Re: The biggest thing affecting software security? People, apparently.

[Amit <amit.deshmukh () security-assessment com>]

Its also people that make/dont make the right decisions on implementing 
the right processes to improve security...

Cheers,
Amit.

Clinton E. Troutman wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 10:09, Nick Murison wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > www.threatsandcountermeasures.com just closed their poll on what people
> > thought was the biggest thing affecting software security.  The results
> > were:
> >
> > People:     80.3%
> > Process:    18.2%
> > Technology:  1.5%
> >
> > Results also available from
> > www.threatsandcountermeasures.com/PastPolls.aspx.
> >
> > If this is the case, then why is there such a huge financial investment in
> > security technology?  Is the human factor expected to magically improves
> > once we've got the "right" technology?
> >
> > For our new poll, Threats and Countermeasures are asking what people
> > consider to be the more secure web application development platform; JSP,
> > PHP, ColdFusion, ASP.NET or old-skool CGI.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >    
>
> Ignorance can be fixed.
> Software can be fixed.
> Stupid is forever...
>
>  


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