Wednesday, 11 November 2009
BSIMM Europe
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BSIMM made it across the Atlantic! Over the last few months, I've traveled with Gary McGraw, Brian Chess, Florence Mottay, and Dave Harper through Europe to companies like Nokia, SWIFT, Standard Life, Telecom Italia, and Thomson Reuters to expand the original BSIMM study with data from Europe. While we were expecting that European companies are tackling software security completely different, we were surprised to find out that the studied European companies are doing software security not terribly different from the original nine US companies in the BSIMM study. European companies tend to focus more on Compliance and Policy, Penetration Testing, and Software Environment while Training and Security Testing and assurance activities (like Code Review) seem to be behind. Our full analysis is here
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