Secure Programming with Static Analysis

Interview with Brian Chess from Fortify Software

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Brian is Chief Scientist and co-founder of Fortify Software and gave us an interview all about internet security, and the possibility of using static analysis to catch security problems only.

  • Fortify Software homepage
  • http://www.fortifysoftware.com/

  • http://www.fortifysoftware.com/products/

  • Brian's personal homepage

  • http://www.vantuyl.com/chess/

  • The book - Secure Programming with Static Analysis

  • http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321424778

  • Static Analysis

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_code_analysis

  • Findbugs

  • http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

  • Other static analysis tools

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_analysis

  • Buffer Overflow exploit

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow

  • Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_site_scripting

  • SQL Injection

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection

  • Wikipedia list of common vulnerabilities

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_vulnerability

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