Cigital news (European market)

[gem at cigital.com (Gary McGraw)]

hi all,

In my view, the European market now looks very similar to the US market of 2-3 years ago (not a decade ago).  I predict 
a rash of pen testing, folllowed by adoption of SDLC integration.  This will, of course, evolve in a very European way 
and there will be important regional differences.  The good news is that the market is very likely to consolidate 
quickly to a very reasonable approach to software security.  In that sense only will the market be like the US market.  
I believe it will get things right more easily.

BTW, I have seen "the same" phenomenon in the US as NY led and the West coast (read CA) followed in software security.  
This is, of course, a huge generalization.  The west coast is still in the throes of pen testing for the most part and 
just beginning to adopt software security initiatives.

gem

http://www.cigital.com/~gem


On 5/19/09 9:55 PM, "Benjamin Tomhave" <list-spam at secureconsulting.net> wrote:

Kenneth Van Wyk wrote:
> But I just don't get the feeling that they're trying in any way to
> "align themselves with the US market".  They'll do their own thing in
> their own time, which is as it should be.
That syncs with my limited experience with Europeans, both in the past
(the French in particular) and in the present (Dutch). Any suggestion
that Europe will "follow" the US is probably an error in judgment and
highly likely to offend. We should never forget that we're a mere 233
years old independently compared to their several centuries. The Roman
Empire lasted almost twice that long.

-ben

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