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- Facing the Software Quality Challenge: The Results of a New IDC Survey
- Development organizations today are faced with a number of significant challenges. They must coordinate disparate code sources, overcome code complexity, keep pace with rapid change, enforce compliance with mandatory processes, and work within budgetary constraints to name just a few. So, how are these organizations faring? Are developers successfully dealing...
- Tags: Software, Survey, Coverity, International Data Corp., Software Quality, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Webcasts 2008-06-19
- Controlling Software Complexity: The Business Case for Static Source Code Analysis
- Because of the increasing role software plays in almost every facet of our lives and businesses, developers are under constant pressure to perform. They are challenged to deliver increasingly advanced applications on stringent timetables. Compound this with the growing complexity of applications themselves, add distributed or outsourced development teams, and...
- Tags: Business Case, Software, Complexity, Coverity, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Coverity was 7th most-read story at open source blog
- A piece I did way back in January about Coverity was the 7th most popular item on this blog in 2006. The item described a Homeland Security grant of $1.25 million aimed at making Web sites more secure.Specifically, Coverity was to test open source code for bugs that criminals might...
- Tags: Coverity, Security, Development, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Meeting the software development challenge with static source code analysis
- This white paper highlights key business and technology issues facing large software development teams and discusses how Coverity's groundbreaking static source code analysis technology enables them to detect and fix critical defects and security vulnerabilities early in the development process.
- Tags: Software, Coverity, Analysis, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Most open source software is better
- Thats one honest way you can spin a Business Week column, published Friday, written by Coverity CTO Benjamin Chelf.Thats now how Business Week spun it, however. "Insecurity in Open Source" is their headline.The story is that Coverity ran 50 open source projects through its bug-checking system, as well as products...
- Tags: proprietary product, Coverity, open source
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Open source, the milspec version
- Seeing as how the open source origins of the Internet were first wrought by the Defense Dept., it seems poetic justice (if that's the phrase) that the Dept. of Homeland Security is now funding the "hardening" of critical open source software, News.com reports. Through its Science and...
- Tags: open-source software, software, Apache Software Foundation, Coverity
- Blog posts 2006-01-12
- What if Microsoft is right? (about open source insecurities)
- Over the last few years, particularly as server-based deployments have eaten away at the software giant's bottom line, Microsoft has routinely derided open source software as being less secure than its own closed-source proprietary offerings. Microsoft executives used to routinely take security-related pot shots at Linux and more...
- Tags: open source, security
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- Fewer flaws in Linux?
- Another week, another study. Coverity has done a study of the 2.6 Linux kernel, and finds that it has fewer flaws on average than proprietary software: The project found 985 bugs in the 5.7 million lines of code that make up the latest version of the Linux core operating system,...
- Tags: Coverity, software
- Blog posts 2004-12-13
Additional Resources
- Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?
- You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...
- Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- IT expert executed in Iran
- Following Pakistan's recently introduced "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" according to which potential cyberterrorists would face the death penalty, a neighboring country, Iran, has recently executed an IT expert who confessed of being an Israeli spy for at least three years. After being recruited by Mossad during a business...
- Tags: Information Technology, Equipment, Iran, Government, Productivity, Real Estate, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus
- One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected. As PC "ah-choos" his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers that he's immune to the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Would you lie to get your project funded?
- 83% of cost/benefit analysis supporting IT proposals is a fiction I was reviewing an academic manuscript, Managing the Realization of Business Benefits from IT Investments (published in (MIS Quarterly Executive, March 2007) by Professors Joe Peppard, John Ward and Elizabeth Daniel, when a footnote really caught my...
- Tags: Information Technology, Benefit, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Calling Mac users - Have you installed antivirus on your Mac?
- Apple now recommends that users install antivirus software on their Mac systems. Well, have you? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Apple Inc., Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Hackers boot Linux on iPhone
- A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel. A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Hacker, Linux, Hacking, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Apple, hackers, iPhone, OS X, port, kernel, Chris Duckett, Builder AU, Chris Duckett, Builder AU
- News items 2008-12-01
- Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?
- Microsoft is dropping its subscription-based antivirus software in favor of a free package, code-named 'Morro'. ScanSafe Internet-security expert Mary Landesman investigates Microsoft's motives. Commentary--Microsoft is to replace its paid-for antivirus product with a free one, citing an altruistic desire to spread protection around the world. But many are less...
- Tags: Software, Brazil, China, India, Microsoft Corp., Infection Rate, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security, Morro, Microsoft, Mary Landesman, antivirus, free, OneCare, ScanSafe, Special from ZDNet UK, Mary Landesman, ScanSafe, Special from ZDNet UK
- News items 2008-12-01
- Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
- MySQL's founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed. Sun has released version 5.1 of the open-source MySQL database software, but the software's founder simultaneously warned...
- Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sun, MySQL 5.1, bugs, Lana Kovacevic Builder AU
- News items 2008-12-01
- Virtualization and Emulex
- Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint. How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...
- Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- 'Dumbing down' the security profession
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Shyama Rose The market for the development and implementation of source code analysis static and dynamic tools is swelling. Companies are increasingly relying on source code analysis tools to identify security-related vulnerabilities. The demand and reliance...
- Tags: Analysis Tool, Vulnerability, Analysis, Tool, Productivity, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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In this video we hear from Sudip Chahal, Principal Engineer with the Intel IT Enterprise Architecture Group, talking about a new white paper from IT@Intel, "Evaluating Two- and Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms."
