Wednesday, October 31, 2007

We need InfoSec incident data like NASA got from pilots

You may or may not have seen the coverage lately about a survey NASA did of airline pilots about the frequency of close calls in airline safety. There has been a bit of scuffle about whether to release the data publicly because of fears it might erode consumer confidence in airline safety....

Today news reports are out that NASA will be publicly releasing the data. I don't have details on the study yet. It will be interesting to compare the data from this survey, that hopefully had a scientific basis, to InfoSec surveys such as the CSI/FBI which we've mostly all come to hate because of its poor methodology, etc.

Jeremiah posted the results of his latest web application security survey and the results aren't great.... well, the state of security isn't great anyway. Might be nice to put together a broader survey to see how many incidents we're really having out there.

2 comments:

Peter said...

I agree. Except the actual data is likely to be depressing in the extreme.

Anonymous said...

And we also need good vulnerability database (with reliable and good data). -- Not like nvd/cve...