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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sonar, the leading provider of integrated code quality and code security solutions, is unveiling SonarQube Advanced Security, a significant advancement in code security which will soon be available.

AI assistants are a double-edged sword for developers. On one hand, code-generation assistants have made creating barebones applications easier and led to a surge in code pushed to GitHub. Yet just as ...

Software composition analysis (SCA) refers to obtaining insight into what open-source components and dependencies are being used in your application, and how—all in an automated fashion. This process ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. A notorious hacker, thought to be behind many recent breaches ...