Software Insecurity is Our Biggest Weakness

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 13, 2010 6:00 PM EDT
Kapersky Lab Threat Post ; By Dennis Fisher
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Speaking at the Secure360 Conference here, Marcus Ranum, CSO of Tenable Network Security, said that the country's reliance on commercial off-the-shelf software has made us more susceptible to attack, not to mention less innovative and creative. Why don't we have a government coding office? We have a government printing office," he said. "Why don't we have a strategic software reserve? Is this putting us at a greater or lesser risk? I'm not sure. But our own software is probably a greater threat to us than anything other people can do to us."

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