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Maqbool Malik here… One of the most significant update to CAT.NET in v2.0 is the addition of a configuration engine. The goal of the engine is to identify insecure configuration at all layers of the application (configuration files, code level configuration,
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RV here... With the new build of CAT.NET available on connect.microsoft.com you must have noticed that the new version includes only a command line tool. We we will be releasing the Visual Studio rules as part of Beta1 release. So lets look at how we
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RV here... Last year we developed an internal tool to review servers for security configuration issues. Microsoft offers several enterprise options for doing this such as Systems Center Configuration Manager but the requirements were for a lightweight
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Andreas Fuchsberger here….. Within the Information Security Tools Group we are now really getting into a redesign of our popular Code Analysis Tool for .NET (CAT.NET). One of the biggest challenges we have is to redesign the engine so that it no longer
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Mark Curphey here......( @curphey on Twitter) There is a stack of new interesting videos and posts related to the software security tools we build that I found this week. Ben Livshits video on the architecture of CAT.NET here RV talking about TAM 3.0
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Syed Aslam Basha here…..I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. There is a new build of CAT.NET Version 1.1.1.9 now available for download on MSDN ( 32 bit here and 64 bit here ). We recommend *ALL* users upgrade to this latest release,
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Mark Curphey here (Follow me using @curphey on Twitter ). June is a busy time of year around MSFT. For most teams you have a pretty good idea about your budget for the next year (July – July) and the end of year performance review cycle kicks in. You
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Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team and responsible for testing CAT.NET. You can run CAT.NET as; A Visual studio add-in From Command prompt As an FXCop rule Lastly, integrated into VSTF Team build as an MSBuild
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We are planning a complete re-write of the core CAT.NET engine starting July 1st to get a scalable engine from which we can build on. Building graphs from code is “expensive” hence the OOM issues with the current version. We do it all in memory.. doh!
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