Re:The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken
by sk5t on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:06PM
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The point is that it still costs more, on average, to hire the person who understands how to avoid SQL injection by using the right tools/syntax. The person who only understands string concatenation and basic SQL will always be available to hire.
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Re:The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken
by cm2187 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:01AM
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And again you are assuming that these vulnerabilities are introduced by cheap untrained or foreign programmers. Massive silicon valley firms who pay top market rates do the same mistakes. I am sure there is a correlation between pay level and understanding of security but we are very far from a position where if you hire a team of developper, a business can have any confidence that they won't do something dumb like md5 a password, concatenate a string in a SQL qry, rely on user supplied array length in an unmanaged language, not protect themselves against CSRF (I suspect 50% of professional web dev still don't even know what it is!), etc.
Re:The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken
by sk5t on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:26AM
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> I am sure there is a correlation between pay level and understanding of security
Good, then maybe you can see a path forward to stop arguing the opposite?
Yes, it is possible to pay a lot for a little. Developed country, less developed country, wherever. It remains, nevertheless, relatively less expensive to hire an inexperienced coder than it is to hire an experienced one, who has a greater likelihood of being security-conscious. But no formal mechanism prevents the inexperienced coder from finding work cranking out unreviewed programs.