On the 30th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with Ken van Wyk, principal and founder of KRvW Associates. Ken was the first employee of CERT and has been an active member of FIRST. Ken and Gary discuss why the discipline of computer science doesn’t learn from failure like mechanical engineering does, how we’re making steps backwards in computer security, whether focusing on web applications is a good or bad thing for software security, and Ken’s recommendation for moderately-priced red wines.

• Ken’s personal page
• KRvW Associates
• CERT
• FIRST
• Secure Coding
• Incident Response
• SC-L mailing list
• From the foreword to Secure Programming with Static Analysis - blog entry with photo of Tacoma Narrows Bridge
• TJX’s stock increase since the January 2007 security breach
• The Addison-Wesley Software Security Series
• Barbara D’Asti wines

This is the best book on the topic there is, and I recommend it to everyone working in this field -- and not just because I wrote the foreword. You can download the preface and six chapters. (You can also download the entire first edition.)