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Security through visibility: Revealing the secrets of open source security

Tags: open source security, open source, html, operating systems, microsoft windows, software

Overview This document presents a careful examination of the facts regarding how open source development relates to software security.

Debates rage across the Internet about the comparative security of Microsoft Windows and Linux-based operating systems. Part of the reason for seemingly endless debates is that many of the attempts to assess security focuses on epiphenomena: they examine the surface features of security without getting into much depth in analyzing the reasons for security characteristics. In this download, Chad Perrin presents a careful examination of the facts regarding how open source development relates to software security.

The debate on which is more secure, open source or proprietary software, has been visited many times on TechRepublic. Has your attitude about the security of either or both methods changed in the last year? Is any nontrivial application, regardless of its development methodology, really completely secure?

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Publisher: TechRepublic
File Format: PDF
Date Published: May 25, 2006
Format: White Papers
Topics: Security Management

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