On "application security"

["Gary McGraw" <gem () cigital com>]

Read this you guys.  This paper expands a bit on the distinction I like
to draw between application security and software security.

http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/software-security-gem.pdf

Needless to say, I worry about what happens when the current crop of
"application security" vendors looks at actual code.

gem

p.s. Not that black box testing is *completely* useless.
p.p.s. Actual citation: 
Gary McGraw (2002) Building Secure Software: Better than Protecting Bad
Software. IEEE Software, Volume 19, Number 6, pages 57-59.
(Point/Counterpoint with Greg Hoglund.)

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