The Top 5 Open Source Security Myths

pen source has developed a reputation in the IT
world. While many companies are now adopting
oOpen source security, there still remain industry myths
about whether or not this is a viable solution that most
enterprise environments can easily implement and use
while maintaining the level of security traditional
solutions offer.
Find out what you should and shouldn't believe about
open source security with these top 5 myths and truths,
and get the real story about how source security can
work for your organization.truth: The truth is, the best open source
firms have made configuring and maintaining a
secure policy easy with usable, point-and-click
management. These solutions can integrate
completely with an organization's existing
infrastructure and can be implemented quickly
with no security or programming expertise
required.truth: Since open source firms don't have
excessive licensing fees, the value must focus, and
even rely on consistent, reliable and effective support.
And since security is a process, not an end product,
the value Open Source brings to service corresponds
especially well with security. When combined
successfully with experience, open source provides
the best, cost-effective method of maintaining
security that is completely scaleable to your
organization and needs, in order to ensure customers,
data and applications are protected from attack.truth: In the past 5 years, open source firms have made
tremendous strides in the level of development, and commercial
solutions are now completely mature and fully stable, including
managed services and support. Yet, the true measure of stability
and reliability is performance year after year, on platforms
and applications that can adapt to changing conditions.
In many cases, open source deployments provide the
adaptability so necessary to evolve to new and
increasing threats.truth: Unlike years ago, open source firms are now used in
many Fortune 500 companies, making strides in developing secure
applications for huge, scalable environments. Businesses and
organization of all sizes around the world are realizing now,
more than ever, the value open source can bring to
their security operations, and the peace of mind
open source security can give companies in
maintaining customer privacy, network integrity and
application security.truth: In fact, it's just the opposite
- there's no security through obscurity.
The code is more open and more
adaptable to needed changes, and
patches are often released faster
than alternatives.Security is a process of integrating and maintaining
applications for reliably controlling access to information.
By being secure and scalable to multiple environments,
Open Source offers organizations a cost-effective way to
successfully combine applications to ensure that digital
resources remain secure.
Open source security is no longer a myth - it's a very real
and viable solution for crafting effective, comprehensive
security policies that are today being used in some of the
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