Open source traits lead to secure applications
The manner in which open source tools are developed lends a level of security assurance to the applications that are built on this model, said Sun Microsystems executives.
Roman Tuma, Asia South software practice managing director at Sun, noted that due to the inherent nature of open source, anyone can review the source codes to look for irregularities that could potentially harm users.
“I do see it as being more secure or more ‘transparent’ than proprietary software,” Tuma said in an interview Wednesday, on the sidelines of this week’s Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia Conference here, where he was a speaker. The Sun executive is also a member of Singapore’s National Authentication Framework Committee and the Philippines Ministry of Communication’s Advisory Committee on Cyber Security.
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