Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The newly formed Open Source Security Foundation includes titans in technology such as Google, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and more.

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Information Week

JUNE 25, 2024

Open-source software fuels the digital world, but how can enterprises manage its risks?

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Information Week

APRIL 3, 2024

The malicious code discovered in XZ Utils shines a light on open-source software and potential risk.

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Information Week

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Lots of enterprise software includes open source, but bad actors are poisoning projects. Is it still safe to use?

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The SOS program, run by the Linux Foundation, will reward developers with potentially more than $10,000 for enhancing the security of critical open source software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. Developers tend to enjoy the ability to speed application development by borrowing open source code. CFOs like the fact that open source is often free or low in cost. The age-old question: How secure is open source software?

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Jack Wallen believes this milestone should help big businesses realize it is time to trust open source software. Canonical announced that its managed services had MSPCV Certification.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 6, 2021

Audacity software has been acquired, and the new verbiage added to the privacy policy has the open-source community up in arms.

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Information Week

AUGUST 12, 2022

Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

How the Scorpio switch fabric is deployed While Astera Labs refers to Scorpio as a switch fabric, the actual technology the company currently provides is the silicon and software. The Scorpio technology will benefit from Astera Labs’ Cosmos software stack, which integrates connectivity, system management and optimization capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2024

It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. What is SONiC? Who created SONiC?

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Information Week

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bringing open-source software solutions into the mainframe could bring multiple benefits for businesses dealing with legacy systems -- but security must play a central role in any plan.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The high-tech community is still trying to figure out the long-term impact of the serious vulnerability found late last year in the open-source Apache Log4j software, and so is the US Senate. Software supply-chain security issues have bedeviled the cyber-policy community for years.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says. How was the AI trained?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The move relaxes Meta’s acceptable use policy restricting what others can do with the large language models it develops, and brings Llama ever so slightly closer to the generally accepted definition of open-source AI. The CIO’s role in these enterprises is among the toughest, as it involves issues of privacy, security, and criticality.

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. The libpcap library is an open-source tool for network traffic capture. Its part of the Wireshark code base, which means it is definitely open source and its always going to be that way, Combs said.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 11, 2021

sigstore could eliminate the headaches associated with current software signing technology through public ledgers.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Neural Magic was spun out of MIT in 2018, and it offers software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI inference workloads. Red Hat intends to democratize the power of AI through open-source-licensed models that can run anywhere.

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IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Open source software are programs whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute. Read on to learn more about open source software, how it works, and a few examples of such software. The post What Is Open Source Software?

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Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining theLinux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem. Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got together with NASA and created the open-source OpenStack project.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Networking software provider Aviz Networks today announced a $17 million Series A funding round to accelerate its growth in open networking solutions and artificial intelligence capabilities. The company aims to support customers with a 30-minute service level agreement (SLA), ensuring a high level of enterprise-grade support.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fifteen-year-old N-day Python tarfile module vulnerability puts software supply chain under the microscope. The post 350,000 open source projects at risk from Python vulnerability appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) have captured the imagination of IT leaders, but there is a significant gap between enthusiasm and implementation maturity for IT operations and service management, according to a new survey from BMC Software and Dimensional Research.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on Friday announced a shutdown of almost all services on WordPress.org, the open source project site thats the home of the software, plugins, and the WordPress community, but was unclear on when the shutdown would end.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The post AI: The Wakeup Call to Improve Open-Source Software Security appeared first on Spiceworks. Secure your OSS supply chain against AI-driven threats. Learn essential strategies for robust cybersecurity.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This won't replace antivirus software, but it can help you detect problems much more efficiently and allows more customization. Here's how to install it on Mac, Windows and Linux.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At the Open Source Summit (OSS) EU event in Vienna, Austria, on Sept. 16, the always colorful Linus Torvalds took the stage in a fireside chat to detail his views on the latest open source and Linux developments. Among the news: The free5GC open source 5G core software project is moving to the Linux Foundation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Open source has seen a great deal of momentum among mainframers, making collaboration easier and providing greater transparency. But for all of its benefits, open source is not without risks. By its very nature, open-source code is accessible to whoever wants to see it—including potential attackers.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Based on the Gluu server, the Janssen Project prioritizes security and performance and features signing and encryption functionalities.

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IT Toolbox

MARCH 22, 2024

Discover tightened global software security, key regulations, and open-source impacts on compliance and societal resilience. The post Deploying Open Source Software in an Age of Global Security Mandates appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Network World

MARCH 27, 2025

So we are participating by making that infrastructure layer a lot more efficient for cloud customers, or the hyperscalers, which, in turn, of course, gives the benefits to all of these software companies trying to run AI applications in these cloud companies. NextHop is also working at the software layer.

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