Insecure Software Costs US $180B per Year - Application and Perimeter Security News Analysis - Dark Reading

[ken at krvw.com (Kenneth Van Wyk)]

FYI, there's a provocative article over on Dark Reading today.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=140184

The article quotes David Rice, who has a book out called   
"Geekconomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software".  In it, he tried  
to quantify how much insecure software costs the public and, more  
controversially, proposes a "vulnerability tax" on software  
developers.  He believes such a tax would result in more secure  
software.

IMHO, if all developers paid the tax, then I can't see it resulting in  
anything other than more expensive software...  Perhaps I'm just  
missing something, though.

Cheers,

Ken

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Kenneth R. van Wyk
SC-L Moderator
KRvW Associates, LLC
http://www.KRvW.com




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