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Static, dynamic analysis go on-demand


By Jeff Feinman
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December 9, 2009 —  Fortify Software has created a software-as-a-service security platform that integrates the company’s static analysis technology with WhiteHat Security’s dynamic testing.

Fortify on Demand, released today, lets developers upload applications or provide URLs to websites for scanning and review. Fortify on Demand leverages WhiteHat’s dynamic testing capabilities on the back end, and users have the option of doing either or both static and dynamic analysis. Taylor McKinley, product marketing manager with Fortify, said Fortify then provides scan results after a few days.

“You can give us a URL and any credentials needed to access that site, and you can give us time slots for when to scan the site,” McKinley said. “So we pass that information along to WhiteHat, they conduct all the tests, and they supply us with the data back. We do the correlation and integration of all the static data and dynamic data and present it in one interface.”

McKinley explained that there are frequently correlations among static and dynamic test results.

“So we can say, for example, ‘We saw a cross-site scripting vulnerability on this URL, and when we did the source code review, we also saw a cross-site scripting vulnerability. We think these may be the same thing,’ ” he said. “So what we’ll do is put them right next to each other in the report, and we can show a cluster of things that might be the same issue and can be fixed with the same line of code. It makes the process of prioritizing issues much more simplistic.”

Fortify on Demand integrates source and binary code analysis with Web application scanning, focusing on approximately 90 application vulnerabilities. It comes in two versions: Enterprise Assessment Management and Vendor Security Management. Enterprise Assessment Management focuses on assessing internal applications, while Vendor Security Management is geared toward assessing third-party code.

McKinley said that Fortify on Demand is well-suited for someone new to application security, as there are no deployment costs and it doesn’t require security expertise. He claimed that scan results are easy to comprehend because Fortify prioritizes scanning results and points out false positives.

After starting with the lightweight Fortify on Demand, developers can eventually move over to one of Fortify’s software security assessment products, McKinley said. “The on-demand offering is a great way to get started because it’s very easy and it gives a baseline of how secure you are. And then at some point, you can migrate over to using software in-house.”




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