud-native application protection platform. That means ...

Source code is a set of computer instructions written in a human-readable form. It is a set of text-based instructions written in a programming language, compiled or interpreted to perform one or more ...

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 ...

How exhaustive static analysis overcomes the limitations of traditional tests and static-analysis tools. How exhaustive static analysis identifies a buffer overflow by using code samples. How hardware ...