Re: [SC-L] PCI: Boon or bust for software security?

2008-03-04 Thread Andy Murren
Overall I concur with Bruce on this. PCI has too broad of a constituent base to cover to be truly effective. Some fixes were added after the TJX breach, but look at how much TJX paid versus how much the laid aside to pay. I am betting that the TJX lawyers produced documents showing that they we

[SC-L] Secure development after release

2008-03-04 Thread Andy Murren
Once an application is released or put into production, what are organizations doing to keep the applications secure? As new vulnerabilities and classes of exploits are released, how is that information being fed back to developers so they can update/patch in the software. At the network most org

Re: [SC-L] PCI: Boon or bust for software security?

2008-03-04 Thread Benjamin Tomhave
Worse than that, I think that until businesses universally understand the value of secure coding practices, they will resist the up-front cost to take on such a transformational program. SOX vs PCI would make for a good case study. SOX is very high level and generic, which led to much confusion an