internetnews.com: A New Open Source Approach to Weakness

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 1, 2006

“More than 270 years ago, Carolus Linnaeus in his book
Systema Naturae, attempted to categorize all biology on
the Earth into a series of kingdoms. Web application security
vendor Fortify thinks that the same kingdom approach can be taken
to classify Web vulnerabilities.

“The approach is one that Fortify is now donating to the
non-profit Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and it
might just help to take the study of vulnerabilities out of the
Dark Ages…”

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