Using CIS Controls To Stop Your Network From Falling in With the Wrong Crowd

Earlier this month Kyle Flaherty wrote a post on the Rapid7 Community Blog about how Rapid7 came out on top for coverage of the Center for Internet Security CIS Top 20 Security Controls. In light of recent DDoS events Id like to take a little time to discuss at a high level what the controls are,...

Gary McGraw on BSIMM7 and Secure Software Development

Mike Mimoso talks to Cigital CTO and software security pioneer Gary McGraw about the latest results pulled from the Building Security In Maturity Model BSIMM. The framework measures the secure development activities of some of the world’s largest software companies and enterprises and can be used...

Kaspersky Lab Bug Bounty Program Launches

LAS VEGAS – Kaspersky Lab today at Black Hat USA 2016 announced the launch of a public bug bounty, one of the few offered by a software vendor in the computer security industry. The bounty begins tomorrow on the HackerOne platform, and the first phase will run for six months. The company said tha...

Gary McGraw on Software Security and BSIMM6

Mike Mimoso talks to Cigital’s Gary McGraw about software security and analysis from the sixth version of the Building Security in Maturity Model report. Download: garymcgraw102715.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Gary McGraw on the BSIMM4 and How to Avoid Being the Slowest Zebra

Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the release of the BSIMM4 data, how software security programs have matured in the last four years and how the government has become distracted by cyberwar and is ignoring software security, to its detriment. Download: digitalunderground105...

White House Launches Electric Industry Security Maturity Model Program

The White House has launched a new initiative designed to help companies in the electric power industry measure the maturity of their security programs against a new maturity model. The program is being run in tandem with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Energy and is meant t...

Software [In]security: Nine Things Everybody Does: Software Security Activities from the BSIMM

This article originally appeared on InformIT.com as part of Gary McGraw’s Software InSecurity series. Using the Software Security Framework SSF introduced in October, we interviewed nine executives running top software security programs in order to gather real data from real programs.Our goal is ...