IEEE promotes security skills to software developers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has formed a new advisory group with the private sector that aims to advise software developers on how to ensure that their applications are secure.
The IEEE has linked with ten IT and security organisations - including Google, Twitter, Cigital and RSA - to form the IEEE Centre for Secure Design (CSD). The CSD's first step has been to issue an advisory report for software developers - and allied staff - on how they can make their applications more secure.
The report - entitled `Avoiding the Top Ten Software Security Design Flaws' - is based on real-world data collated by the CSD's member organisations. "We came up with the idea of the CSD back in April of this year at a security workshop and have developed the report to act as guidance for software developers on how to code their applications with security in mind," said Jim DelGrosso, a principal consultant with one of the CSD's founders, Cigital.
