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Stop saying input validation

So it seems like almost everywhere you turn for advice about securing programs or resolving known security problems leads you to a ‘security guy’ telling you something along the lines of ‘well, you have to validate your inputs to prevent these kinds of issues’. Perhaps I’ve heard it too many times or perhaps I’m just [...]

SDLC on the shoulders of giants

Software security veterans have all certainly thought about the idea of ‘securing the SDLC’… I can tell because every consulting firm’s collateral that I’ve seen in the past year has a new bullet under their ‘services’ section referring to something like ‘Secure development process integration’ or ‘Secure SDLC services’. That being said, let’s talk about [...]

Penetration Testing

If I were to say penetration testing, what would you expect? After conversations with lots of colleagues and friends it’s become fairly clear to me that the term is massively overloaded. It actually got me thinking about the evolution of pen-testing over the last several years. And I’m not going to preach from the you-need-design-and-code-review-too [...]