Its 2020. If youre developing applications, you need application security. Period.

This is an important message with high stakes. Yet, because we live in a world where things move fast, teams are stretched, budgets are tight and the pressure is on to deliver, its no surprise many organizations dont have the type of bulletproof AppSec program they need in place. Whether youre starting from scratch or are in the process of building out a security program, a single vulnerability in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) can jeopardize the security of an entire application.

The modern software development lifecycle is complex. Continuous integration and continuous delivery mean you need to be continuously scanning for vulnerabilities. You need to close the security chasm and avoid potential risk to critical business applications, including the overall impact on business. But theres cost, time and complexity associated with onboarding your first vulnerability discovery tools. So, you need a variety of resources to successfully execute consistent, comprehensive security scans. All this can lead to serious security paralysis when trying to institutionalize an implementation policy.

Youd think this calls for careful planning and meticulous implementation of a comprehensive program for risk-based vulnerability orchestration across applications and infrastructure. Youre not wrong, but you cant wait. So, whats a Dev or Ops team to do?

Heres some good news. Companies with an emerging or growing AppSec and vulnerability management program can bootstrap their efforts with open source software (OSS). No commercial offerings required. Companies can use a wide range of OSS scanning tools to quickly integrate across all phases of the SDLC and immediately reduce business risk. There are software composition analysis (SCA) tools to automate visibility into open source components. Static application security testing (SAST) tools analyze developers code, and dynamic application security testing (DAST) looks for vulnerabilities in deployed software. And open source cloud management scanning can validate the security of applications deployed across AWS environments.

Using open source tooling for rapid AppSec enables you to jumpstart and accelerate critical security initiatives without taking a big bite out of your two scarcest resources: money and time. The scanning tools are freeit doesnt get any more cost-effective than that. And without the complex onboarding typically associated with commercial toolsets, you can deploy application security programs rapidly.

Of course, this is just the first step in building a robust, closed-loop discovery and remediation process across your organization, but it is a big first step. Immediately plugging your AppSec gaps gives you a head start on integrating application scanning across the SDLC to ensure business risk is managed effectively. From there, you can focus on building out your program to better manage overall business risk and drive security into DevOps with capabilities such as compression and ingestion to prioritize units of development work, target discovery and application mapping, security governance through policy configuration and more.

ZeroNorths solution for Rapid AppSec delivers a set of out-of-the-box OSS scanning tools to help address security through all phases of the SDLC, including both developer and third-party components. By embedding these tools directly within the platform, you can get started even fasterand youll use a central platform to manage all those AppSec scan tools and to help prioritize areas of risk across the SDLC.

Visit the ZeroNorth booth (#5360 in Expo Hall North) to get a demo of our risk-based vulnerability orchestration platform around Rapid AppSec and Open Source Tooling. Youll see first-hand how you can reduce business risk by quickly integrating security scanning across the SDLC and how, with open source scan tools embedded directly within the platform, you can jumpstart critical initiatives without the need for commercial offerings. If youd like to schedule a time to meet at the show, weve got an easy meeting request form available now.

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The Tamarind Tree school in Dahanu, India, encourages self-learning through open educational resources and open technology

At Tamarind Tree, the traditional classroom and traditional teacher role do not exist. Using open source software and open educational resources, the school has developed an entire digital ecosystem, with their LMS built on Moodle My Big Campus in the centre.

Each day, students access the learning content and go through activities independently, nurturing their curiosity and self-assurance. In this setting, the role of the teacher is not as someone who delivers content, but more like a facilitator who mentors the children during their learning journey. As well as guiding the children through what theyre learning, when a teacher detects that a student is having difficulties with a topic or concept, or requires help, they will schedule one-on-one meetings where they both research and learn together.

Because our system is technologically run its extremely easy to pinpoint exactly in which concept [] the learner is facing a problem, says Tamarind Tree team member Ayushi.

Facilitators are then ready to provide the most suitable intervention to support the learners understanding.

