Dana Epp's ramblings at the Sanctuary: Designing for Failure


« Quote of the Day: You deserve to be Hacked \| Main \| When the winter cold takes a turn for the worse » December 15, 2004 Designing for Failure When designing secure systems, a critical component is understanding failure code paths. This is something woefully neglected in software systems of today, which is really to bad. Today I read an interesting interview with Bruce Lindsay (an IBM fellow who is one of the guys behind the original RDBMS concept) about designing for failure. Although its riddled with thoughts on databases, the principles about designing for failure are just as applicable in secure systems. Have a read. A very interesting article. Posted by SilverStr at December 15, 2004 02:43 PM \| TrackBack		My 5 Favorite Books Writing Secure Code Secure Programming Cookbook Security Engineering Secure Coding Principles & Practice Inside the Security Mind My 5 Favorite Papers Smashing the Stack Penetration Studies Covert Channel Analysis of Trusted Systems DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria NSA Security Recommendation Guides Archives January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 GeoURL

December 15, 2004

Designing for Failure