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+-   Study: Open source software a security risk-> on Monday July 21 2008, @12:59PM chareverie

Submitted by chareverie on Monday July 21 2008, @12:59PM
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chareverie writes "Fortify Software released a study where they concluded that open source software poses a large security risk to corporations who have implemented it. They reason this by stating that the fault lies within the open source communities and their failure to adhere to minimum security practices. Fortify Software studied 11 open source software packages, where the application server Tomcat was determined to be the best. The other 10 were found to have poor results, with those being Derby, Geronimo, Hibernate, Hipergate, JBoss, Jonas, OFBiz, OpenCMS, Resin and Struts. Jacob West, manager of Fortify's research group, reminds that purpose of the study was "not to condemn open source software, but rather to point out that the security practices need to improve because open source adoption by enterprises and governments is growing.""
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