Re: [SC-L] How Can You Tell It Is Written Securely?

2008-12-01 Thread Stephen Craig Evans
Hi Mark, What I have seen is that the organization develops security standards/guidelines and secure coding guidelines tailored to the org. If the org is big enough to have its own security team, then they do it; if not, then they hire consultants to do it. It's not too difficult to find out

Re: [SC-L] How Can You Tell It Is Written Securely?

2008-12-01 Thread ljknews
At 9:03 PM -0500 11/26/08, Mark Rockman wrote: OK. So you decide to outsource your programming assignment to Asia and demand that they deliver code that is so locked down that it cannot misbehave. How can you tell that what they deliver is truly locked down? Will you wait until it gets hacked?

Re: [SC-L] How Can You Tell It Is Written Securely?

2008-11-27 Thread Stephen Craig Evans
... and demand that they deliver code that is so locked down that it cannot misbehave. Your premise is so incorrect that I advise that if you are truly interested in answering your questions (as opposed to a purely academic or other exercise), then you should hire a security specialist to help

Re: [SC-L] How Can You Tell It Is Written Securely?

2008-11-27 Thread Jim Manico
OK. So you decide to outsource your programming assignment to Asia and demand that they deliver code that is so locked down that it cannot misbehave. How can you tell that what they deliver is truly locked down? Will you wait until it gets hacked? What simple yet thorough inspection process