All:

I just had a meeting regarding one of my apps today with some central IT types at our university. One of the questions that was asked of me (for the first time actually) was whether I had run a security scanner test the application. While I'm not so naive as to think there can't be any security issues, I had always felt that the many levels of abstraction in WO/EOF naturally insulated me from some of these considerations.

For background, this central IT group is heavily microsoft leaning - so they kind of live in a different world where security is concerned and think they believe that the entire world of computing has the same architectural considerations they do. Their question was obviously out of concern that an attack could be crafted against the app to extract data from the database. It's difficult for me to imagine how this would be possible with WO/EOF but I may have naively looked past this.

To get to the point, I'd be interested in hearing from developers on list about whether you have scans performed against your apps. Yes or no, what were the considerations that drove the choice.

Tim Worman
UCLA GSE&IS
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