"Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket"

[Paul Vixie <paul () vix com>]

...

"This backward methodology to security is inefficient and exceedingly
expensive. To keep valuable assets protected, IT staffers must constantly
track software vulnerability databases in order to stay one step ahead of the
bad guys.  Each vendor patch release leads to an IT fire drill of testing and
remediating all vulnerable systems.  It is estimated that fixing software
security problems in production environments can be more than 100 times more
costly than doing so in the development cycle."

...

http://news.com.com/2010-1002_3-6139456.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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