At 8:53 AM -0700 7/18/07, McCown, Christian M wrote: > Content-class: urn:content-classes:message > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C7C953.D03CBE5C" > > What do you tell a C-level exec in terms of h/c and time it will take to >fix web app vulnerabilities discovered in a website? > > X number of vulnerabilities = Y h/c and Z time. > > Of course there's a host of factors/variables involved that could wind up >looking like actuarial tables or DNA sequences (!), but what we'd like to >be able to do is sum it up as an initial swag and let the app owners use >it as a factor in calculating the actual time to remediate.
Look at the track record for _that_organization_ fixing previous vulnerabilities. -- Larry Kilgallen _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. _______________________________________________