Advocating Enhanced Security Collaboration In Open Source Software

"The security chiefs of several large infrastructure and software vendors said they are doing all they can do to embed security into their products, but they agreed that more work must be done to improve security between their platforms." How well does the open source community spread security issues? Does Redhat and Novel work together to improve security? One of the best ways to improve security is to have all players share their patches to fix vulnerabilities fast.

Secure software code is a priority at Oracle, said Oracle CSO, Mary Ann Davidson. She suggested more collaboration between vendors on security issues and called on the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to encourage the development of a secure software auditing standard. Davidson said such a standard could force better collaboration and ultimately reduce flaws in software code.

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