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GitHub Code Scanning Using Third-Party Actions
GitHub’s code scanning helps identify vulnerabilities and errors in your codebase, and while CodeQL is a powerful built-in option, you can also integrate third-party tools for a tailored approach. Configuring code scanning with third-party actions allows you to leverage tools like SonarQube, Checkmarx, or Trivy within GitHub Actions workflows. By uploading results in SARIF format,…
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Code Security with GitHub Code Scanning and CodeQL Custom Queries
For this blog, we’ll enhance the advanced setup in our Instance-Security repo (a Java/Maven project) by creating a custom query pack to test CodeQL’s flexibility. If you haven’t explored our blog on Code Scanning with Advanced CodeQL Setup, we strongly recommend checking it out first, as it’s a prerequisite for following along with this blog.…
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Code Security with GitHub Code Scanning and Advanced CodeQL Setup
About Advanced Setup for Code Scanning Advanced setup for code scanning is ideal when you need a tailored approach to securing your codebase. By crafting and modifying a workflow file, you can customize the scanning process extensively. This includes specifying how to compile languages, selecting specific CodeQL queries to execute, choosing which languages to analyze,…
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Code Scanning with GitHub and CodeQL
What is Code Scanning? Code scanning is a GitHub feature designed to help developers identify security vulnerabilities and coding errors in their projects before they become bigger problems. It analyzes your code automatically, flags potential issues like SQL injection or cross-site scripting (XSS), and displays them as alerts right in your repository. Picture it as…
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Enterprise API Testing,5 Best Practices for Scalability, Security & Performance
APIs serve as the critical foundation for seamless integration and data exchange between enterprise systems. As organizations scale, the demand for robust, secure, and high-performing APIs becomes paramount. Effective API Testing is essential to ensure that these systems can handle increased load, maintain security standards, and deliver optimal performance. 5 Best Practices to Optimize API…
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How to Ensure Secure Software Supply Chains with DevSecOps?
The most significant cybersecurity vulnerability and risk in contemporary system development is the lack of security throughout the early phases of system engineering. As software supply chain attacks grow more sophisticated and aggressive, businesses must recognize that they cannot treat cybersecurity as an afterthought or an extra step in their processes. Incorporating security into the…
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How Does DevSecOps Accelerate Secure Software Development?
Development, operations, and security boundaries have always been porous, but in the last several years, DevSecOps has sparked a paradigm change. This fresh strategy incorporates security standards into the development lifecycle and establishes an ongoing loop of monitoring, enhancement, and automation to check every line of code before it enters production. What Is DevSecOps? One…