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Re: The biggest thing affecting software security? People, apparently.

Subject: Re: The biggest thing affecting software security? People, apparently.
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:26:27 -0400
Nick Murison wrote:

Hi all,

www.threatsandcountermeasures.com just closed their poll on what people
thought was the biggest thing affecting software security.  The results were:

People:     80.3%
Process:    18.2%
Technology:  1.5%

Results also available from www.threatsandcountermeasures.com/PastPolls.aspx.

If this is the case, then why is there such a huge financial investment in
security technology? Is the human factor expected to magically improves once
we've got the "right" technology?


No, but people are the hardest thing to patch. You can inform them, you can work with them, you can even threaten them to follow good security practices but someone always constitutes for the weakest link in the chain.

Steve

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