Jon Friedman is vice president of product marketing at Astaro Corporation. He has 20 years of experience with technology companies in marketing, business planning, market analysis, and sales. He was worked with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, including Systems Engineering, ePresence (formerly Banyan Systems), Nortel Networks, EPiCON, Wang Software, and Unisys.
Does the open source community provide world-class security technology? Can
organizations stop dealing with commercial vendors for security software?
To avoid any undue suspense, the answers are: "Emphatically yes" and "Maybe,
but you probably need to make an investment of some kind." But let's take a
look at the evidence - this article references two open source projects:
netfilter and Snort. Escalating ChallengesFirst, it's clear that the
challenges related to security are escalating. Outbreaks of viruses and worms
are becoming more virulent and spreading faster. Blended threats and
application-specific attacks are becoming more sophisticated and harder to
detect. Wireless communications, instant messaging, and peer-to-peer networks
are opening new holes in corporate defenses. Top management is taking a
sudden and unaccustomed interest in IT security. Yet IT depart... (more)
Jon Friedman is vice president of product marketing at Astaro Corporation. He has 20 years of experience with technology companies in marketing, business planning, market analysis, and sales. He was worked with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, including Systems Engineering, ePresence (formerly Banyan Systems), Nortel Networks, EPiCON, Wang Software, and Unisys.
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