Overlooked Aspects of COTS-Based Development
IEEE Software
Barriers to disseminating off-the-shelf based development theories to IT industry
MPEC '05 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Models and processes for the evaluation of off-the-shelf components
Empirical study of the effects of open source adoption on software development economics
Journal of Systems and Software
Monitoring smartphones for anomaly detection
Mobile Networks and Applications
ICCBSS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on COTS-Based Software Systems
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As the computer industry focuses on system and network security, a growing number of users are taking a closer look at open source software in order to gauge whether its potential advantages outweigh its possible disadvantages. Although open source security has been around for years, it has never been as widely used as open source products like the Linux OS or Apache Web server have been. John Pescatore, Internet security research director at market-research firm Gartner Inc., said open source security tools now represent 3 to 5 percent of security-software usage but could comprise 10 to 15 percent by 2007. A key factor in this potential growth is the quality of numerous open source security packages. Open source software products include free tools that users can download from the Internet, packages that come with commercial vendor support, and tools bundled with closed source products. The most popular tools include Netfilter and iptables; intrusion-detection systems such as Snort, Snare, and Tripwire; vulnerability scanners like Nessus and Saint; authentication servers such as Kerberos; and firewalls like T.Rex. Some companies are even beginning to use open source security to protect mission-critical applications