Whether to use static or dynamic source code analysis is a long-running, ongoing open question. IT professionals use both methods for application debugging and security, a crucial facet of software ...

Editor’s Note: Excerpted from their book Embedded Systems Security, the authors go through an analysis of three popular, security-critical open source applications - Apache, OpenSSL, and sendmail – ...

An abstract syntax tree, or AST for short, is simply a tree-structured representation of the source code as might be typically generated by the preliminary parsing stages of a compiler. Online, March ...

Checkov is an open-source tool designed to help teams secure their cloud infrastructure and code. At its core, it’s a static code analysis tool for infrastructure as code (IaC), but it also goes a ...