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Product aims to fix security flaws during app creation


By Robert Mullins
May 6, 2008 — 
Software is routinely tested for reliability, performance and manageability throughout the development process, but application security, previously ignored, is finally getting the same amount of attention.

Parasoft, a 20-year-old company that has offered testing software for all those issues, introduced a product at JavaOne 2008 today that it says integrates security reviews into the process without sacrificing productivity.

The offering, dubbed Parasoft Application Security Solutions, performs a daily analysis of software code as it’s compiled, and identifies security vulnerabilities and suggests ways to fix the problem. It can be bundled with other Parasoft tools that analyze code for performance, reliability and manageability, said Wayne Ariola, vice president of strategy at Parasoft.

Each vulnerability detected is prioritized, and a report appears within the IDE that the developer is working in, including direct links to the problematic code and recommended fixes, Ariola said. It resolves security issues while it raises developer awareness.

“Not only are we fixing the problem, we are also raising the ‘security IQ’ of that developer,” Ariola added.

Parasoft is already serving the developer market with SOA quality and application development quality tools, and bundling its security tool with them would give security the status it needs in a project, Ariola said.

Of course, Ariola noted, there are other companies offering testing for application reliability, code quality or security, such as Fortify Software, Instantiations and others. But too often, developers don’t address security vulnerabilities until late in the process, or use audit tools to detect possible risks, which only go so far. “It’s great to have an audit tool, but it doesn’t help remediate the problem,” Ariola argued.


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