As the majority of businesses are increasingly moving to the online world, employees keep working remotely and more cyberattacks keep happening all over the globe, there is no doubt that embracing DevSecOps should be the new normal for every company. Organizations need to be able to adopt DevSecOps practices and adapt to new and evolving threats in order to protect their data and systems from malicious attacks.

At Cybersecurity 2021: The New Normal Virtual Summit, taking place March 4 and 5, the brightest minds in the security and IT industry will come together to discuss new security threats, empower DevOps teams with the latest security tools and provide practical tips and guidance to help developers and ops teams make the right security decisions to keep their data secure.

The two-day virtual event features thought-provoking discussions, networking opportunities and educational sessions focused on:

DevSecOps tools and practices
The main challenges of security and development teams when it comes to AppSec
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Passwordless and the long-term future of identity management
Policy-as-Code and how it impacts security
How security threats changed with COVID-19 and what to expect in 2021
How to manage AppSec
How to mitigate API vulnerabilities
How to break the silos and advance towards DevSecOps maturity
How to expand your security program through low-to-no cost initiatives
Time series database for security monitoring
Machine identity management
Top 10 Hacks From the Past Decade
Runtime observability techniques for security and compliance
Securing AWS credentials on DevOps machines
Cybersecurity 2021 features an outstanding lineup of industry leaders, including:

Ira Winkler, author and president at Secure Mentem
Chenxi Wang, founder and general partner at Rain Capital
Ron Gula, president at Gula Tech Adventures
Richard Stiennon, founding member of The Analyst Syndicate and chief research analyst at IT-Harvest
Joe Levy, CTO at Sophos
Rajat Bhargava, founder and CEO at JumpCloud
Myla Pilao, head of security research communications for TrendLabs at Trend Micro
Upasna Gupta, senior product marketing manager for Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks
Julian Waits, general manager of cyber business unit and public sector at Devo
Joseph Feiman, chief strategy officer at WhiteHat Security
Ian Murphy, founder and CEO at CyberOff
Mike Jones, security researcher at H4unt3d Hacker Podcast
Rhys Arkins, director of product management at WhiteSource
TJ Jermoluk, co-founder and CEO at Beyond Identity
Jim Ducharme, general manager of the anti-fraud business unit at RSA
Attendees will have the chance to enter a raffle for a chance to win a free copy of “You can Stop Stupid” by Ira Winkler and another one for a free copy of “Security Yearbook 2020” by Richard Stiennon. There will be valuable resources available for download and attendees will be able to interact with sponsors to learn more about their security tools and services.

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This article explains how static analysis fits into modern DevOps workflows and profiles the major platforms that engineering teams commonly evaluate, including those cited in market research from around 2019: PyCharm (JetBrains), ReSharper, Coverity, SonarQube, Micro Focus Fortify, Black Duck, Checkmarx, WhiteSource (now Mend), Closure Compiler, and Klocwork.

What Is Static Code Analysis?

Static analysis tools parse source code, bytecode, or compiled binaries and apply a set of rules—ranging from simple linting to deep data-flow analysis—to surface potential problems. Common categories of findings include:

• Security vulnerabilities – SQL injection, cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, insecure deserialization.
• Bug patterns – Null-pointer dereferences, resource leaks, unreachable code, incorrect API usage.
• Code-quality issues – Duplicated code, excessive complexity, violations of naming conventions.
• License and open-source risk – Identifying third-party components and their associated licenses (a specialty of Software Composition Analysis tools like Black Duck and WhiteSource).

Static analysis complements dynamic testing (DAST) and runtime monitoring; it does not replace them.

Key Platforms at a Glance

SonarQube

SonarQube (by SonarSource) is one of the most widely adopted open-core platforms for continuous code inspection. It supports 30+ languages, integrates with virtually every CI server (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI), and surfaces a “Quality Gate” that can fail a build if thresholds for bugs, vulnerabilities, or coverage are breached. The Community Edition is free and open source; commercial editions add security-focused rules and branch analysis.

