Inspecting source code for security vulnerabilities is an important part in any secure development process. While this can be done manually, it’s much easier to start with a static analysis tool that can scan code for known vulnerabilities. Statistics out there claim anywhere from 30-50% of coding vulnerabilities can be found with a code scanner. For .NET […]
One of the biggest trends in issues in web application testing today is Security Testing. Most people know their web application is important for their business; no one wants a big security breach. With hackers becoming more and more sophisticated, and vulnerabilities becoming easier and easier to exploit the odds are not in your favor. […]
Coveros has been offering downloadable copies of our integrated SecureCI™ platform as a VMware™ virtual machine image for quite a while now. SecureCI is an integrated stack of tools that provides version control, wiki, project/issue management, and code analysis to enable the development of high quality, secure applications. For more information about the history of SecureCI, read Gene […]
Most of us like things done the right way and (more often than not) our way. Nothing can be more infuriating than looking through poorly documented logs or code, and trying to understand poor documentation and what it was meant to get across. During development we often look to setting up good coding practices that […]
The focus of continuous delivery isn’t just about being quicker when developing and deploying, but rather delivering business value continuously. And we only see business value from software when it is made available to end users. I heard a project lead explain that his team had a continuous delivery process. They used source control management […]
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide community focusing on improving the security of web applications. One project developed by OWASP is the OWASP Top 10, which is a list of the most serious web application vulnerabilities. Obviously, there are innumerable ways to hack a web application but this list contains the most common and […]
SecureCI is an open-source continuous integration solution. We’ve assembled a number of open-source tools that we use, installed them in a VMware image and configured them to work together. SecureCI is packaged as a virtual machine that can be run with the VMware Player that way you can be up and running in minutes without […]
If your development group or organization has an upcoming software security assessment scheduled here are three things to think about while making your preparations. Assets (Dependencies) – Be sure that you have all application assets together that are needed to build the application. If the assessment will be done in your test/development area then this will […]
How do you fit security into your Continuous Integration (CI)? The common response would be, “We do not because … “. Well, you can, without a large effort or a large impact. At a high level you can integrate source code analysis into your daily integration builds so that you know if the change from the previous day […]
I was recently reminiscing with a friend regarding some of the hairier projects we had worked on together. One in particular stood out. It was for a financial services company. While the project itself had no specific security requirements, the company decided toward the end of the project that it needed to have security […]
