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Why Can’t Johnny Program Securely?

Presentation
In this presentation, given at InfoSec World 2014 in April 2014, Robert Seacord discusses the challenges of coding software securely and how standards can help.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

This presentation discusses the education and assessment of programmers in major software markets, the difficulty of programming, the limitation of analysis and testing, the use and application of secure coding standards, and conformance testing using SCALe (Source Code Analysis Laboratory).