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Open Source v. Closed Source: What's More Secure?Open Source v. Closed Source: What's More Secure?

In the wake of Shellshock and Heartbleed, has the glow of open-source application security dimmed?

Sara Peters

October 17, 2014

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Sara Peters

Sara Peters

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Sara Peters is Senior Editor at Dark Reading and formerly the editor-in-chief of Enterprise Efficiency. Prior that she was senior editor for the Computer Security Institute, writing and speaking about virtualization, identity management, cybersecurity law, and a myriad of other topics. She authored the 2009 CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey and founded the CSI Working Group on Web Security Research Law -- a collaborative project that investigated the dichotomy between laws regulating software vulnerability disclosure and those regulating Web vulnerability disclosure.


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