Why offensive security needs engineering textbooks

• Autores: Sergey Bratus, Iván Arce, Michael E. Locasto, Stefano Zanero
• Localización: ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE, ISSN 1044-6397, Vol. 39, Nº. 4, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Security), págs. 6-11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Offensive security—or, in plain English, the practice of ­exploitation—has greatly enhanced our understanding of what it means for computers to be trustworthy. Having grown from hacker conventions that fit into a single room into a distinct engineering discipline in all but the name, offensive computing has so far been content with a jargon and an informal “hacker curriculum.” Now that it is unmistakably an industry, and an engineering specialization, it faces the challenge of defining itself as one, in a language that is understood beyond its own confines—most importantly, by makers of law and policy.