SDLC Archive

Is the Software Industry Incompetent?


If you ever wondered what a blonde, a brunette, lemon juice and a bank robber had to do with software development and the psychology of programming you have to watch Ron Burk’s presentation…

Cerrudo’s talk prompts Microsoft to admit serious flaw on Windows


It’s Sunday evening and I have spent the last hour going through the slides of Cesar Cerrudo’s talk at HiTBSecConf 2008 that took place this week in Dubai. I know it’s sad, but the title of this blog is “passionate about information security”, isn’t it? Let me give you a bit of background before going [...]

Integrating ISO 17799 into your Software Development Lifecycle


I open the new section Papers & Presentations of this blog posting my latest article published on INSECURE Magazine: “Integrating ISO 17799 into your Software Development Lifecycle”. In this paper, published on the 11th issue of INSECURE Magazine (May 2007), I explain how information security controls can be integrated in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) [...]