Pop security quiz: What’s the most secure way to store a secret? a) Encrypt it with a strong symmetric cryptographic algorithm such as AES, using a 256-bit key. b) Encrypt it with a strong asymmetric cryptographic algorithm such as RSA, using a 4096-bit key.
Hi everyone, Shawn Hernan here. Being a security guy is incredibly rewarding because you get to look at virtually any part of a product, from kernel drivers to web services to user education to sales and servicing.
Adam Shostack here. I said recently that I wanted to talk more about what I do. The core of what I do is help Microsoft’s product teams analyze the security of their designs by threat modeling.
“You can’t test quality in.” It’s a truism coined long ago and an accepted fact of software development. Yet, for security, testing is arguably the most talked about aspect of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). When we get security wrong, the first criticism we almost always hear is, “Didn’t you guys test this thing?
How many of you have heard “many eyes make all bugs shallow”? My guess is that many of you have and that it may have been in conjunction with an argument supporting why Linux and Open Source products have better security. For example, Red Hat publishes a document at www.redhat.com/whitepapers/services/Open_Source_Security5.
