Webantix

I know that for most people reading that headline are shouting already of course there has to be!!

Hey, if there was no security industry myself and a lot of my friends will be out of work. The reason why I have raised the question is not because I think it is pointless trying to secure systems that will always be insecure. It’s because why are systems insecure in the first place.

From as soon as people found ways of controlling software in ways that the software was not designed to used in, the companies that created the software should have realised this and started to create software properly. I wanted to type create secure software then but that is wrong. All software should be programmed correctly not, secure or not secure. Security should be built in and be just as common as a menu button working when you click on it.

I know the reasons this does not happen and it is the reason the world goes round. Money. People will only buy a new product that looks different does different things. So if a vendor creates secure software which will take longer to bring to market, they will lose out on sales. And this is extended with the fact that people still do not see being secure as important as new “Features”.

So do we have a chicken and egg issue here. What is going to come first the want from customers or the want from companies. Well I guess in my life time I will never know as I cannot see customers paying more for something they cannot see or touch. “Secure Software” looks and acts to the user exactly the same as bug filled insecure software. And if the customer does not want it why would companies spend more money on a product that they can sell without adding it.

I think this will only start to change when the Media start really reporting on how bad insecure software is. It seems at the moment that the whole world is spiralling into recession caused by the scaremongering of the 24/7 news networks. Why can they not use this scaremongering for good, report on things that they can help change for the better rather than worse.