Jumat, 21 November 2008

Tips for PSIRTs

If your company sells software, you probably need to have a Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT). The PSIRT should act as the single point of contact for any user of your product to report and coordinate security problems with your software product.

Examples of PSIRTs include:


I think you can tell how serious a company takes security by the way they promote their PSIRT, obscure its existence, or not even operate one. Try comparing Oracle to Cisco, for example.

If you're looking to start a PSIRT, Chad Dougherty's Recommendations to vendors for communicating product security information post on the CERT blog is a great start.


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