History of the CERT secure coding standards?

Question

My question is when and why did researchers decide to create the CERT secure coding standards?

Is there anything about the history of this standards? I can't find anything about this.

Answer 1

Not to be too snarky, but did you try googling "cert secure coding history"? First hit: https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/History

I believe the first paragraph covers "when and why":

The idea of a CERT secure coding standard arose at the Spring 2006 meeting of the C Standards Committee in Berlin, Germany. The C Standard is an authoritative document, but ... its language is obscure and often impenetrable. A secure coding standard would be targeted primarily toward C language programmers and would provide actionable guidance on how to code securely in the language.