In my humble opinion the OWASP
Appsensor<http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_AppSensor_Project>is a
much better start at a useful set of metrics. (At least for AppSec)

--
Dennis Groves, MSc



On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Steve Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/02/2011 15:58, Dave Aitel wrote:
>> So I was at a meeting last week, and one of the high ranking members
>> said something like this, which I'm sure you've heard before:
>>
>> Member: We've improved our communications by setting up this great
>> website! It allows us to communicate all our super-important and
>> highly confidential information. We had a marketing team put it
>> together so it looks really professional and nice and is easy to use.
>> We think this will really help our mission. Oh, and we had a friend of
>> a friend do a quick free security scan for us, so it's secure too.
>>
>> So here's my simple and 100% accurate metric: If you spent more on
>> your GUI than on your security, you don't have a secure application.
>> Start preparing for the PR fallout of your website getting hacked now.
>
> I think you're using an extreme example there, but there's definitely a
> correlation between the relative amount of money spent on security and
> the overall cost of a solution.
>
> I prefer questions like "Is your source code control based on copying
> folders on a file server and sticking _001, _002 on the end?" and "When
> did you stop beating your developers?" as gauges of how bad it's going
> to be.
>
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