Re: Application Security Debt and Application Interest Rates

[Chris Wysopal <cwysopal () veracode com>]

Once you have a model and some rough data sources you can iterate and attempt precision that is useable.  I agree that 
the precision isn't there yet (my scientific way of saying "smoke and mirrors") but I won't rule out that this can get 
good enough to be used for decision making.

There are decisions being made on app sec spending but it is ad hoc right now. Organizations are spending money of app 
sec and they are also spending money on cleaning up breaches.  They do think about reducing breach costs to the 
organization. This model can help them do that.

-Chris 

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From: sc-l-bounces () securecoding org [mailto:sc-l-bounces () securecoding org] On Behalf Of Johan Peeters
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 12:53 PM
To: SC-L () securecoding org
Subject: Re: [SC-L] Application Security Debt and Application Interest Rates

Security debt seems to me a very useful concept. Thanks, Chris.
As I pointed out in my blog post
(http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=320875), I do not believe in quantitative models though. Clearly, it 
is interesting to try to nail the factors that contribute to the cost and to establish whether it is cheaper to pay 
back or service the debt, but to put numbers on these costs is smoke and mirrors imho.

kr,

Yo

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Sammy Migues <SMigues () cigital com> wrote:
> Just in case others have missed it, there’s a response from Russell 
> Thomas on the New School blog at 
> http://newschoolsecurity.com/2011/03/fixes-to-wysophal’s-application-security-debt-metric/.
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> From: sc-l-bounces () securecoding org 
> [mailto:sc-l-bounces () securecoding org]
> On Behalf Of Chris Wysopal
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 7:38 PM
> To: SC-L () securecoding org
> Subject: [SC-L] Application Security Debt and Application Interest 
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> I have a couple of blog posts modeling application vulnerabilities the 
> way you might think of technical debt.
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> Part I: Application Security Debt and Application Interest Rates
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> http://www.veracode.com/blog/2011/02/application-security-debt-and-app
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> Part II: A Financial Model for Application Security Debt
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> http://www.veracode.com/blog/2011/03/a-financial-model-for-application
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> -Chris
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