The HOST program is about building open source security products, evangelizing open source security, helping with government certifications, etc. It's not fundamentally about secure coding or software assurance.
--Jeremy On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Steven M. Christey > <co...@linus.mitre.org> wrote: >> >> While I'd like to see Black Hat add some more defensive-minded tracks, I >> just realized that this desire might a symptom of a larger problem: there >> aren't really any large-scale conferences dedicated to defense / software >> assurance. (The OWASP conferences are heavily web-focused; > I believe OWASP is moving towards Application Security in general. At > the chapter meetings I attend, we were told the acronym is probably > going to be changed to "Open Web and Application Security Project". > >> Dept. of Homeland Security has its software assurance forum and working >> groups, but those are relatively small.) > Homeland Security also has the HOST program, which partners with > industry, http://www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/host/. I'm just mentioning it > because its seems to be a bit more than a [low volume] forum. > >> If somebody built it, would anybody come? > If the prices is right ;) > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ 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. Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates _______________________________________________
