[SC-L] SANS Software Security Institute announced

2007-03-30 Thread Kenneth Van Wyk
FYI, the folks at SANS have announced the launch of their Software Security Institute (see http://www.sans-ssi.org/ for details). Their web site cites the following 6 goals: * Allow employers to rate their programmers on security skills so they can be confident that every project has at

Re: [SC-L] Darkreading: compliance

2007-03-30 Thread ljknews
At 9:29 AM -0400 3/30/07, Benjamin Tomhave wrote: SOX has been a complete waste, imo. First, the majority of it was already covered in existing law. Second, it really has nothing to do with security from a practical standpoint. The only purpose SOX has served is to give auditors another