InShort: Oasis Adopts New Security StandardInShort: Oasis Adopts New Security Standard

Oasis, the international standards consortium, approved the Application Vulnerability Description Language last week.

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June 25, 2004

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Oasis, the international standards consortium, approved the Application Vulnerability Description Language last week. AVDL provides a standard way for exchanging information about security vulnerabilities between applications and Web services from different security tools. For instance, a vulnerability scanner could use AVDL to send policy data to a firewall to help protect systems before a patch is issued.

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