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Economics of secure software

2007-01-21 10:13:02 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...secure product in the current marketplace. Holding a software liable (to an extent) for not making a secure product can not only force the software vendor to fix the problem but also provide economic incentive for the software vendor to make secure product I agree with Schneier's view of holding vendor liable for insecure software, but I...
 
Tags: software, secure, secure product, product, software vendor, software vendors, vendor, price, initial purchase price
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Environments will be more secure than their physical counter parts by 2010

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2008-03-22 18:29:17 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...secure than their physical counter parts by 2010 Neil McDonald of Gartner reported in 2007 that throughout 2009, 60% of virtual environment deployments would be less secure than their physical counter parts Although I tend to believe Neils prediction Im a bit optimistic about the markets awareness of the security concerns within virtualized...
 
Tags: security concerns, application security concerns, virtual, concerns, server, virtual server, virtual appliances, security infrastructure due, lift
 
 
 
 
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Ask Securosis, Is Safari Less Secure?

2008-02-29 23:15:04 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...secure is its lack of anti-phishing features or support for Extended Validation SSL certificates. For you non-geeks, those are extra, higher cost, digital certificates that highly trusted websites can buy to prove they are who they say they are. A few snippets Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what they need to do, to protect their...
 
Tags: safari, paypals web site, site, macworlds web site, main reason safari, web site andor, improve safari security, security, support
 
 
 
 
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Alternative to VPN: IronKey's Secure Network

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2008-03-31 14:26:54 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...secure USB drive: The IronKey is a seriously secure device, designed with a variety of physical, hardware, and software elements that make it as unhackable as possible: it's got its own hardware encryption chip built in, uses robust flash memory, and can sense physical intrusion. But it's got one more element that Selena Frye highlighted in a...
 
Tags: ironkey, secure, ironkey plug-in, secure usb drive, ironkey runs, ironkey appears, secure device, covers secure, hardware
 
 
 
 
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How Secure is Secure?

2008-05-08 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...secure is secure is far more difficult than one might think. Id like to share my perspective that there are two dimensions useful to consider when characterizing software security metrics: security functional requirements and security engineering quality requirements . While the SDL is focused primarily (but not exclusively) on the latter,...
 
Tags: security metrics, software security metrics, implementation vulnerabilities, potential implementation vulnerabilities, metrics, secure, software, discretionary security protection, security protection
 
 
 
 
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The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem

2008-02-21 14:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...secure is many black hats LOVE open source principles Can someone please slap MSoft in the teeth I can't actually remember a time when my mac needed a patch to fix a security hole You get the picture. I could keep going, but I have a blog post to write So let's ignore raw stats for a moment, let's not compare RedHat to Mac OSX to Ubuntu to...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, reduce security vulnerabilities, fewer security vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, source security bugs, bugs, major microsoft products, microsoft products, security
 
 
 
 
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SNMP - Its not Secure Network Management Protocol

2008-03-04 08:12:43 by HASH0x8b500e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...secure and that 802.1x while not perfect, had many advantages in terms of security over SNMP. Than the kicker! The prospect told me I must be mistaken, after all SNMP stood for Secure Networking Management Protocol, didn't it? When I stopped laughing I asked him where he heard that. He told me that the NAC vendor he spoke to before me told...
 
Tags: snmp, snmp stands, snmp vulnerabilities, snmp capable equipment, snmp stood, simple snmp scan, potential nac customer, customer, leaky snmp
 
 
 
 
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SNMP - Its not Secure Network Management Protocol

2008-03-04 09:12:43 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...secure and that 802.1x while not perfect, had many advantages in terms of security over SNMP. Than the kicker! The prospect told me I must be mistaken, after all SNMP stood for Secure Networking Management Protocol, didn't it? When I stopped laughing I asked him where he heard that. He told me that the NAC vendor he spoke to before me told...
 
Tags: snmp, snmp stands, snmp vulnerabilities, snmp capable equipment, snmp stood, simple snmp scan, potential nac customer, customer, leaky snmp
 
 
 
 
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Feeling secure?

2008-04-04 21:18:18 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...secure as it is to actually secure their funds. And it's not just the funds that are in danger there - it's also the important private data that could be misused and exploited if exposed. However, is prevention through restriction rather than through technology really the answer? Does it make the user "feel secure and protected" , or just...
 
Tags: secure, transfer, urgently transfer, month regular transfer, valuable personal information, security, security questions, funds, local branch