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Evaluating Static Analysis Alerts with LLMs
LLMs show promising initial results in adjudicating static analysis alerts, offering possibilities for better vulnerability detection. This post discusses initial experiments using GPT-4 to evaluate static analysis alerts.
Read More•By William Klieber, Lori Flynn
In Cybersecurity Engineering
Redemption: A Prototype for Automated Repair of Static Analysis Alerts
This post introduces Redemption, an open source tool that uses automated code repair technology to repair static analysis alerts in C/C++ source code.
Read More•By David Svoboda
In Cybersecurity Engineering
Release of SCAIFE System Version 2.0.0 Provides Support for Continuous-Integration (CI) Systems
Key features in new release of SCAIFE System Version 2.0.0 including support for continuous-integration (CI) systems, and status of evolving SEI SCAIFE work
Read More•By Lori Flynn
In Secure Development
Automated Code Repair to Ensure Memory Safety
Memory-safety vulnerabilities are among the most common and most severe types of software vulnerabilities. In early 2019, a memory vulnerability in the iPhone iOS....
Read More•By William Klieber
In Secure Development
How to Use Static Analysis to Enforce SEI CERT Coding Standards for IoT Applications
The Jeep hack, methods to hack ATMs, and even hacks to a casino's fish tank provide stark evidence of the risks associated with the Internet of Things (IoT)....
Read More•By David Svoboda
In Secure Development
Using the SEI CERT Coding Standards to Improve Security of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is insecure. The Jeep hack received a lot of publicity, and there are various ways to hack ATMs, with incidents occurring with increasing regularity....
Read More•By David Svoboda
In Secure Development
SCALe v. 3: Automated Classification and Advanced Prioritization of Static Analysis Alerts
Static analysis tools analyze code without executing it, to identify potential flaws in source code. These tools produce a large number of alerts with high false-positive rates that an engineer …
Read More•By Lori Flynn, Ebonie McNeil
In Secure Development
SCALe: A Tool for Managing Output from Static Analysis Tools
Experience shows that most software contains code flaws that can lead to vulnerabilities. Static analysis tools used to identify potential vulnerabilities in source code produce....
Read More•By Lori Flynn
In Secure Development
Obsidian: A New, More Secure Programming Language for Blockchain
Billions of dollars in venture capital, industry investments, and government investments are going into the technology known as blockchain....
Read More•By Eliezer Kanal
In Secure Development
Decision-Making Factors for Selecting Application Security Testing Tools
In the first post in this series, I presented 10 types of application security testing (AST) tools and discussed when and how to use them....
Read More•By Tom Scanlon
In Secure Development