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A new informative report titled as the global Open Source Software Market has recently published in the extensive repository of Contrive Datum Insights. The global Open Source Software research is often attributed to several applicable business strategies to enlarge the businesses. Additionally, it offers a comparative study of key players along with their business frameworks to understand global competition among those. It offers a complete analysis of market strategies and how those strategic forces affect the market growth. Due to the rising demand of online platforms in businesses, it offers technological advancements and their impacts on businesses. Additionally, it offers insights on changing business scenario, historical records as well as futuristic developments.

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The key players covered in this study: Intel, Epson, IBM, Transcend, Oracle, Acquia, Actuate, Alfresco Software Inc, Astaro Corp, RethinkDB, Canonical, ClearCenter, Cleversafe, Compiere Inc., Continuent Inc.

The report also outlines the sales and revenue generated by the global Open Source Software market. It is broken down in many segments, such as regional, country level, by type, application, and others. This enables a granular view of the market, focusing on the government policies that could change the dynamics. It also assesses the research and development plans of the companies for better product innovation.

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To identify the market needs across the global regions, it offers an analytical survey into North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia-Pacific have been examined to get a clear idea. The global Open Source Software market registers the highest market share in the region. Asia Pacific has a large population, which makes its market potential a significant one. It is the fastest-growing and most lucrative region in the global economy. This chapter specifically explains the impact of population on the global Open Source Software market. Research views it through a regional lens, giving the readers a microscopic understanding of the changes to prepare for.

Table of Contents (TOC):

Part 1 Market Overview

1.1 Market Definition

1.2 Market Development

1.3 By Type

1.4 By Application

1.5 By Region

Part 2 Key Companies

Part 3 Global Market Status and Future Forecast

3.1 Global Market by Region

3.2 Global Market by Company

3.3 Global Market by Type

3.4 Global Market by Application

3.5 Global Market by Forecast

Part 4 Asia-Pacific Market Status and Future Forecast

4.1 Asia-Pacific Market by Type

4.2 Asia-Pacific Market by Application

4.3 Asia-Pacific Market by Geography

4.3.1 China Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.2 Southeast Asia Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.3 India Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.4 Japan Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.5 Korea Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.6 Oceania Market Status and Future Forecast

4.4 Asia-Pacific Market by Forecast

Part 5 Europe Market Status and Future Forecast

5.1 Europe Market by Type

5.2 Europe Market by Application

5.3 Europe Market by Geography

5.3.1 Germany Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.2 UK Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.3 France Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.4 Italy Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.5 Russia Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.6 Spain Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.6 Netherlands Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.7 Turkey Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.6 Switzerland Market Status and Future Forecast

5.4 Europe Market by Forecast

Part 6 North America Market Status and Future Prospects

6.1 North America Market by Type

6.2 North American Market by Application

6.3 North American Market by Region

6.3.1 US Market Status and Future Prospects

6.3.2 Canadian Market Status and Future Prospects

6.3.3 Mexico Market Status and Future Prospects

6.4 North American Market by Forecast

Part 7. South America Market Status and Future Prospects

7.1 South America Market by Type

7.2 South American Market by Application

7.3 South America Market

7.3.1 Brazil Market Status and Future Prospects

7.3.2 Argentina Market Status and Future Prospects

7.3.3 Columbia Market Status and Future Forecast

7.3.4 Chile Market Status and Future Prospects

7.3.5 Peru Market Status and Future Prospects

7.4 South American Market Forecast

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8.1 Middle East and Africa Market by Type

8.2 Middle East and Africa Market by Application

8.3 Middle East and Africa Markets by Region

8.3.1 GCC Market Status and Future Prospect

8.3.2 North Africa Market Status and Future Prospects

8.3.3 South Africa Market Status and Future Forecast

8.4 Middle East and Africa Market Forecasts

Part 9 Market Features

9.1 Product Features

9.2 Price Features

9.3 Channel Features

9.4 Purchasing Features

Part 10 Investment Opportunity

10.1 Regional Investment Opportunity

10.2 Industry Investment Opportunity

Part 11 Conclusion

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Given the amount of attention Microsoft and Slack receive, you would think they were the only players in the enterprise teamwork platform market. The two share a mutual love of trading barbs, including some uncharacteristic industry humor from Slack when aTwitter postlampooned Microsoft for producing a copycat video. The tit for tat carries on through an ongoing numbers war, which started with Microsoft boasting 20 million daily active users and Slack retorting that Microsoft "forces"users to migrate to Teams but that real engagement was weak.

