InformIT: budgeting for software security

[jim at manico.net (Jim Manico)]

> 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 
> <mailto: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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