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

[BlueBoar at thievco.com (Blue Boar)]

Andy Steingruebl wrote:
> I like contractual approaches to this problem myself.  People buying
> large quantities of software (large enterprises, governments) should
> get contracts with vendors that specify money-back for each patch they
> have to apply where the root cause is of a given type.  For example, I
> get money back every time the vendor has a vulnerability and patch
> related to a buffer overflow.

That changes the incentive to hide security bugs and not patch them or
to slipstream them.

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