Re: Security Standard Branding & Expectation Checklists

[Brett Hutley <brett () hutley net>]

Jared W. Robinson wrote:


Could a branding campaign be used to promote secure software?

Various people have stated that the reason software isn't more secure is
that consumers don't demand it. Some kind of a consumer-targeted
branding campaign might help.

The idea would be to put a sticker or a logo on software that met some
level of security expectation. Customers could be educated to look for
these stickers, and it would hopefully influence their purchasing
decisions.


*snip*

I think it's a good idea. Remember 10+ years ago when software shipped 
with a tick mark on it and the label "Purified", to indicate that the 
developers had run Purify over the code to identify memory leaks?


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