Facebook engineers receive 2021 IEEE Computer Society Cybersecurity Award for static analysis tools
Oct 20, 2021Clyde Rodriguez
Summary
This post details the development and deployment of static analysis tools (Infer, Zoncolan, Pysa, Mariana Trench) for finding and preventing security and privacy bugs at scale across multiple programming languages (Hack, Python, Java) and platforms (server-side, Android). It highlights the award received for these tools and their open-sourcing to benefit the wider industry.
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