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By Patrick Curran  Now that a significant number of JSRs are being developed as open source projects, I thought it would be interesting to explore the implications of this for security.
First, let's start with the basics. Security is fundamental to the Java platform – it's built in to the Java Langua... Oct. 24, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 1,349 | By Theresa Bui-Friday  Imagine the CIO of a consumer bank who thinks he is running 50 Oracle databases, but now finds out that in fact he has 100 databases installed behind his firewall. He doesn't have any idea where the other 50 came from. He doesn’t know the name of the vendor(s) supporting them. And he... Aug. 27, 2008 02:23 PM Reads: 900 | By Theresa Bui-Friday  Hybrid applications made up of proprietary, open source and third-party components are the result of today's fast-paced and complex software development landscape. Applications developed within the last five years - whether internal or external - are at least 50% open source software (... May. 23, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 9,301 | By Christopher Frenz  Throughout the last decade, society has witnessed an explosion of network connectivity among PCs and mobile devices as well as a vast proliferation of networked applications, ranging from Web-based email to online banking. The end result of this is that network connectivity has become ... Mar. 7, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 3,021 | By Anthony Gold; Mike Anderson  Efforts to modernize enterprise infrastructure have never been more complex. While the need is certainly there on multiple fronts - competitive edge, cost savings and new business initiatives, to name just a few - new hurdles seem to pop up no matter where an IT administrator might loo... Jan. 17, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 4,997 | By Martin Petersen  Data corruption is an insidious problem in storage. While there are many forms of corruption, there are also many ways to prevent them. For example, enterprise class servers use error checking and correcting caches and memory to protect against single and double bit errors. System buse... Jan. 3, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 9,441 | By Ellen Libenson  Some years ago, a small manufacturing firm was hijacked by its IT employees. They didn't use weapons, but they did commit murder: They killed the business. Unfortunately, they were aided and abetted by the company's own lax security policies. Apr. 6, 2007 05:00 PM Reads: 8,876 | By Clayton Donley; Quan Dinh  In an environment with more than a few Linux servers, managing users, groups, and other information securely across those systems is critical. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) give administrators a way to accomplish this withou... Oct. 18, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 11,133 | By Christopher Frenz  The security benefits and risks of Open Source code is one of the most debated topics in information security today. The views of proponents of the Open Source model are typified by Eric Raymond's argument that Open Source software is intrinsically more secure since its open nature let... Jul. 24, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 17,719 |
YOUR FEEDBACK  | By Joe Ruck Nick Kelly wrote: Interesting article from a oracle ERP developers point of view I note that you could decide to write a saas application with open source technology eg Linux operating system, Postgresql database and a scripting langauge rendering html pages. The weak point is still the same and that is creating a bu... | | By James Irwin Bíró Tamás wrote: Great article. I hope many enterprise customers read it. My comment is that the term open source, is too generic. This mistake is often made by many people.
Open source software can be quite different, first, they can be low level as OS-es, databases; they can be lightweight like libraries or co... | | By Coach Wei arun wrote: Hi
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Please look into... | | By James Hamilton Joe Zibrosky wrote: What in the world does this have to do with opensource? Once again, losers like you feel free to inject your political biases in places where they don't belong. What a jerk. | | By Maureen O'Gara Gregor Rosenauer wrote: well, not what's your take on this? Did I miss a second page of this article or something? Seems a bit unfinished... |
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