Application Security

OpenText Static Application Security Testing (Fortify)

Find and fix security issues early with industry-leading accuracy

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Overview

Identify application security issues at the source, prioritize critical risks, and get detailed guidance to fix them

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OpenText™ Static Application Security Testing (Fortify) (SAST) identifies and remediates security vulnerabilities in source code with precision. Extensive language coverage and seamless CI/CD integration streamline security across the SDLC. Advanced static code analysis and AI-driven insights prioritize risks and enable developers to resolve vulnerabilities efficiently, reducing overall security risk.

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Why OpenText Static Application Security Testing?

Catch code vulnerabilities early, reducing development time and cost while integrating seamlessly into the SDLC. Identify twice as many vulnerabilities and reduce false positives, enabling faster, more efficient remediation.

  • Automate
    security in the CI/CD pipeline
    Integrate with CI/CD tools, including Jenkins, Jira, Atlassian Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Eclipse, and Microsoft Visual Studio.
  • 95%
    fewer false positives
    Customize code analysis and apply rules to identify legitimate violations quickly, with multiple options to view results.
  • 25%
    faster development time
    Identity and eliminate vulnerabilities early in development, with accurate results based on the OWASP 1.2b benchmark, improving speed and quality.

Use cases

OpenText SAST delivers comprehensive security across many development languages while integrating with your dev tool of choice. Balance speed and accuracy with custom scan depth, reduce false positives with AI assistance, and scale dynamically.

  • Gain support for 1,657 vulnerability categories across 33+ languages, spanning more than one million individual APIs.

  • Gain control of the speed and accuracy of SAST by tuning the depth of the scan and minimizing false positives with Audit Assistant.

  • Achieve comprehensive shift-left security for cloud-native applications—from IaC to serverless—in a single solution.

  • Embed security into the application development tools you use with OpenText SAST’s integration ecosystem.

  • Dynamically scale SAST scans up or down to meet the changing demands of the CI/CD pipeline.

  • Choose the deployment option that’s right for you: on premises, in the cloud, or AppSec-as-a-service.

Key features

OpenText SAST integrates seamlessly with your workflow, offering flexible deployment options, multi-language support, real-time analysis, and AI-driven automation to enhance application security without sacrificing speed

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Developer-friendly language coverage

Supports ABAP/BSP, ActionScript, Apex, ASP.NET, C# (.NET), C/C++, Classic, ASP (with VBScript), COBOL, ColdFusion CFML, Go, HTML, Java (including Android), JavaScript /AJAX, JSP, Kotlin, and more.

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Flexible deployment options

Includes options such as the SaaS-based OpenText™ Core Application Security Testing platform, private hosted, which combines SaaS and on-premises features, and off-cloud, which offers full control over the application security testing solution.

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Real-time code security analysis and results

Provides structural and configuration analyzers that are purpose built for speed and efficiency. Security Assistant only returns high-confidence findings with immediate results in the IDE.

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Automation with applied machine learning

Provides automated audit results in minutes, minimizing auditor workload and prioritizing issues with accurate and consistent audit results.

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ScanCentral

Enables lightweight packaging on the build server and provides a scalable, centralized scanning infrastructure.


Integrations

OpenText SAST provides accurate support for 33+ major languages and their frameworks, with agile updates backed by the industry-leading Software Security Research (SSR) team

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Ruby logoRuby
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Microsoft Visual Basics logoMicrosoft Visual Basics
Visual Basic logoVisual Basic
Windows Mobile logoWindows Mobile
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YAML logoYAML

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