[SC-L] Software process improvement produces secure software?

2007-08-07 Thread Francisco Nunes
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

Re: [SC-L] Software process improvement produces secure software?

2007-08-07 Thread Goertzel, Karen
I've always had a question about this as well; specifically, what is really meant by adding security to a CMM? I've always felt that the level at which the software (or system) process is defined by a CMM is too high and too abstract for the addition of security activities to be particularly

Re: [SC-L] Software process improvement produces secure software?

2007-08-07 Thread Julie Ryan
A simple way to understand why implementing software development process improvement will not necessarily produce secure software is to read the Common Criteria. yes, I know that it's opaque and hard to understand, but once you have gone through the process of writing a Protection Profile for