It would be easy to forget in the midst of all this that a number of other commercial enterprise teamwork platforms were available, including products from OpenText, Tibco, Salesforce, Google, Wrike, even Amazon.

Considering the number of entrants in this competitive landscape, I was surprised to see another contender, Mattermost, spotlighted at the latest Gitlab Commit Conference, where founder and CEO Ian Tien presented what he sees as the unique business opportunity for his company.

Mattermost is different from its competitors in several ways (starting with having an appropriate product name for the market segment).First, it is open source and second, it can be installed as an on-premises server or as a managed cloud service.On the downside, it lacks the unified communications capabilities of its competitors, such as video conferencing and screen sharing.

As an open source solution, Mattermost uniquely appeals to the market segment that prefers open source software over proprietary solutions. These folks contend open source enables a large pool of developers to customize code to unique specifications. Plus, many people believe that open source software is more secure because it can be subjected to the scrutiny of experts who can identify, and therefore patch security holes quickly, instead of relying on a single vendor to find and patch its own flaws.

Where I think the Mattermost approach gets interesting is its decision to enable on-premises installations, which flies in the face of the current market trend to favor cloud solutions over on-premises software.

While cloud software offers many advantages, like scalability, availability, ease of updating and maintaining new versions, to name just a few, Mattermosts on-premises deployment option addresses some organizations typically those in highly regulated industries need for control over sensitive data. Traditional enterprise software companies like OpenText, Cisco and even Microsoft with Skype for Business have provided on-prem servers for years, but it is unusual to see a new contender architect a modern enterprise teamwork platform for on-premises deployment. The last best-of-breed on-premises teamwork platform was Atlassian HipChat (discontinued after Slack acquired its IP). So, is there a real market for an on-prem solution?

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Official Microsoft numbers talk about 20 million active Teams users, which accounts for only 10% of the 200 million Office 365 subscribers.Slack claims 12 million users. Any way you slice it, its early stages for the teamwork / enterprise instant messaging platform market, so the vendor focus to date has been on getting workers to use the tools.

So far, little attention has been given to how team conversations are stored or what happens to them over time. Unlike documents and emails, instant messages are not seen as persistent documents of record. Rather, conversations are considered an ephemeral form of communication, and the need to discover old conversation data for audits or ediscovery is not a priority yet.

But as team conversations gain traction in organizations, they will begin to truly augment, and in some cases, replace email. As such, records management for conversations will soon become a requirement, first for regulated industries, like finance and insurance, and later for verticals where knowledge retention and management are particularly important, such as professional services and local governments.

There are two contemporary approaches to team conversations records management: the first is storing conversations in a vendors cloud and relying on the vendor to provide security and permanent access to the conversation history. Today, the bulk of the market feels comfortable with this approach, since cloud vendors invest considerable resources making sure their clouds are robust, available, and secure, which is much more than most organizations can provide for themselves.

The second approach is the one offered by Mattermost: with an offer to deploy a messaging server on-premises and to retain the historical data from conversations in-house. Based on the current marketing buzz, this seems to be bucking the market trend, but maybe there is a place for such a solution.First, the move to the cloud is (despite the hype) not close to being universal. This is particularly true for organizations with a high degree of customization requirements and a legal, regulatory or philosophical desire to maintain sensitive data in house.

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As adoption of teamwork software grows and becomes more mainstream, the requirements for conversation records management will begin to surface. At that point, you'll be sure to see more attention paid to discovery, archiving and improved search capabilities from the cloud vendors. How fast this will progress is still uncertain. Until then, organizations with detailed requirements can opt for an in house solution.

In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the ongoing duel between Microsoft and Slack.

