All software projects are guaranteed to have one artifact in common: source code. Together with architectural risk analysis, code review for security ranks very high on the list of software security best practices. Here, we'll look at how to automate source-code security analysis with static analysis tools.
Index Terms:
software development life cycle, source code, static analysis
Citation:
Brian Chess, Gary McGraw, "Static Analysis for Security," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 76-79, Nov. 2004, doi:10.1109/MSP.2004.111