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title: "Correlation"
date: "2021-02-18T03:47:10+00:00"
url: "https://staging.checkmarx.com/glossary/correlation/"
description: "Correlation Glossary: Understand Data Relationships and Mitigate Risks. Explore Security Best Practices. [Correlation]"
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# Correlation

Correlation, or a correlation engine is an engine which based on findings from different other engines (SAST, KICS, SCA, etc.) **correlates between their findings** in order to discover things which cannot be found by any engine alone. For example, a correlation between an IaC scan and a SAST scan to add context to the SAST scan and then mark it as “not-exploitable”