A technology strategist, David is fascinated by the interactions linking people, organizations and technology. His specialty is helping organizations determine the appropriate product/market fit and developing creative go-to-market strategies.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, and the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) today announced a strategic partnership to advance security for open source software (OSS) that has become critical to the world's infrastructure.

The organizations will bring together and build on a depth of their experience supporting security audits for widely deployed open source communities. This formal and strategic agreement will allow the Linux Foundation to augment its work on security audits, of which it has already investedmore than$1macross more than 20 security audits for open source projects to date, by including audit sourcing experts through OSTIF's network. OSTIF will share the resources available through the Linux Foundation's Community Bridge, a funding and support ecosystem for developers and projects, with its community to help fundraise for new audits.

"The Linux Foundation's ability to fundraise across industries to support thousands of developers around the world is unprecedented," said Amir Montazery, vice president of development at OSTIF. "The Linux Foundation is a pioneer in open source software and one of the few organizations taking the actions required to truly support it for generations to come. We are excited to join forces and increase our collective impact on improving critical software."

As part of the strategic partnership, The Linux Foundation will appoint Mike Dolan, vice president of strategic programs, to the OSTIF Advisory Board.

"OSTIF represents a global community and network of security experts and developers and demonstrates an important commitment to the improvement and sustainability of open source software," said Mike Dolan, vice president of strategic programs, Linux Foundation. "This is a natural collaboration that we hope will increase trust in the global open source software supply chain that underpins modern society."

About the Linux Foundation Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation's projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

About Open Source Technology Improvement Fund The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is a non-profit organization that connects open source security projects with much needed funding and logistical support. This core value is driven by public fundraising and by soliciting donations from corporate and government donors.For more information, please visithttps://ostif.org

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In recent years, there has been a growing realization that privacy is every citizens right. Whats also become clear is that you cant have privacy without security in place. You only need to look at the number of cyber-attacks which have plagued the headlines in recent years to see that companies have been irresponsible to date. No company is immune to todays cybercriminals, especially financial services companies who process and handle huge amounts of sensitive information. With this in mind, these businesses need to ensure theyre adopting the right technologies to protect themselves from this growing threat.

Stephan Fabel, Director of Product, Canonical - publisher of Ubuntu.

Encryption is one of the biggest solutions to this problem and is an enabler of modern-day banking and fintech operations. Banks are well-known for using encryption for security reasons. Currently, the biggest challenge facing the finserv sector is around bringing this level of security to the wider industry. Finserv customers want high levels of security but also easy deployment, flexibility, and agility, which often poses a challenge for IT teams. Canonical is working closely with IBM to overcome this issue and provide its fintech customers with the technology to optimize data protection and privacy across both containers and multi-cloud infrastructures.

One such technology is the secure service container - a tool which has been specifically developed for container-based applications on IBMs LinuxONE. Banks and fintechs are already using this technology to protect themselves against three of the most common attack factors: malware, ransomware and memory scraping, as well as other mainstream attack methods used for stealing cryptocurrency, and insider attacks which compromise user credentials.

By using the mix of hardware and software that the so-called security service container offers, developers get the same quality of security that they would on Linux, and this works in any data center, whether on-premise or using cloud services. The next generations of finserv IT infrastructures are being built around Linux because it is easy to deploy, and gives you a highly functional and easily automated stack. Industry giants such as Barclays have already built whole data center infrastructures around Linux. Besides providing easy access to innovations and software frameworks for IT teams, open source software also increases trust, which is essential for security compliance in the long term.

When it comes to close-sourced software, it is impossible to verify all background activities happening, and in case of a bug or an error, it is hard to analyse the reasons behind them, given only the original developer can access the backend. In the case of open source, the community of developers is very quick to spot and fix bugs or errors.

In the financial services industry, containerization can enable new levels of security, cost saving and developer efficiency. The majority of developers are not security experts but are looking for cost efficiencies when deploying new applications and systems. With containers, you can push a button, move things to the cloud and it will run as a virtual machine. These capabilities are not something developers have traditionally been able to benefit from to provide advanced security through hardware. Even with physical access to computers, cyber criminals wont be able to break into the system.

