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Cigital releases a set of rules to boost Java security


By Jeff Feinman
September 17, 2008 — 
Application security company Cigital has created a set of Java static analysis rules for Fortify Software’s Source Code Analyzer.

The Java Security Rulepack 1.0, released today, adds 64 vulnerability categories to Fortify’s vulnerability category base, which has more than 315 categories for 17 programming languages, Cigital executives said. The rules in the product are open source, and users can modify the implementation of the rules as they please. This can reduce the number of false positives in an organizational scan, the company said.

Some of the security checks in the Java Security Rulepack include J2EE and Struts misconfiguration checks, cryptographic usage checks, credential protection, and code quality. It works with Fortify's Source Code Analyzer version 4.5 or later.

Among the 64 rules in the Java Security Rulepack are the removal of empty try-catch blocks that handle code; the insurance that cryptographic keys are 128 bits long to maintain the integrity and confidentiality of data; and the avoidance of hard-coding user names and passwords in Castor configuration files.

“We're excited to see outside experts, such as Cigital, writing custom rules to further enhance the level of analysis of Fortify's products,” says Brian Chess, co-founder and chief scientist at Fortify. “This trend started with the Computer Emergency Response Team earlier in 2008, and now takes a great stride forward with the addition of the Cigital Java Security Rulepack.”


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