User:Mark Dineen

Security evangelist, software architect and dev leader. 10 years experience in high security environments including HIPAA, PIPEDA, PCI, CISD and others. Security is not a checklist, it is a mindset - a way of thinking and planning that must permeate your data systems from metal and wire to markup and process, it must pervade your operations and become the local vernacular - you must be willing to be impolite at times and unaccommodating at others. In the end, your customers, vendors, partners and shareholders will thank you. You will have kept their privacy intact, safeguarded their financial interests and with the utmost respect and to the finest end, will have upheld your end of the agreement. Understand and internalize security fundamentals and follow the simple rules. Modern software development presents myriad choices for developers, and not all options are equal in merit.