[Oracle] Management: Programmers lack security awareness

Oracle's security chief says there are too many software vulnerabilities in the software industry that "if a planet is built by software developers, no one wants to live there." ”

Oracle Security Long Mary Ann Davidson the muzzle of the software industry, she said, "Most software engineers do not consider security and stability issues at all." "She thinks developers are generally keeping an" afterthought "mentality, making the market worth as much as $59 billion worth a relative cost.

"What happens if a bridge engineer uses the mindset of a software developer to bypass it?" She asked, "Will there be a blue death signal on the bridge at half the freeway?" ”

Davidson, speaking at the WWW 2006 Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, said so. To deal with the effects of these unsafe software, he says, the industry has come to a tipping point. "Many executives complain that the things they buy with software vendors are simply not qualified in quality," he said. "Davidson said.

"I recently conducted a survey informally with the security chief at the CSO Council convention, and many people say that industry really needs some regulations to be standard." "she said.

But she also pointed out that if there is a law to the standard, the industry has to blame itself. "Industry doesn't want to be standard, but if you don't want this day to come, you have to manage yourself." ”