Security News > 2020 > October > GitHub envisions a world with fewer software vulnerabilities

"So much of the world's development happens on GitHub that security is not just an opportunity for us, but our responsibility. To secure software at scale, we need to make a base-level impact that can drive the most change; and that starts with the code," Grey Baker, GitHub's Senior Director of Product Management, told Help Net Security.

The engine can analyze code written in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go, but since the Code Scanning feature built on the open SARIF standard, it can also work with third-party analysis engines available from the GitHub Marketplace.

"We want developers to be able to use their tools of choice, for any of their projects on GitHub, all within the native GitHub experience they love. We've partnered with more than a dozen open source and commercial security vendors to date and we'll continue to integrate code scanning with other third-party vendors through GitHub Actions and Apps," Baker noted.

"Having the security analysis results displayed as code scanning alerts in GitHub provides an convenient way to triage and prioritize fixes, a process that could be cumbersome usually requiring scrolling through many pages of exported reports, going back and forth between your code and the reported results, or reviewing them in dashboards provided by the security tool. The ease of use now means you can initiate scans, view, fix, and close alerts for potential vulnerabilities in your project's code in an environment that is already familiar and where most of your other workflows are done," he noted.

"We expect code scanning to prevent thousands of vulnerabilities from ever existing, by catching them at code review time. We envisage a world with fewer software vulnerabilities because security review is an automated part of the developer workflow," Baker explained.

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