Welcome to the 6th episode of our Security Culture Campaign! On today’s show Matt Konda talks Static Analysis.

There are a lot of static analysis tools out there. The simplest might be eslint , for which there are even security rulesets - the docs for which have some handy illustrations for the types of things these tools can find.

We recommend:

Using a linter locally in your code editor if applicable - but only if applicable

Using a static analysis tool in your CI/CD pipeline - if it finds useful things

Assuming you may need to spend time tuning the tool to get the results you want

Start with free tools and build the process and habit, then consider using commercial tools

Augment static analysis with code review

Consider an assisted code review strategy

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