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The OCC and Application Security: Vindication at Last

– On May 8, 2008, the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury) issued Bulletin 2008-16, which you can find here. As the OCC states, there have been prior mentions of application security by the FFIEC (of which OCC is a member), NIST and others.…

Metrics Revisited – Application Security Metrics

– I have recently been giving some thought to, and doing some research into, application security metrics, and I have determined, quite simply, that there aren’t any good ones. “How ridiculous!” you say, “We have two dozen application security metrics, which we report in…

Are We Less Secure Now Than Before?

– The information security professional faces a curious dichotomy in this field. Ask a bunch of security pros and many will tell you a main reason they enjoy it is that there is always something new happening. But that is often just a euphemism - “new” often means a growing threat…