Re: [SC-L] Application Insecurity --- Who is at Fault?

2005-04-19 Thread George Capehart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Crispin Cowan wrote: > >> This is particularly interesting to me because I just had a doctoral >> student come to me with an idea for dissertation research that >> included an hypothesis that organizations at SEI 1 were better able to >> estimate so

RE: [SC-L] Doing something about software security

2005-04-19 Thread Gunnar Peterson
Thanks for the feedback and link (as well as to those who have replied off line). Note, I did not intend that the 5 tools I listed were exhaustive, just trying to get an idea what works in the field and wanted to get the ball rolling. Any other candidates out there? Flawfinder, anyone? -gp Quoti

RE: [SC-L] Doing something about software security

2005-04-19 Thread jasonw
You seem to be leaving out one of the largest open efforts at security. ISECOM at http://www.isecom.org covers security testing, secure coding, incident response and other security related topics. -Original Message- From: Gunnar Peterson Date: 4/19/05 6:32 am To: Secure Coding Mailing

[SC-L] Doing something about software security

2005-04-19 Thread Gunnar Peterson
I was thinking about something that Dave Winer said on the Gillmor Gang about how the software industry moves forward when small groups (like 1 or 2) of developers get motivated to solve a problem. I was wondering how this applies to software security, since it seems like a perfect description for