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DHS-Funded 'SWAMP' Helps Scour Code For Bugs
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GonzSTL
GonzSTL,
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7/29/2014 | 8:35:14 AM
DHS-Funded 'SWAMP' Helps Scour Code For Bugs
This is an excellent service, especially for government agencies and small organizations who do not necessarily have the financial or human resouorces to help in the development of secure code. I understand that security has to be tightly integrated into any software development project, but the reality is that doing so requires resources that organizations do not always have. If more commercial providers participate in the effort, it becomes an even stronger platform for source code security testing. Hopefully, it will not lead to developer complacency, or carelessness by thinking that there is a safety net for developing poorly secured code. Ideally, they will have developed what they believe to be secure code, and this service will either prove it, or at the very least show them where the pitfalls are for future development efforts.
Kelly Jackson Higgins
Kelly Jackson Higgins,
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7/29/2014 | 8:54:31 AM
Re: DHS-Funded 'SWAMP' Helps Scour Code For Bugs
Given the strong push to write more secure code, this project indeed seems important. What I also think is cool about it is that it's going to include commercial scanning services, so users don't have to jump from one platform to another to scan their code. They can do it all from one platform, from what this promises. Maybe it will make secure coding more mainstream. 
GonzSTL
GonzSTL,
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7/29/2014 | 9:00:15 AM
Re: DHS-Funded 'SWAMP' Helps Scour Code For Bugs
Maybe it will make secure coding more mainstream. One thing it will potentially do is eliminate excuses.
Kelly Jackson Higgins
Kelly Jackson Higgins,
 User Rank: Strategist
7/29/2014 | 9:04:20 AM
Re: DHS-Funded 'SWAMP' Helps Scour Code For Bugs
So true. =) If the tools are free, easy to use online, all that's left is awareness about them. But I can see that still being an issue for smaller orgs/developers.
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
7/29/2014 | 9:32:32 AM
Re: DHS-Funded 'SWAMP' Helps Scour Code For Bugs
Awareness of the tools is a good first step. Awareness that software assurance is a critical issue that needs to be addressed by all developers in companies large and small is the bigger challenge, to be sure.


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