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CodeQL zero to hero part 1: the fundamentals of static analysis for vulnerability research - The GitHub Blog

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Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research! In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries. Static analysis (static code analysis or static program analysis) is a process that allows you to analyze an application’s code for potential errors without executing the code itself. The technique can be used to perform various checks, verification, and to highlight issues in the code. At Github, we perform static analysis in code scanning via CodeQL, our semantic analysis engine. This blog series will give you an introduction to static analysis concepts, an overview of CodeQL, how you can leverage static analysis for security research, and teach you how to write custom CodeQL queries. If you’d like to jump right into learning CodeQL, check out my other blog post—CodeQL zero to hero par

Sylwia is a security researcher at GitHub Security Lab, where she works with finding vulnerabilities in open source software, helping secure the foundations on which all modern software is built upon.

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