Many forays into open source security are implemented successfully, only to suffer setbacks as the result of improper maintenance. The ability to correctly patch and update the various facets of a solution that uses OSS is crucial to maintaining security as well as stability, since otherwise issues can arise from having un-patched components that are susceptible to attack or disruption.

“Most of the packaged security appliances for everything from firewalls to security information management are built on the same BSD Unix and Linux distributions as the application servers you build yourself,”

Thanking you,
ur’s
Ravish PY,
Librarian,
Sri Revana Siddeshwara Institute of Technology,
Bangalore -562157
Karnataka (state)
India