[luau] News - Defense, Cybersecurity Officials Praise 'Open Source' Software

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Wed Oct 30 19:21:01 PST 2002


Two articles about Red Hat/Dell's Security Summit in Washington.

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-30-012-26-SC-RH-PB

"'Open source allows us the opportunity to have a pro-active and
pre-emptive identification of security holes by friendly analysis,' said
Ken Linker of the Defense Information Systems Agency. He read the
written presentation of Robert Walker, the program manager for the
agency, which runs the software for a large portion of the department's
command-and-control systems.

"'As a result, this early identification and rapid repair of security
vulnerabilities has become a major advantage of open source over more
proprietary approaches to software development,' Linker read. The
presentation was replete with positive references to the security
advantages of open-source software..." 
(continued in the two articles)




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