Tools: Evaluation Criteria

[peter.amey at praxis-his.com (Peter Amey)]

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        From: sc-l-bounces at securecoding.org
[mailto:sc-l-bounces at securecoding.org] On Behalf Of McGovern, James F
(HTSC, IT)
        Sent: 22 May 2007 14:48
        To: SC-L at securecoding.org
        Subject: [SC-L] Tools: Evaluation Criteria
        
        
        We will shortly be starting an evaluation of tools to assist in
the secure coding practices initiative and have been wildly successful
in finding lots of consultants who can assist us in evaluating but
absolutely zero in terms of finding RFI/RFPs of others who have
travelled this path before us. Would especially love to understand
stretch goals that we should be looking for beyond simple stuff like
finding buffer overflows in C, OWASP checklists, etc.
        [PNA] 
         
        For some "stretch goals ", take a look at www.sparkada.com and
some of the published papers there, especially one on a project called
Tokeneer.
        (Caveat: I am commercially involved in the SPARK tools.
         
        In my travels, it "feels" as if folks are simply choosing tools
in this space because they are the market leader, incumbent vendor or
simply asking an industry analyst but none seem to have any "deep"
criteria. I guess at some level, choosing any tool will move the needle,
but investments really should be longer term.
        

        [PNA] 
        Agreed
         
         
        Peter
         
        
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