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posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 03 2017, @01:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-usually-blame-the-humans dept.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a report last month, Safer, Less Vulnerable Software Is the Goal of New NIST Computer Publication:

We can create software with 100 times fewer vulnerabilities than we do today, according to computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). To get there, they recommend that coders adopt the approaches they have compiled in a new publication.

The 60-page document, NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8151: Dramatically Reducing Software Vulnerabilities, is a collection of the newest strategies gathered from across industry and other sources for reducing bugs in software. While the report is officially a response to a request for methods from the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, NIST computer scientist Paul E. Black says its contents will help any organization that seeks to author high-quality, low-defect computer code.

"We want coders to know about it," said Black, one of the publication's coauthors. "We concentrated on including novel ideas that they may not have heard about already."

Black and his NIST colleagues compiled these ideas while working with software assurance experts from many private companies in the computer industry as well as several government agencies that generate a good deal of code, including the Department of Defense and NASA. The resulting document reflects their cumulative input and experience.

The report recommends five main approaches as described in lay terms in this infographic.

The report is available at: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2016/NIST.IR.8151.pdf


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 03 2017, @11:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 03 2017, @11:59AM (#448860)

    I will not take personal responsibility for you or anyone other than myself.

    I have not hurt systems or generations of systems, because I am not a traitor. Those who sell off everyone for a little financial gain deserve to be punished, as only they benefited from it.

    You can count on me to NOT take personal responsibility for other people. Each one is different, and the title of your post is a brainwashing attempt so people would take "personal responsibility" for everything, even for those whose treasonous tendencies are not just about financial gain.