Coverity's Coverity Prevent has been chosen as the tool to conduct daily security audits of open source software projects for the Department of Homeland Security.

Funding comes from a new Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency grant. The initiative is meant to help secure cyberspace.

Audit results are to be published daily on the Web. The aim is to help developers, industry and government identify and correct security vulnerabilities.

The three-year grant, called the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open Source Hardening Project," is part of a broad federal initiative by the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) to foster the development and deployment of technologies to protect the nation's telecommunications infrastructure, including the Internet and other critical networks that depend on computer systems for their mission.

Coverity Prevent finds more than 20 different types of security vulnerabilities at the source code level. Secure coding practices can be enforced and identify "true vulnerabilities".

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