In about 10-15 years quantum computers will become powerful enough to break all current cryptography keys, and the banking and financial industries are preparing for the post-quantum cryptography already. Technology vendors are already populating their systems with such algorithms, moving from firmware into hardware. When quantum computers reach the required level of power, the majority of businesses will need to decrypt all of their data and encrypt it with the new post-quantum cryptographic methods.

In addition, blockchain technology will also become one of the key security algorithms. The goal is to enable the finserv industry to operate, test and run analytics without data. It is also great that new players in the finserv space, who have never had legacy systems in place, will build their infrastructures on non-monolithic systems.

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International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) managed to beat expectations with its fourth-quarter report last week, and it provided guidance calling for revenue and earnings growth in 2020. The stock has been trending downward for years as the company's transformation failed to translate into sustainable growth. That painful period may finally be over.

While looking at IBM's stock chart doesn't foster much confidence, there are a few good reasons to buy the stock.

IBM loaded up its balance sheet with debt to acquire open source software company Red Hat. While there's no guarantee that the $34 billion deal won't end in write-offs and disappointment, Red Hat presents IBM with some significant growth opportunities.

Red Hat itself was growing at a solid double-digit rate prior to the acquisition. Red Hat Enterprise Linux accounted for about one-third of the paid enterprise operating system market in 2018, second only to Microsoft. And Red Hat OpenShift, the company's container-based platform for hybrid cloud, currently leads the market.

The Red Hat acquisition strengthened IBM's position in the hybrid cloud market on day one. The combination of IBM and Red Hat is powerful, because IBM now has the opportunity to pitch Red Hat software to its large clients. Red Hat's normalized revenue growth rate accelerated to 24% in IBM's fourth quarter as that benefit began to be realized. One example: IBM recently announced a $1 billion hybrid cloud deal with a major Spanish bank involving Red Hat's OpenShift platform.

While IBM paid a steep price for Red Hat, the deal may end up being the key to IBM's return to sustainable growth.

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IBM grew its revenue in the fourth quarter, and it expects revenue growth in 2020. Earnings are being pressured by the accounting treatment of Red Hat's pre-acquisition deferred revenue, but IBM stock looks cheap even including that headwind.

For 2020, IBM expects to generate adjusted earnings per share of at least $13.35. This number includes the impact of IBM being unable to recognize all of Red Hat's stand-alone revenue. Free cash flow is expected to be around $12.5 billion, up from $11.9 billion in 2019.

With the stock trading around $139, both the price-to-earnings ratio and price-to-free cash flow ratio are right around 10. That's a valuation that assumes little or no growth. IBM expects to grow its adjusted pre-tax income by a high single-digit percentage annually through 2021, factoring in the benefits of Red Hat. If the company can hit that target, it could earn the stock a higher multiple.

A cheap price alone isn't enough to make a stock a good investment. But combine the beaten-down valuation with the growth potential afforded by Red Hat, and IBM looks like a good value.

IBM temporarily halted share buybacks once the Red Hat acquisition closed in order to prioritize paying down its debt. The company remains committed to growing the dividend, though, and another increase is expected in April.

Assuming IBM does raise its dividend in a few months, the company will become a Dividend Aristocrat, having increased its dividend for 25 consecutive years. IBM has paid dividends uninterrupted for over 100 years.

IBM's next dividend increase will likely be small, but a high yield makes up for the sluggish growth. The current quarterly dividend of $1.62 per share represents a yield of about 4.7%.

IBM is not a growth stock. Slow and steady growth is likely the best investors can hope for, but that's perfectly fine if the price is right. With IBM trading at pessimistic levels and sporting a high-yield dividend, growth doesn't need to be spectacular for the stock to be a winner over the next few years.

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Already using static code analysis? Try boosting your application security program with software composition analysis to automate open source management.

Every company is becoming a software company. Services and products in every field are becoming increasingly driven, powered and differentiated by software.

