Is Open-Source Security Software Safe?

Is Open-Source Security Software Safe?
Alex Salkever, Business Week 2001-12-11

Companies such as Guardent are so sure it is that they're building entire corporate product lines around it

Is Open-Source Security Software Safe? 2001-12-11
Anonymous

The idea that there's no support in the Open Source community is bogus -- I've received faster and more technically accurate/useful feedback from the FreeBSD community than any major vendor that I've got support contracts with. (Granted, attitude is often delivered along with code, but the code is ...

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Is Open-Source Security Software Safe? 2001-12-12
Anonymous

Actually, Open Source are use in some major corporation already for firewall, IDS and the like. Often, they are sitting just behind or after a Cisco Pix, a raptor or others. Some call that Defence in depth...

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Not a black-and-white issue 2001-12-12
TL

As usual, the question is more complex than "is open-source software more secure than proprietary software". It all comes done to the software itself, and the level of security auditing performed by either the white-hat hacker community or the vendor. A good example would be SSH, which has had some ...

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Quote from article:- 2001-12-12
Mark O

"I have never seen anyone using open-source cryptography software in really heavy duty, mission-critical applications,"

OpenSSH? OpenSSL? mod_ssl? Free S/WAN?

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Is Open-Source Security Software Safe? 2001-12-12
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña

The article seems to miss some prominent uses of Open Source software in the security area. For example:

- Watchguard's Firebox which is based around Linux using netfilter (which they pay the author to improve)

- IPSO software used by Nokia which is really a hardened OpenBSD in which they base...

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Is Open-Source Security Software Safe? 2001-12-12
Anonymous

Snort is one heck of a program. Ive demo'd several other IDS packages but none stack up to snort. Btw you can find snort at www.snort.org. Snort + ACID = great combo

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Is Open-Source Security Software Safe? 2001-12-13
Anonymous

Each time I read an article which wonders "Is OpenSource Good Enough", I have to laugh. Both at work and at home, I protect my systems with OpenSource security software freely available on the internet. I write up my own dynamic security scripts which makes use of these software packages to adapt to...

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