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Third parties introduce many deficiencies exploited by attackers
According to Trustwave's 2010 Global Security Report, the most notable trend of 2009 was the continued existence of attack vectors despite the security industry’s awareness of the associated vulnerabilities for a decade or more. Organizations large and small were found to be moving forward with plans to implement new technology, while leaving basic security threats overlooked in legacy environments and IT systems.
The report analyzes data gathered from nearly 1900 penetration tests and more than 200 security incident and compromise investigations throughout 2009 and provides a business and technical impact analysis. The report was compiled by SpiderLabs, the advanced security team at Trustwave responsible for incident response and forensics, penetration testing, application security and security research.
A recent article in USA Today agrees with these findings, stating, “The vast majority of organizations routinely fail to take simple defensive measures, such as shoring up comm... [ more ]
Microsoft shares its SDL tools and expertise with the developer community
According to Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, in the last six months of 2009, 81% of reported vulnerabilities were in application software products. Increasingly crime-motivated cyber threats and the competitive marketplace means that application developers are being challenged to engineer more secure products. Developers want to do the right thing but have been put off by difficulties in acquiring specialist security expertise and assumptions of huge additional cost and resource.
The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), a security assurance process designed to reduce the number and severity of security vulnerabilities in software, was developed by Microsoft and managed by the Trustworthy Computing group, became mandatory for all Microsoft products in 2004.
Based on a belief that more secure code benefits everyone, Microsoft is committed to sharing its SDL tools, expertise and guidance with the broader developer community. To date more than 48,000 developers have downlo... [ more ]
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Third parties introduce many deficiencies exploited by attackers
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