Sonar announced the upcoming availability of SonarQube Advanced Security. The new offering will extend SonarQube's analysis capabilities beyond first-party and AI-generated code to include third-party open source code. With this announcement, Sonar will deliver the first fully integrated solution for developers to find and fix code quality and code security issues in the development phase of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). 

SonarQube Advanced Security includes Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and advanced Static Application Security Testing (SAST), and will be available to all SonarQube customers. Today, SonarQube is the industry standard for code quality, used by +7 million developers at over 400,000 organizations.  

Code security features to supercharge developers

Sonar's new, enhanced security offering gives developers unprecedented visibility to find and fix security issues as they code. SonarQube Advanced Security features strengthen a robust set of existing security capabilities, which will remain available in the core SonarQube solution.

SonarQube Advanced Security includes the following features:  

• Software Composition Analysis (SCA): 
• Vulnerability identification in third-party dependencies. Streamlined processes for tracking, managing, and mitigating known vulnerabilities (including CVEs) in third-party open source dependencies.
• License compliance. Ensuring that all incorporated components meet the organization's policies for allowed software licenses.
• The ability to generate software bill of materials (SBOMs). Detailed inventories that help teams understand, manage, and report on the composition of their code.
• Advanced SAST. Detection of hidden vulnerabilities in your code's interactions with third-party dependencies that traditional tools fail to detect.
  

SonarQube core code security capabilities include: 

• SAST. The foundation of secure code, identifying security weaknesses and vulnerabilities in first-party code.
• Taint analysis. Uncovering injection vulnerabilities (e.g. cross-site scripting, SQL Injection) that span multiple files to ensure user input is used safely across the entire application.
• Secrets detection. Automatically scanning for hard-coded secrets, helping teams prevent credential leakage.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning. Finding security misconfigurations in your infrastructure as code to ensure secure production environments.
• Security reporting. Report on code compliance for standards like OWASP Top 10, PCI DSS, STIG, CASA, and CWE Top 25.
• Security engine custom configuration. Fine-tune security configurations for organization-specific needs.

"Our approach to code security is rooted in the same philosophy that allowed us to become the leaders in code quality - we put developers first," said Tariq Shaukat, CEO of Sonar. "The release of advanced security features as an extension of our existing SonarQube offering provides an even more comprehensive integrated code quality and code security solution that empowers developers to build better, faster."

SonarQube Advanced Security is the first step in integrating Sonar's recent acquisition of Tidelift and its unique, proactive approach to improving third-party code quality and code security by working directly with open source maintainers. 

Starting Left: An integrated approach to code quality and code security 

SonarQube Advanced Security takes the concept of "shift left" a step further to "start left." With this "start left" approach, code security and code quality issues are prioritized at the beginning of the SDLC. The later code security and code quality issues are caught in the SDLC, the more expensive they are to fix. By starting left, developers increase their productivity and effectiveness while producing high quality, secure code.