There are many commercial and open source secure coding tools. Does any tool offer a low false positive rate with a high detection rate?
Answer: There are no perfect or outstanding tools that offer high detection rates with low false positive rates. Every tool offers a different scanning results. The high positive rate can also mean more conservative scanning, which identifies more potential or suspicious code issues. You will find the detection rate and scanning results also vary with different tools. Tool A may be able to detect an issue that tool B can't, and vice versa. In practice, it's also suggested to use at least two tools for code scanning as a cross-reference review.
The scanning results may list over 1,000 issues. Is there any advice on how to handle these issues?
Answer: For a large-scale project, it's very common to have such...
