This proactive rather than reactive approach to software security holds a lot of promise in our view.

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Throughout the years, most organizations have taken a reactive approach to the evolving set of security and compliance issues.

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Glasgow City Council's Andy Young said his council had adopted the same reactive approach as Edinburgh's and experienced the same problems in trying to establish what constituted 'common good' status for their registers.

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So a traditional reactive police investigation's approach doesn't really work here.

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This private sector-led approach strikes me as one that companies would want to have codified in statute, rather than risking reactive and overly prescriptive legislation following a cyber disaster.

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