SANS Software Security Institute announced

[ken at krvw.com (Kenneth Van Wyk)]

FYI, the folks at SANS have announced the launch of their Software  
Security Institute (see http://www.sans-ssi.org/ for details).

Their web site cites the following 6 goals:

     * Allow employers to rate their programmers on security skills  
so they can be confident that every project has at least one  
"security master" and all of their programmers understand the common  
errors and how to avoid them.
     * Provide a means for buyers of software and systems vendors to  
measure the secure programming skills of the people who work for the  
supplier.
     * Allow programmers to identify their gaps in secure programming  
knowledge in the language they use and target education to fill those  
gaps.
     * Allow employers to evaluate job candidates and potential  
consultants on their secure programming skills and knowledge.
     * Provide incentive for universities to include secure coding in  
required computer science, engineering, and programming courses.
     * Provide reporting to allow individuals and organizations to  
compare their skills against others in their industry, with similar  
education or experience or in similar regions around the world.

Cheers,

Ken
-----
Kenneth R. van Wyk
SC-L Moderator
KRvW Associates, LLC
http://www.KRvW.com




-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 2454 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://krvw.com/pipermail/sc-l/attachments/20070330/a9981c1f/attachment.bin