{"id":3400,"date":"2012-03-14T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T22:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2012-03-14T17:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T22:48:20","slug":"study-confirms-the-government-produces-the-buggiest-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3400","title":{"rendered":"Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The problem boils down to an oversight in the regulations for government software set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, says Wysopal. NIST\u2019s rules outline security standards for network security\u2013systems like firewalls and intrusion detection systems\u2013as well as endpoint security like antivirus programs. But only the latest round of its regulations included standards for coding secure applications, and even those didn\u2019t extend to most of the government\u2019s web applications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andygreenberg\/2012\/03\/13\/study-confirms-governments-produce-the-buggiest-software\/\">Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software &#8211; Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re zeroing in on the application layer, but that\u2019s something that\u2019s been pretty much ignored in the government space,\u201d says Wysopal. \u201cThey don\u2019t take a risk-based approach. They take a compliance-based approach. If it\u2019s not in the regulations, it doesn\u2019t get done.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem boils down to an oversight in the regulations for government software set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, says Wysopal. NIST\u2019s rules outline security standards for network security\u2013systems like firewalls and intrusion detection systems\u2013as well as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[541,101],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-nist","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}