Dear list members. In june 2007, I had an interesting conversation with Mr. Will Hayes from SEI during the Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality. It was a great experience and I am very grateful for this.
During our conversation, I made a question to Mr. Hayes similar to this: "Is it possible that only software development process improvements can produce secure software?" The scenario was only based on CMMI without security interference. His answer to this question was "YES". My answer was "I DO NOT THINK SO". His answer made me confuse and I had no arguments, mainly, because my professional experience in software process does not compare to Mr. Haye's experience. Unfortunately, I also haven't found any statistics which could answer this question. Please, if there is one, let me know! So, how about you, list members? What are your answers to the question above? I will try to organize your answers and present the final result. Thank you. Yours faithfully, Francisco José Barreto Nunes. Alertas do Yahoo! Mail em seu celular. Saiba mais em http://br.mobile.yahoo.com/mailalertas/ _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. _______________________________________________