Tag Archives: Common Criteria
Heartbleed, Open Source, and Internet Security
May 19, 2014 – 6:00 am
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On page A5 of the April 24, 2014 issue of The Wall Street Journal, there is a full page “Paid Advertisement” with the title “Internet Security and Heartbleed.” The ad, which is in the form of a letter from Klaus Brandstätter, CEO of software company HOB, touts HOB-SSL as a replacement for…
Are Mainframes Really More Secure?
September 17, 2012 – 6:00 am
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Some two decades ago, I wrote a column in the Fall 1993 edition of the long-since departed magazine, Securities Industry Management, with the title “Two Cheers for Mainframes—The future may lie in distributed technology, but don’t junk your old iron just yet.” I made statements in the…
The Quest for Secure and Resilient Software
July 19, 2010 – 6:00 am
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Secure and Resilient Software Development (CRC Press, 2010) by Mark Merkow and Laksh Raghavan is a really good book. It addresses a key security area that is generally given short shrift, even though purportedly more than 70 percent of breaches result from attacks on the application layer. The…