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Information Technology News Is open source software bad for business? | Is open source software bad for business? |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Monday, 21 July 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 The former cyber security advisor to the White House,
Howard A. Schmidt, says that while open source can be a valuable option
in the corporate enterprise, vulnerabilities need to be a point of
concern with CIOs. "This is an endemic issue that starts in the open
source community" Schmidt insists, adding "while open source software
faces the same vulnerabilities as commercial or in-house developed
software, the mechanisms to test and analyze software code need to be
done with great rigor in open source communities to influence a secure
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Yet while Forrester Research has indicated that 88 percent of respondents to its Enterprise and SMB Software Survey considered open source software security to be an important concern, and there is little doubting the enterprise adoption rates of OSS are on an upward curve, Fortify remains unconvinced that the open source development community is taking security seriously enough. It argues that little has been done within the OSS community to implement what it calls "enterprise-worthy application security measures" and as such recommends that businesses should apply the same kind of risk and coding analysis techniques that financial services companies do with their open source software implementations. So how can business best mitigate against the risk of insecure applications and what is the hidden cost of open source software in the enterprise? Find out on the next page... CONTINUES |
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