Software is a crucial component of daily living, affecting our privacy, worldwide economic structures, and the services we depend on every day. With the increasing rate of security breaches, today’s applications need to be built more securely at the code level, and that code needs to be tested regularly. The Software Assurance Marketplace was developed to make it easier to consistently test the quality and security of these applications and bring a transformative change to the software assurance landscape by reducing the number of weaknesses deployed in software.

There are two ways to use the SWAMP: the ready-to-use cloud computing platform at mir-swamp.org or the SWAMP-in-a-Box (SiB) open-source distribution that is downloadable from GitHub. Both are available at no-cost to you and include an array of open-source and commercial software security testing tools as well as a comprehensive results viewer to simplify vulnerability remediation. Each also supports an API, allowing you to integrate the SWAMP into existing software development workflows.

• MIR-SWAMP supports software assurance with minimal fuss and is a good way to try out the SWAMP either for use as part of a class or regular day-to-day usage. It also offers a library of applications with known vulnerabilities, enabling tool developers to improve the effectiveness of their own static and dynamic testing tools.
• SWAMP-in-a-Box can be deployed on your own servers if you have higher security or compliance requirements for your software or, being open-source, when you want to customize the software.

Upcoming Events

• Bart Miller and Elisa Heymann are teaching a secure coding tutorial, “Think Like an Attacker!,” at The University of Iowa on Tuesday, 9/17 from 8am to 12:30pm in the Herky Room (#343) of the Iowa Memorial Union.
• Coming to the Gateways 2019 conference in San Diego, California this fall? Register for the “Secure Coding Practices and Automated Assessment Tools” tutorial on Monday, September 23 from 9:00am to 12:30pm.
• Meet us at Supercomputing 2019 in Denver, Colorado! Attend the tutorial, “Secure Coding Practices and Automated Assessment Tools,” on Sunday, November 17 from 8:30am to 5:00pm.
• SWAMP’s Chief Scientist, Bart Miller, and Elisa Heymann will be giving a tutorial at the Internet2 2019 Technology Exchange on Monday, December 9 in New Orleans, Louisiana. “Securing Coding Practices & Automated Assessment Tools” will be from 8:30am to 4:30pm.

The SWAMP Team

The SWAMP Partners