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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by cm2187 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @02:10AM (#16020795)
I am not sure throwing more people at the problem will help. Developers need to stop making rookie mistakes. Parameterize all queries, question input coming from the client. Pretty much every major data leak was the result of someone doing something stupid like setting the permissioning to public on a repository rather than not being staffed to do it right.
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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by kalleboo on Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:23AM (#16021106)
> Developers need to stop making rookie mistakes

And how do you get them to do that?

You hire security engineers to do training, code reviews, internal pentesting...

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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by walshemj on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:42AM (#16021352)
Experience is the way to "stop making rookie mistakes"
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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by cm2187 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:54AM (#16021193)
I am afraid this is just more lipstick on the pig of a fundamental problem of the industry: the combination of 1) anyone can call himself a programmer and incompetence is widespread and 2) every company trying to maximize the data collection in the hope that will be valuable.
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