Consortium to Target Web App Security

["Kenneth R. van Wyk" <Ken () KRvW com>]

eWeek announced today that a consortium of product vendors (including  
Application Security Inc., KaVaDo Inc., Sanctum Inc., SPI Dynamics Inc. and 
WhiteHat Security Inc.) is being formed to address issues of web application 
security.  (See the full article at: 
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1529595,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594)

The article outlines various goals of the organization, including "to create a 
classification system for application security vulnerabilities, attacks and 
other threats."  IMHO, that sounds pretty reactive, but the article also says 
that the group will work on, "the establishment of industry best practices in 
several areas, particularly secure coding."

If anyone here has more substantive info about the consortium that they can 
and care to share, please pass it along.

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
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KRvW Associates, LLC
http://www.KRvW.com