I had just a quick query for everyone out there, with an attached thought. How many security and/or secure coding professionals are prevalently involved with the SXSW conference this week? I know, I know... it's a big party for developers - particularly the Web 2.0 clique - but I'm just curious.
Here's why: I'm increasingly frustrated by the disconnect between business/dev and security. I don't feel like we're being largely successful in getting the business and developers to include security as part of their standard operating procedures. Developers are still oftentimes lazy and sloppy, creating XSS and CSRF and SQL injection holes. I then look at SXSW from afar and think: a) shouldn't I be there evangelizing security? and, b) shouldn't a major thread to all these conferences be about how security is integrating with dev processes and practices, making it better? Maybe I'm just too idealist. I'm curious what everyone else thinks. cheers, -ben -- Benjamin Tomhave, MS, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/btomhave Blog: http://www.secureconsulting.net/ Photos: http://photos.secureconsulting.net/ Web: http://falcon.secureconsulting.net/ "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." Edward P. Tryon _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________
