[SC-L] Computerworld: Opinion - Making apps secure is hard work

2010-08-12 Thread Kenneth Van Wyk
I figured this was relevant here, so here's a link to my August column for Computerworld. Excerpt: 'What's that you say? All the app vetting you've been doing to date consists only of verifying that the apps play by the rules? That is, that they use only published APIs and such? Well, then,

Re: [SC-L] Computerworld: Opinion - Making apps secure is hard work

2010-08-12 Thread Gunnar Peterson
Hi Ken, You raise some important points. Most infosec is approached as a set of controls, but access control only takes you so far in the face of malice. I like this quote from G.K. Chesterton The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it