The United States Department of Homeland Security unveiled a detailed guide to help software developers and vendors avoid common security errors in their applications.
Homeland Security’s Cyber-Security Division worked with the security training and research organization SANS Institute and the non-profit technology research company Mitre to create a list of common software vulnerabilities along with a scoring system to prioritize flaws, a risk analysis framework to evaluate the seriousness of the flaws and a list of top 25 dangerous software errors. The guide wasreleased June 27 and is intended to help organizations hold their developers and vendors accountable for problems in the application.
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