InformIT: budgeting for software security

[stephencraig.evans at gmail.com (Stephen Craig Evans)]

Hi Jim,

I am an infosec newbie but a fierce historian. I have read your previous
posts and I completely respect you.

I cannot agree with your premise that resources are limited on Planet Earth.
There are gobs and gobs of oil to be had within the boundaries of the United
States but the eco-nazis have prevented it, hence creating $3 dollar gallon
of gas and our dependence on very unsavoury characters. The same with
nuclear power (look up a great George Gilder interview on
itconversations.com).

Of course, that's why all the big security vendors and their underlings (the
mainstream press) create all of this hoopla; otherwise, they would be out of
work.

Cheers,
Stephen

P.S. Thanks to the Moderator for letting this through.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Jim Manico <jim at manico.net> wrote:

>  > What does 'green technology' have to do with infosec?
>
> Data centerers worldwide use at least 3% of all global electricity. With
> the growing cost of oil/power - most large corporations are looking for ways
> to reduce power consumption at their data centers. Google is building new
> database centers near cheap power, cheap land, and cheap water. Sun has "bet
> the farm" on Green issues. IBM and Intel have green/sustainability
> departments as well.
>
>
> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Disruptive-Forces-Sun-Microsystems/
>
> - Jim
>
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> How can any security conference that has Al Gore as a keynote speaker be
> taken seriously? What does 'green technology' have to do with infosec? And
> why is his keynote the only one with the tag "*(Please note that this
> keynote session will not be available via webcast replay.)"? *Now there's
> openness for you  (/sarc). What a joke.
>
> I'm looking forward to your new series of columns; they were getting too
> infrequent on Dark Reading.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Gary McGraw <gem at cigital.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi sc-l,
> >
> > Greetings from RSA.  This year the marketing people outnumber the
> > technical people 1000 to 1.  There are over 18,000 people here.  You do the
> > math.
> >
> > I recently moved my monthly security column from darkreading to
> > informIT.  I am refocusing the column on software security and business.
> >
> > My first column just went live:
> > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1189519
> >
> > It's about a business trick that Phil Venables uses with great
> > success---that is, using TCO to drive security into software.  This shows
> > what you can accomplish with a combination of software insight and business
> > acumen.
> >
> > I'm very much interested in your feedback on my move to informIT as well
> > as the content of this first article.  Let me know what you think.
> >
> > gem
> >
> > www.cigital.com/~gem <http://www.cigital.com/%7Egem>
> >
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