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Hands-On Security in DevOps
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Hands-On Security in DevOps

by Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
9h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Tool evaluation

Once the team realizes the importance and the challenge of secure coding, it will look for some tools to make the secure coding easier. The evaluation of a scanning tool may include the following considerations:

Considerations

Description

Usability

  • The target users of the code scanning tools are developers. The usability includes the capability to scan parts of the source code, differential scans, scanning reports, tracing back to original source code, and so on.

Budget

  • If it's an IDE plugin commercial tool, we need to consider how many concurrent users' licenses it will need.

Programming languages support

  • Most tools support C/C++ and Java, but do not support script languages, such as Python, JavaScript, ...
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ISBN: 9781788995504