Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Communication Breakdown

Besides being a fantastic song from one of my all time favorite English rock bands, Led Zeppelin, today's blog title describes one of the things I have seen around Application Security and why stuff slips through the crack. Nothing surprises me more than to see a developer make assumptions about something and then come to the realization just before release that the stuff just doesn't work... Keep in mind, this 'just before release' should never occur if AppSec is plugged into the SDLC properly, but when an AppSec program is in its infancy, this is just one of many things to overcome.

Communication (or lack of) seems to be a problem in a lot of areas in business. If we would all just open up a bit and make sure we understand what is being told to us or communicate more clearly, ourselves, many of these problems would not exist in the first place.

It just amazes me that something so simple could be one of the biggest problems in industry today.

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