US Homeland Security to help fix bugs in Open Source Software Projects

US Homeland Security to help fix bugs in Open Source Software Projects

Coverity, Inc., makers of the world’s most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution, today announced its flagship product, Coverity Prevent, has been chosen to conduct daily security audits of leading open source software projects under a new federal Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency grant designed to help secure cyberspace. The audit results will be published daily on the Web and are intended to help the development community, industry and government both identify and correct security vulnerabilities in some of the most important and widely-used software in the world.

The three-year grant, called the “Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open Source Hardening Project,” is part of a broad federal initiative by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) to foster the development and deployment of technologies to protect the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure, including the Internet and other critical networks that depend on computer systems for their mission.

“The DHS grant is the latest proof of the tremendous traction we are seeing in the market with Coverity Prevent(TM) in the market,” said David Park, VP of marketing & business development at Coverity. “In less than two years we have successfully demonstrated the value of our solution by gaining more than 100 customers. What better validation of our technology than to be selected by the federal government for such a critical security initiative. The government has extremely high security standards and we are glad that Coverity meets their requirements.”