http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=112289 By Tom Jowitt Techworld 06 March 2009 A panel of security experts agreed that security needs to thought of a lot earlier in the software development lifecycle, and that the IT industry needs to start shipping "hardened" products, especially with the advent of the cloud and visualisation making the location of sensitive data even more difficult to locate. Speaking at Alcatel-Lucent's Dynamic Enterprise forum in Paris this week, a panel of experts including Wyatt Starnes, the founder and CEO of verification provider SignaCert, discussed how there are now thousands of applications out there, and that the traditional model of securing them via third party or add-on security packages, is now outdated. Starnes was previously the founder and CEO Tripwire, and is a cofounder of RAINS (Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security). Also speaking on the panel was Carlos Solari, previously a senior executive at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as well Chief Information Officer for the Executive Office of the President (the White House). He is now VP of Security Solution and Strategy at Alcatel-Lucent. "Clearly, the current approaches are not scalable to Web 2.0," said Solari. "With virtualisation, where does your data reside? We need to rethink the problem. After market, or bolt-on security technology is a failed model, as things are increasingly residing in the cloud now. A new approach is needed." [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Tue Mar 10 2009 - 05:11:24 PDT
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