Re: [SC-L] IT industry creates secure coding advocacy group

2007-11-01 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
I publicly support Gunnar's assertion that folks in large enterprises need to get together as a collective to drive secure coding practices. If you know of others, please do not hesitate to have them connect to me via LinkedIn (I am bad with managing contact information) and I will most certainly

[SC-L] Mainframe Security

2007-11-01 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
I was thinking that there is an opportunity for us otherwise lazy enterprisey types to do our part in order to promote secure coding in an open source way. Small vendors tend to be filled with lots of folks that know C, Java and .NET but may not have anyone who knows COBOL. Minimally, they

Re: [SC-L] Mainframe Security

2007-11-01 Thread Johan Peeters
I think this could do a great service to the community. Recently I was hired by a major financial institution as a lead developer. They said they needed me for some Java applications, but it turns out that the majority of code is in COBOL. As I have never before been anywhere near COBOL, this

Re: [SC-L] Mainframe Security

2007-11-01 Thread ljknews
At 9:16 PM +0100 11/1/07, Johan Peeters wrote: I think this could do a great service to the community. Recently I was hired by a major financial institution as a lead developer. They said they needed me for some Java applications, but it turns out that the majority of code is in COBOL. As I