The Missing Generation

Universities need to wake up to the realities of the web and produce security-conscious IT graduates.

A recent, and sadly not atypical, security audit performed by my team went like this. The brief was to check out a new web portal. The portal was to make use of the latest technologies, from Ajax to Ruby on Rails, sitting on well-specified hardware and the latest, fully patched, enterprise version of the operating system. The application servers sat behind the newest firewalls, equipped with state-of-the-art application-layer protection. Sure enough, running the automated tools gave this setup a pretty clean bill of health. What they tend not to be so good at checking is the fresh ...
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