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 and bug detection are integral to modern software engineering, providing a systematic approach to identify defects and security vulnerabilities without executing the code. By ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contrast Application Security Testing (AST) is a runtime-driven security solution that detects and prioritizes ...

Klocwork this week announced shipments of Klocwork Insight, bringing system-wide source code analysis to the developer desktop, the company said. The company has filed multiple patents on what it ...

This includes unused functions, unreachable conditions, or variables that are never referenced. While dead code does not ...

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 ...

Cycuity’s Radix-ST leverages static analysis techniques to help identify and resolve security weaknesses earlier in chip design. Cycuity, Inc., a leader in advanced hardware security solutions, ...

Aardvark represents OpenAI’s entry into automated security research through agentic AI. By combining GPT-5’s language ...