Q002 — Barriers to OSS Security Scanning Adoption — Self-Audit¶
Contents¶
Process Audit (Analytical Domains)¶
| Domain | Rating | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation Consistency | Pass | The assessment treated the academic maintainer study (strong reliability) and the vendor blog (moderate reliability) with appropriate differential rigor. The false-positive rate data from Pixee's blog |
| Synthesis Fairness | Pass | The synthesis fairly represented all three evidence clusters (barriers, false positives, Log4j decay) without over-weighting any. The conclusion correctly states that 'security fatigue' as a temporal |
Source-Back Verification¶
Sources verified: 3
Discrepancies¶
- minor at https://www.pixee.ai/blog/sast-false-positives-reduction
- Assessment claims: Ghost Security found a 91% false positive rate scanning public GitHub repositories
- Source actually says: The Pixee blog reports this as 'Ghost Security found that 91% of alerts were false positives when scanning public GitHub repositories across Go, Python, and PHP' — the blog cites Ghost Security's research but does not link to the primary Ghost Security publication.