Federal procurement requirements put open-source software at a disadvantage in the government market, making government systems less secure, a former program manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said. “It is still a debate whether open-source development produces more security than the traditional proprietary method,” said Doug Maughan, a senior research fellow with the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. “But a diverse environment of operating systems could improve security, and government officials now are limited in their choices.” Maughan spoke today at the Secure Trusted OS Consortium Symposium in Washington. Steve Cooper, the CIO of the Homeland Security Department, has been criticized for standardizing the department’s systems on Microsoft Windows, he said, “but I maintain Cooper made the choice he had to make.” “Government is looking for a higher assurance than they have today” in open-source software, he said. Full Story
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