Article summarizing the USA National Cyber Security Summit, which came up with a recommendation for more secure code and coding practices. This will involve a massive effort, requiring inter alia extensive retraining for those software developers who are already in the production stream. Similarly, current curricula must be revamped to give additional emphasis to responsible development with security in the main focus.
There is a lot more disagreement on the 'how' of this, and what the most effective model should be, but the output from this conference would not go amiss as the input to future curriculum development in software engineering [where, I must hasten to point out, I cannot claim even the thin veneer of expertise I profess in terms of networking].
Posted by jho at December 16, 2003 02:32 PM