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Software Security Is Hard But Not impossible
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planetlevel
planetlevel,
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8/18/2015 | 9:16:27 AM
Wrong on the facts, wrong on the impact
I'll be posting a more detailed response shortly, but this article seriously mischaracterizes modern IAST.  IAST takes the best of static, dynamic, and runtime technqiues and delivers them via an agent that runs with the full context of the application.

I understand a legacy tool vendor attempting to criticize a newer better technology to try to maintain market share. It's very easy to verify that IAST performs considerably better in both vulnerability coverage and accuracy (see the OWASP Benchmark Project).

But the implication that static analysis (SAST) is better for experts is ridiculous. I know dozens of companies that have large teams of people whose entire job is to triage false positives. We need that expertise focused on threat modeling, security architecture, and implementing defenses.... not "onboarding" and triage.
macker490
macker490,
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8/17/2015 | 7:32:01 AM
First,-- you have to actually want security
look at the new EMV cards

they include a magnetic strip.   the magenetic strip is the element responsible for the card hacking debauch that has disgraced PCI for the past several years

but they don't get rid of it.  because security is secondary: ease of used is first priority .   so, the debauch will continue .


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