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Software Security Training for Developers
From: nish at securitycompass.com (Nish Bhalla)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:21:12 -0400
Hi Chris, We at Security Compass have been doing that for developers for about 2 years now. We have done this type of training and also the training from the pen tester angle. Some of the things that we have seem make this training much more effective are [] If the direction for the training and security initiative is coming in from the top rather than just from one manager (not to say that having it from one manager doesn't help) [] If there are some general policy and guidelines to building secure software [] If there are general guidelines to build secure architecture [] if there are though processes in place for updating the existing SDLC with security in place to improve the overall direction of the company towards a more secure application development practice [] Finally if the training is developed around these kind of practices and customized to your specific environment. We also think providing different kinds of training for different levels of people is important, i.e. a training for managers, a training for architects, a training for QA/Security professionals and finally a training for developers. Each has a specific goal in mind and speaking in the individual language so to speak to each group. Hope this helps, If you would like to chat more just email me. Nish. _____ From: sc-l-bounces at securecoding.org [mailto:sc-l-bounces at securecoding.org] On Behalf Of McCown, Christian M Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:23 PM To: sc-l at securecoding.org Subject: [SC-L] Software Security Training for Developers What are folks' experiences with software security training for developers? By this, I'm referring to teaching developers how to write secure code. Ex. things like how to actually code input validation routines, what "evil" functions and libraries to avoid, how to handle exceptions without divulging too much info, etc. Not "how to hack applications". There are quality courses and training that show you how to break into apps--which are great, but my concern is that if you are a developer (vs. a security analyst, QA type, pen-tester, etc.),even when you know what could happen, unless you've been specifically taught how to implement these concepts in your language/platform of choice (ASP .NET, C#, Java, etc.), you're not getting the most bang for the buck from them. What vendors teach it? How much does it cost? Actual impact realized? Tx ____ Chris McCown, GSEC(Gold) Intel Corporation * (916) 377-9428 | * <mailto:c.mccown at intel.com> c.mccown at intel.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://krvw.com/pipermail/sc-l/attachments/20070816/cc646e8b/attachment.html
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