How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell

Fortify, a security scanning tool for code, has some great features but also some limiting features. Therefore I sought to use their open REST API to expand on its functionality to enhance how we are using it within the DevOps pipeline. This was of course step one to find how to authenticate with Fortify to start doing the requests to its services.

Fortify does have the Swagger page of the URL’s to show what endpoints it offers, but doesn’t detail the authentication endpoint. It then does have the documentation on how to authenticate, but it is not detailed out for easy use.

Therefore this is why I thought I would expand on the details to show other how to authenticate easily, while using PowerShell as the chosen language.

Continue Reading Full Story at http://prcode.co.uk on August 5, 2019.