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With application development becoming a key differentiator for many organizations, how can they support their development teams with the testing tools to reduce flaws and vulnerabilities without interfering with developers priorities? 451 Researchs Designing a Modern Application Security Program Pathfinder paper (sponsored by Synopsys) notes, Organizations cannot rely on traditional network- and infrastructure-based security protections as they once did; they need to build protections into applications as well as fortify them against attack.

Thirty-seven percent of the respondents cited in the 451 Pathfinder paper are using some form of application security testing, with the majority of those using a static application security testing (SAST) tool such as Coverity static analysis. That figure may seem low at first glance. When enterprises have in-house application developers writing code for internal and external applications, the usage rates of both dynamic and static application security testing rockets to more than 80%.

Often the foundational application security testing tool for enterprises writing code for internal and external applications, SAST tools examine proprietary source code to identify code quality and security issues, including problems such as unsafe function use, race conditions, buffer overflows, and input validation errors that allow for attacks such as SQL injection.

However, SAST tools arent as effective in finding code quality issues in open source software as they are with proprietary code, or in identifying open source license types or versions. With much of the code in any modern application being open source, identification and management of that open source is essential to developing secure, high-quality code. SCA can automate open source management, enabling complete, accurate open source inventories, protecting against open source risks, and enforcing open source use policies.

In 2018, 451s Voice of the Enterprise Information Security study found software composition analysis (SCA) products in place in 11% of the enterprises surveyed, with another 11% of respondents saying they were planning to implement SCA in the next 12 months. Twenty-one percent of respondents in 2019 stated they now have SCA in place, with an additional 12% saying theyre currently evaluating vendor offerings.

The growth in SCA parallels the growth in open source use by development teams worldwide. Not only is every company becoming a software company; every company building software for internal and external applications is becoming an open source software company. The Synopsys Black Duck Audits team found open source in over 96% of codebases scanned in 2018, a percentage that went even higher (99%) when Black Duck Audits looked at codebases with over 1,000 files. On average, Black Duck Audits identified 298 open source components per codebase. Open source represented 60% of the code analyzed.

Because of the ubiquity of open source use, attackers see popular open source components as a target-rich environment. For example, more than 66% of active sites on the web use OpenSSL. Email servers (SMTP, POP, and IMAP protocols), chat servers (XMPP protocol), virtual private networks (SSL VPNs), network appliances, and a wide variety of client-side software all commonly use OpenSSL.

Only a handful of open source vulnerabilitiessuch as the Heartbleed vulnerability affecting OpenSSLare ever likely to be widely exploited. But when such an exploit occurs, the need for open source security becomes front-page newsas it did with the Equifax data security breach of 2017, which exploited a vulnerability in the open source framework, Apache Struts.

The Equifax breach and the overall proliferation of open source use have given SCA adoption a tailwind, notes the 451 Pathfinder paper. Organizations making heavy use of open source libraries typically have different versions of the same library used in different places, dated libraries and other inefficiencies. An SCA product can identify these problems, find and monitor inherent security vulnerabilities in open source libraries, and flag libraries with potential licensing issues.

As the 451 Pathfinder paper demonstrates, smart organizations in the business of building software for internal or commercial use have implemented SAST to strengthen and protect their code. And a growing number of organizations are further bolstering their application security programs with SCA to automate open source management and protect against the potential risk of having unidentified open source components in their codebase.

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Open Source Software Market 2020: Key Drivers, Opportunities and their Impact Analysis on the Market - VOICE of Wisconsin Rapids

Microsoft is mostly criticizedby the Linux community for their closed-source Windows operating system which single-handedly outperforms the popularity of all the Linux distros combined. The company has been an advocate of proprietary software, but in the last couple of years, Redmond has made a lot of contributions to the open source community.

Microsoft is now one of the top-tier members of the Linux Foundation and has aregular presence on GitHub. Stuffing distros such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fedora into the Windows Subsystem is the sign of love Microsoft is showing towards the Linux community.

