Why is Security a Software Issue?
Julia Allen · EDPACS · 2007
Software is everywhere. It runs your car. It controls your cell phone. It's how you access your bank's financial services, receive electricity and natural gas, and fly from coast to coast (McGraw, 2006). Many products, services, and capabilities within both the public and private sectors are highly dependent on software to handle the sensitive and high-value data on which people's privacy, livelihoods, health, and very lives depend. National security—and by extension citizens' personal safety—relies on complex, interconnected, software-intensive information systems—systems that in many cases use the uncontrolled Internet or Internet-exposed private networks as their means for communicating and transporting information.