Open Source Software Security – Mitigating Risks from Development, Integration, Distribution and Deployment

As the use of software proliferates across industries, the need for open source security becomes increasingly important. Adoption of OSS demonstrably yields lower acquisition costs, faster time-to-market, and other touted benefits, the community development model presents developers, integrators, and deployers with a set of accompanying challenges. Historically, foremost among these concerns stood license compliance and IP protection. Most recently, with multiple highly publicized threats to OSS, security has joined these legal issues.

Join this webinar with Jake Kouns, Chief Information Security Officer at Risk Based Security and Bill Weinberg, Senior Director of Open Source Strategy at Black Duck Software will explore the role of and requirements for security in OSS Logistics. It will:

• Highlight OSS adoption trends across IT, especially as those trends impact system and application security
• Review recent vulnerabilities in and exploits to key OSS components
• Examine the OSS security paradigm and challenges to it, including provenance, community expertise and oversight of vulnerabilities, and version proliferation and deprecation
• Present best practices in OSS management to promote application security