Paul Krill
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Coverity and Armorize link code quality, security analyses

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Jul 13, 20102 mins

The companies plan to integrate Coverity Static Analysis with Armorize's CodeSecure security analyzer

Code quality and security analyses are being united through the integration of products from Coverity and Armorize Technologies, the companies are announcing on Tuesday.

The integration will link Coverity Static Analysis, for code analysis, with Armorize CodeSecure, for security analysis. Integrations will be featured in upgrades of the two products planned for the end of this calendar year.

[ InfoWorld’s Paul Krill reported in February about Microsoft promoting security exercises for software development. ]

“We really believe that security needs to be addressed during the development process and not as a separate step afterward,” said Andy Chou, chief scientist and co-founder at Coverity. This way, developers can prioritize security defects in the same manner at quality defects — when writing of code is still fresh on their minds, he said. Usually, security is addressed later on in the application development lifecycle, Chou said.

Coverity’s Static Analysis looks for issues such as buffer overflows and concurrency problems, Chou said. CodeSecure looks for issues such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting problems, said Caleb Sima, CEO of Armorize.

The integration creates a new level of collaboration between security and development, providing assurance that development is fixing security vulnerabilities with every iteration without developers having to become security experts, the companies said.  

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Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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