Assumed Risk: Trusting Open Source in Production

Assumed Risk: Trusting Open Source in Production Today, more than ever, companies have been adopting new open source tools to use in production. It seems like the NoSQL movement has opened up companies to adopting newer more cutting edge technology faster than ever. Tools like redis, CouchDB, MongoDB, and Node seem to be showing up all over the Internet in many new web applications. This is fantastic as the technologies behind these products are quite amazing. I use them everyday in the various tools that I have written and its just a joy to work with. But I was thinking who tests this stuff for security issues. According to Linus’ Law most of these products should be fairly secure but how many eyes do you really need to ensure their aren’t potential security threats in these technologies? These tools have been adopted by thousands of organizations and they have them running naked on the Internet. I wondered what would happen if you tried to attack these services and what could be the potential impact. Copyright © 1996-2012 Juniper Networks, Inc.     All rights reserved                                                                                     Update preferences

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