While programmers are increasingly being asked to fix security issues during development, common software security scanners — known as static application security testing (SAST) tools — have a variety of usability issues that make them less accessible to developers, according to research presented at the USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) on August 11. The research, conducted by researchers at Lafayette College and Google, found that the tools failed to provide obvious actions to manage the results of a scan or to fix vulnerabilities, failed to provide recommendations to prioritize vulnerability remediation, and had significant issues scaling to represent a large number of results.

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