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SANS Institute - CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous ProgrammingErrors
From: gem at cigital.com (Gary McGraw)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:49:55 -0500
hi sc-l, There are some important good things about top ten lists that are worthy of mention. The notion of knowing your enemy is essential in security (as it is in warfare), and top ten lists can help get software people started thinking about attacks, attackers, and the vulnerabilities they go after. These days almost any attention paid to the problem is good attention, and the fact that the the tech press is paying attention to software security at all is a good thing. Top ten lists help in that respect. But, I am really worried about these kinds of lists and I wrote up my worries in an article that was just posted: Top Eleven Reasons Why Top 10 (or Top 25) Lists Don't Work http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1322398 I thought you might get a kick out of it. gem http://www.cigital.com/~gem
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