Re: [SC-L] Root Canal Treatment vs Source Code Review

2008-07-01 Thread ljknews
At 10:43 PM -0400 6/30/08, Mary and Glenn Everhart wrote: > There is another reason I have seen quite often: you can't readily ask > the designer of > the code what it does when he is dead, or when he has left the company > (esp. if he works for a competitor). When I participated (as author) in

Re: [SC-L] InternetNews Realtime IT News - Merchants Cope With PCI Compliance

2008-07-01 Thread Stephen Craig Evans
Hi Michael, > So, unfortunately for the WAF vendors, people can just use a static source > code analysis tool or a web application vulnerability scanner instead of > purchasing and deploying a WAF. I don't know much about PCI 6.6 (yet), but don't the organizations have to mitigate the vulnerabili

Re: [SC-L] Root Canal Treatment vs Source Code Review

2008-07-01 Thread Mary and Glenn Everhart
Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Under the subject "InternetNews Realtime IT News - Merchants Cope With PCI > Compliance", Kenneth Van Wyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] In talking with my customers over the past several months, I always > find it interesting that the vast majority would sooner have

Re: [SC-L] InternetNews Realtime IT News - Merchants Cope With PCI Compliance

2008-07-01 Thread Arian J. Evans
Gunnar -- agreed. And for all the "fake security" in the name of PCI going on right now out there -- let's also keep in mind that it is completely valid and legitimate to attempt to operationalize software security. We scoff because to date it hasn't been done well (at all). That is just as much a