Re: [SC-L] SearchSecurity: Dynamism

2015-08-30 Thread Alfonso De Gregorio
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Johan Peeters y...@johanpeeters.com wrote:
 nice one, Gary. Finally something positive about agile and DevOps. A
 trick that you may have missed is immutable servers, see Docker and
 friends. They will be a leap forward for server security when they hit
 the mainstream.

Immutable servers are nice -- let's deploy them. Yet, in an execution
environment where code is data and data is code, high assurance
software will also require control-flow integrity in the face of
malicious input. Or, what we would be left with are weird machines
instantiated from disposable images.

-- Alfonso
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Re: [SC-L] SearchSecurity: Dynamism

2015-08-28 Thread Johan Peeters
nice one, Gary. Finally something positive about agile and DevOps. A
trick that you may have missed is immutable servers, see Docker and
friends. They will be a leap forward for server security when they hit
the mainstream.
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[SC-L] SearchSecurity: Dynamism

2015-08-20 Thread Gary McGraw
hi sc-l,

What is the relationship between dynamic languages and dynamic methodologies?  
What is the impact on software security?

This article provides a gentle introduction: http://bit.ly/gem-dynamic

Feedback welcome.  Pass it on.

gem

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