Checkmarx

Checkmarx SAST focuses heavily on application security. It performs deep data-flow and taint analysis to trace how untrusted input travels through an application, making it popular for organizations with formal AppSec programs. It integrates into IDEs and CI/CD pipelines and provides detailed remediation guidance alongside findings.

Coverity (Synopsys)

Coverity is known for its low false-positive rate on compiled languages such as C, C++, Java, and C#. It is widely used in industries with stringent safety and security requirements—automotive, aerospace, and medical devices—where every defect matters. Synopsys acquired Coverity in 2014 and has since integrated it into a broader software integrity portfolio.

Black Duck (Synopsys)

Black Duck is a Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool rather than a traditional SAST tool. Its primary job is to inventory all open-source components in a codebase, flag known CVEs in those components, and report on license obligations. For organizations adopting open-source at scale, SCA tools like Black Duck are essential companions to SAST.

WhiteSource (now Mend)

WhiteSource (rebranded as Mend in 2022) also sits in the SCA category. It automatically detects open-source libraries, monitors for new CVEs on a continuous basis, and can open pull requests to update vulnerable dependencies—making it popular in GitHub and Azure DevOps workflows.

Micro Focus Fortify

Fortify Static Code Analyzer (now under OpenText after its acquisition of Micro Focus) performs deep inter-procedural analysis across a large number of languages. It is frequently chosen by large enterprises and government organizations that require extensive compliance reporting (PCI DSS, HIPAA, OWASP).

Klocwork

Klocwork (now part of Perforce) specializes in C, C++, Java, and C# analysis with a focus on safety-critical and embedded systems. It is commonly used in automotive and industrial applications where misra-C compliance is required.

ReSharper and ReSharper C++ (JetBrains)

ReSharper is a Visual Studio extension that provides real-time code inspection, refactoring assistance, and code-style enforcement for C# and .NET. ReSharper C++ extends similar capabilities to C++ developers. Both are developer-productivity tools that surface issues interactively as code is written, making them IDE-integrated static analysis rather than pipeline-level scanners.

PyCharm (JetBrains)

PyCharm is primarily a Python IDE, but its built-in inspections perform real-time static analysis: detecting unused imports, type mismatches (especially when used with type hints and mypy), unreachable code, and PEP 8 style violations. For Python teams, PyCharm’s inspections provide a low-friction first layer of analysis without requiring a separate tool.

Google Closure Compiler

The Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer and type-checker from Google. In addition to minifying and bundling JS, it performs static type checking when code is annotated with JSDoc types. It is less commonly used today as TypeScript and its own compiler have become the dominant approach to type-safe JavaScript, but it remains relevant for projects in the Google ecosystem.

How to Evaluate a Static Analysis Tool

No single tool is universally best. The right choice depends on your language stack, risk profile, and workflow. Consider the following criteria:

• Language and framework coverage – Confirm the tool supports every language in your repository, including infrastructure-as-code files (Terraform, CloudFormation) if applicable.
• Type of analysis – SAST for first-party code, SCA for open-source dependencies, or both? Many teams need both.
• False-positive rate – High noise causes developers to ignore findings. Evaluate tuning capabilities and default rule sets on a realistic sample of your codebase before committing.
• CI/CD integration – Does the tool have a native plugin for your pipeline (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)? Can it comment on pull requests with inline findings?
• IDE integration – Shifting analysis left into the IDE reduces the feedback loop. Tools with IDE plugins (SonarLint, Checkmarx IDE plugin, ReSharper) enable developers to fix issues before code is even committed.
• Incremental scanning – Full scans of large repositories can take hours. Differential or incremental analysis on changed files is important for developer experience in pull-request workflows.
• Compliance reporting – If you must demonstrate OWASP Top 10, CWE/SANS 25, PCI DSS, or similar compliance, confirm the tool maps findings to those standards.
• Licensing and cost model – Open-source tiers (SonarQube Community), per-developer licensing, and per-scan pricing models all have different total-cost profiles at scale.

