Security News > 2020 > August > GrammaTech Releases Open Source API Security Tool
Application security testing company GrammaTech announced on Wednesday that it has released an open source tool designed to detect API usage errors.
The tool, named SWAP Detector, was developed as part of a research project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and GrammaTech says it can be highly useful for DevOps application security testing.
A lot of software applications rely on third-party APIs and it's important for developers to identify API usage errors, which can introduce security and reliability issues.
SWAP Detector initially focuses on applications written in C and C++, but GrammaTech says it's applicable to code written in other programming languages as well, particularly for interpreted - rather than compiled - languages.
"SWAP Detector uses multiple error-detection techniques, layered together to increase accuracy. For example, it compares argument names used in call sites with the parameter names used in corresponding declarations," GrammaTech explained.
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