Re: Vulnerabilites in new laws on computer hacking
nuqneH,
Actually, both are quite useless and non-informative.
(should i explain?)
"fixing the holes" is, for my estimation, hardly more than 10% of
computer security process. Thanks to stupid hollywood movies,
customers are almost completely unaware of that :-(
They still think a computer security expert is a person who performs
attacks and provides a report if he succeeds.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:43:49AM -0500, Seth Breidbart wrote:
> "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > If you're trying to understand the security properties of a
> > system by breaking into it, you not producing valuable
> > reports, anyhow. All you are doing is telling them where
> > to put the next band-aid.
>
> I know of too many (more than none is too many) examples where a
> company went to a Big Consulting Firm and asked for a report on the
> security of their systems. Many tens of kilobucks later, they got a
> fancy bound report that said "we couldn't break in" followed by 200
> pages of ass-covering by the consulting firm. Then they went to a
> real security expert, who spent one day attacking their system and
> gave them a report saying "here are the five easiest ways I found to
> break into your system. Fix them and call me back."
>
> You might not consider that valuable; but how do you consider the
> expensive fancy bound completely worthless report?
>
> Seth