Fitting Static Analysis into a DevOps Pipeline

The most effective implementations layer static analysis at multiple points:

1. IDE / pre-commit – Real-time inspections (ReSharper, PyCharm, SonarLint) catch trivial issues before a commit is made.
2. Pull-request gate – A lightweight incremental scan runs on changed files and posts inline comments. The Quality Gate can block merging if critical issues are introduced.
3. Nightly / release pipeline – A full scan with deeper rules runs less frequently and updates the central dashboard (SonarQube, Fortify SSC, Checkmarx CXSAST).
4. Dependency monitoring – SCA tools (Black Duck, Mend) watch for new CVEs in third-party components continuously, even between code changes.

Summary

Static code analysis has moved from a niche quality practice to a standard component of DevSecOps. Tools range from lightweight IDE inspections (PyCharm, ReSharper) to enterprise-grade SAST platforms (Coverity, Checkmarx, Fortify) and open-source composition analysis tools (Black Duck, Mend/WhiteSource). Choosing the right combination depends on your languages, security requirements, and the maturity of your CI/CD pipeline. Whichever tools you select, integrating analysis early—and acting on its findings consistently—is what delivers value.

Overview

WhiteSource, a provider of open source security and license compliance management tooling, announced a data partnership with GitHub in June 2019. The goal: broaden the coverage of GitHub’s built-in security vulnerability alerts by integrating WhiteSource’s aggregated vulnerability intelligence into GitHub’s dependency scanning features.

Background: GitHub Security Alerts

GitHub introduced security alerts in late 2017. The feature notifies repository owners when their project depends on a package with a known vulnerability, and where possible, suggests a remediated version. At the time of the WhiteSource announcement, GitHub’s security alerts covered the following ecosystems:

• JavaScript (npm)
• Ruby (RubyGems)
• Java (Maven)
• .NET (NuGet)
• Python (PyPI)

The alerts applied to both public and private repositories, giving teams visibility into vulnerable transitive and direct dependencies without leaving the platform.

What the WhiteSource Partnership Added

GitHub’s native vulnerability data was primarily sourced from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). While comprehensive, the NVD can lag behind public disclosure of vulnerabilities in actively maintained open source projects. WhiteSource supplemented this by aggregating vulnerability intelligence from multiple sources:

• National Vulnerability Database (NVD) — the industry-standard CVE repository maintained by NIST
• Security advisories — vendor and community advisories that may precede NVD publication
• Open source project issue trackers — bug reports and security disclosures filed directly in upstream repositories, which are sometimes never formally assigned a CVE

By combining these sources, the partnership aimed to surface vulnerabilities earlier and more completely than either party could achieve independently.

Why This Matters for DevOps Teams

Modern applications routinely pull in dozens or hundreds of open source dependencies, each of which can introduce transitive dependencies of their own. Manually tracking the security posture of this dependency graph is impractical at scale. Integrating vulnerability alerts directly into the developer workflow — at the repository level, before code ships — shifts security left without requiring developers to adopt separate tooling.

GitHub reported sending nearly 27 million security vulnerability alerts to users in the year leading up to this announcement, illustrating the scale at which automated dependency scanning was already operating across the platform.

Quotes From Both Parties

Together we will continue to empower developers to harness the power of open source without compromising on security or agility by simplifying the process of finding and fixing open source vulnerabilities.

Rami Sass, CEO, WhiteSource

Through our data partnership with WhiteSource, we’ll be able to further enhance our security vulnerability alerts, providing our customers with the continued security features they need to build secure software.

Shanku Niyogi, Senior Vice President of Product, GitHub

Context: WhiteSource and GitHub in 2023 and Beyond

This article documents the state of the partnership as announced in June 2019. Since then, both products have evolved significantly. WhiteSource was rebranded as Mend in 2022. GitHub has expanded its security capabilities substantially through the GitHub Advanced Security suite, which includes CodeQL-based code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot for automated dependency updates. Readers implementing open source security tooling today should consult the current documentation for both Mend and GitHub Advanced Security to understand the present integration landscape.