Comments on: Security No-Brainer #7: If You Have Intellectual Property Embedded in Software, Protect it. http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/ A Member of the Gartner Blog Network Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:19:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Neil MacDonald http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Neil MacDonald Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:44:20 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/#comment-373 Yes - agree on Mr. Dhanani's comment. I alluded to this in the original post -- "including additional controls on source code in the development process." There are ways to do this without allowing the developer to keep a local copy of the source code. Yes – agree on Mr. Dhanani’s comment. I alluded to this in the original post — “including additional controls on source code in the development process.”

There are ways to do this without allowing the developer to keep a local copy of the source code.

]]> By: A. Dhanani http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/comment-page-1/#comment-372 A. Dhanani Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:09:35 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/#comment-372 There are way to keep the source code safe while the person is working on it. Allowing to the programmer/developer to add, delete, compile, de-bug, create source code without being able to keep any of it. A unique way to protect Source Code IP so situations like Goldman Sachs don't happen (ever). There are way to keep the source code safe while the person is working on it. Allowing to the programmer/developer to add, delete, compile, de-bug, create source code without being able to keep any of it. A unique way to protect Source Code IP so situations like Goldman Sachs don’t happen (ever).

]]> By: Neil MacDonald http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Neil MacDonald Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:43:08 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/#comment-370 Excellent point, Whit. Executable code is just another container of ones and zeros much like a Word document, spreadsheet or similar - any of which may contain embedded IP. Conceptually, the vendors and products I mention above are not too different than DRM on a sensitive document. Therein lies the rub - do most organizations really have a good grasp of what containers of bits represent sensitive information and which do not? IP embedded in software is an area where many organizations probably don't yet have a good grasp (to be fair some do, for example ISVs, software within embedded devices, etc...) Excellent point, Whit. Executable code is just another container of ones and zeros much like a Word document, spreadsheet or similar – any of which may contain embedded IP.

Conceptually, the vendors and products I mention above are not too different than DRM on a sensitive document.

Therein lies the rub – do most organizations really have a good grasp of what containers of bits represent sensitive information and which do not? IP embedded in software is an area where many organizations probably don’t yet have a good grasp (to be fair some do, for example ISVs, software within embedded devices, etc…)

]]> By: Whit Andrews http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/comment-page-1/#comment-368 Whit Andrews Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:18:19 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer-7-if-you-have-intellectual-property-embedded-in-software-protect-it/#comment-368 I'll take it past code, too, Neil. For example, we've written research that identifies search relevancy calculations as IP -- and why not? If a company like ours establishes lexicons that identify concepts, why wouldn't that represent absolute value for our competition or would-be competition? Your point is excellent -- IP is increasingly attached to code, and quasi-code. Failing to protect it is unfortunate if understandable. I’ll take it past code, too, Neil. For example, we’ve written research that identifies search relevancy calculations as IP — and why not? If a company like ours establishes lexicons that identify concepts, why wouldn’t that represent absolute value for our competition or would-be competition? Your point is excellent — IP is increasingly attached to code, and quasi-code. Failing to protect it is unfortunate if understandable.

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