BSIMM: Confessions of a Software Security Alchemist(informIT)

[jim at manico.net (Jim Manico)]

This is why I'm not fond if leading with a tool. I prefer to lead with  
architectural/design analysis and targeted manual review of high risk  
applications.

Jim Manico
jim at manico.net

On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:06 AM, "Goertzel, Karen [USA]" <goertzel_karen at bah.com 
> wrote:

> Except when they're hardware bugs. :)
>
> I think the differentiation is also meaningful in this regard: I can  
> specify software that does non-secure things. I can implement that  
> software 100% correctly. Ipso facto - no software bugs. But the fact  
> remains that the software doesn't validate input because I didn't  
> specify it to validate input, or it doesn't encrypt passwords  
> because I didn't specify it to do so. I built to spec; it just  
> happened to be a stupid spec. So the spec is flawed - but the  
> implemented software conforms to that stupid spec 100%, so by  
> definition it not flawed. It is, however, non-secure.
>
> --
> Karen Mercedes Goertzel, CISSP
> Booz Allen Hamilton
> 703.698.7454
> goertzel_karen at bah.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sc-l-bounces at securecoding.org on behalf of Benjamin Tomhave
> Sent: Thu 19-Mar-09 19:28
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> Subject: Re: [SC-L] BSIMM: Confessions of a Software Security  
> Alchemist(informIT)
>
> Why are we differentiating between "software" and "security" bugs? It
> seems to me that all bugs are software bugs, ...
>
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