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Open source software: Ways for CISOs to quell the fear

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

Data Center Knowledge

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Atomic writes are used in the popular MySQL databases for streamlining the software stack by replacing the need to write twice to maintain atomicty, or database ACID compliance.

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The big, gaping hole in software supply chain security

CIO Business Intelligence

If software supply chains consisted solely of open source code, securing them would be easy. Effective tools and methodologies exist for discovering and remediating software supply chain security risks that arise from open source components. For example, IDC found that 66.7%

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

The software and services an organization chooses to fuel the enterprise can make or break its overall success. Indeeds 2024 Insights report analyzed the technology platforms most frequently listed in job ads on its site to uncover which tools, software, and programming languages are the most in-demand for job openings today.

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Security researcher finds a way to run code on Apple, PayPal, and Microsoft’s systems

The Verge

The exploit is also deviously simple, and it’s something that many large software developers will have to figure out how to protect themselves from. When companies are building programs, they often use open-source code written by other people, so they’re not spending time and resources solving a problem that’s already solved.

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9 Must-Do Tips to Secure Ubuntu Server

Tech Republic

And if you happen to be a Linux systems administrator, you might think it doesn’t apply to you. Even though the Linux open source platform is considerably more secure than many. In today’s world, if you’re not constantly working to secure your servers, you’re already 10 steps behind every hacker on the planet.

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Technology and Hollywood Meet At SIGGRAPH 2013 » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Some highlights from the week included: Pixar celebrated the 25th anniversary of its RenderMan software, which has been used in 19 of the last 21 Academy Award-winners for Visual Effects. fxguide has an exclusive on Pixar’s RenderMan and the software’s co-founder Ed Catmull. Get daily email alerts direct to your inbox.