New NSA-funded programming language could close long-standing security holes

  • 17 September 2014
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By David Geer
 | Sep 16, 2014
 
According to Steve McConnell, author of “Code Complete”, software development projects that reach 512,000 lines of code or more can see four to 100 coding errors per thousand lines of code. Coding errors create the software vulnerabilities that criminal hackers attack in order to enter and pillage the enterprise. Anything that can help to prevent those holes should be of interest to CISOs and their teams
 
One example is the NSA-funded, research-based Wyvern programming language from Carnegie-Mellon University. Wyvern seeks to limit coding errors by various means including enabling the use of five different programming languages inside the host language in a secure manner, according to Jonathan Aldrich, associate professor, the Institute for Software Research in the School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University. Aldrich is the research group leader for the group behind the Wyvern project.
 


 
 
InforWorld/ full article here/ http://www.infoworld.com/article/2683903/application-development/new-nsa-funded-programming-language-could-close-long-standing-security-holes.html

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