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Is open source software bad for business? |
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by Davey Winder
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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Page 3 of 3 Not following enterprise-level change control standards
is a big and costly problem for business. Jennifer Bayuk, an
independent security consultant and former CISO of Bear Stearns,
reckons that there is a "hidden cost for the enterprise" in using open
source because businesses will have to "test and patch for security
bugs they don't anticipate."
The final word, though, must go to the founder
and CTO of Fortify Software, Roger Thornton, who insists that "in order
to mitigate the business risk created by insecure applications, it is
imperative that companies adopt a process that allows them to assess,
remediate and prevent security vulnerabilities in all of their business
software, whatever the source." Which sounds like pretty sensible
advice to me...
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