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The Benefits of SAST and SCA in Your IDE – Utsav Sanghani – ASW #101

March 23, 2020

Static application security testing (SAST) is critical for uncovering and eliminating issues in proprietary code. However, over 60% of the code in an average application today is composed of open source components. SAST isn't designed to find open source vulnerabilities (CVEs) or identify open source licenses. And manually maintaining a repository of approved open source components for developers is inefficient and time-consuming. That’s where software composition analysis (SCA) comes in. Introducing a new functionality within the Code Sight IDE plugin that combines SAST and SCA in one place to enable secure development.

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Guest

Utsav Sanghani

Senior Product Manager at Synopsys

Utsav Sanghani is a senior product manager at Synopsys where he supports strategic cloud product initiatives. He works closely with customers, engineers, and design teams to guide strategic products from conception to launch and straightens out any potential hurdles in the process. He holds a business degree from Dartmouth College and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Mumbai, India.

Hosts

Tech Lead at Block

Senior Engineering Leader at AWS

Chief Product Officer at CyberSaint

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