However, on the other hand, some people might want to tie this with Microsofts evil intentions. Earlier, it was predicted that they would digestLinux in the long run. If Windows becomes capable of running Linux applications someday, then people might fall for it.

Leaving all these things aside, one important thing to consider is that various free and open-source software available for Windows 10. If you want to take advantage of Windows 10s fluidity and other features, you can do so with a touch of open source.

Dont forget to check out our list of open source apps for Android.

Developed by Mozilla Foundation, Firefox is an open-source web browser which was first released in 2002. Firefox started to lose its user base after the arrival of Google Chrome in 2009. But last year, Mozilla gave a massive transformation to Firefox, and now it stands proudly in front of Chrome and other leading browsers.

Firefox is the default web browser on various Linux distributions, but it also has gigantic user based on the Windows platform, and not to mention Android.

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People often criticize Google Chrome for its proprietary nature; its daddy Chromium is always ready to rescue the popular browser with its open source goodies. In fact, Chrome borrows itsbase code from Chromium after which Google makes some changes.

One of the advantages of having Chrome or Chromium is that you can stream content from your desktop to TV screen using a Chromecast receiver.

Chromium has posed itself as a serious contender for the default web browser on Linux systems. When it comes to Windows 10, many people are stuck to Chrome, but Chromium can be a great alternative if you want to fill your proprietary machine with some open source software.

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Its hard to imagine a Windows 10 machine without the VLC. Thats the reason it hasbagged the top position on our list of best media players for Windows 10. The open-source media player developed and maintained by VideoLAN.

Other than playing different audio/video formats, VLC can also be used to stream online content and download YouTube videos.

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You might have heard about the direct connect (DC) protocol used for sharing files over the internet. The open source DC++ is the most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing client based on the direct connect protocol.

You can use DC++ as an alternative to BitTorrent. Other than Windows, various DC clients are available for macOS and Linux. Read this post to know more about the pros and cons of DC++.

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qBittorrent is an open source client for Windows 10 which is used to download torrent files. The letter q in the name qBittorrent is because it is designed using Qt. qBittorrent is also available for other operating systems including macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.

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GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) can be assumed as the open source answer to Adobe Photoshop unless youre planning to spend ten years and master MS Paint,like, this guy did.

Created by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, GIMP has existed for more than two decades since its first release in 1995. The open source graphics editor can be used to create and make changes to photos and clipart in raster image formats including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc. GIMP is available for Windows 10, Linux, and macOS.

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Another name in the list of free and open source software for Windows 10 is Libre Office. In 2011, the office application suite sprung out of another open source project known as OpenOffice.

Libre Office currently offers a variety of apps like Writer (similar to MS Word), Calc (MS Excel), Impress (Powerpoint), Math (used to create and edit maths formulae), Draw (vector graphics editor), and Base (a database management program).

There are two versions of Libre Office which are in continuous development. Fresh release comes with all the latest features created for Libre Office, on the other hand, Still release is a little behind in terms of features but focuses more on stability.

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You cant question the capabilities of the 17-year-old open source tool 7zip when compressing and extracting files. The fact that 7zip is open source adds to the comfort of the haters of proprietary software.

7zip is primarily created for machines running Windows operating system. However, command line based versions for Linux distros are available. Other support for popular compression formats, 7zip also offers its own compression format called 7z.

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Probably, the only hypervisor software known to common users like us is VirtualBox. It allows people to run some other operating system, be it Windows or Linux, inside their primary operating system.

The original development of this open source software was carried out by Innotek GMbh before it was taken over by Sun Microsystems followed by Oracle.

Other than being an open source software available for Windows 10, VirtualBox is also available for other platforms including Linux, Solaris, macOS, etc.

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Tor Browser is the perfect solution for users who dont want to blow their anonymity cover on the internet. The open-source web browser for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux leverages Tor network to conceal users identity and IP address.

Its a modified version of the Firefox ESR browser which includes some add-ons such as HTTPSEverywhere, NoScript, etc. Tor browser reroutes the traffic through various nodes on the Tor network. It automatically deletes cookies and web history when the user closes the browser window, thus, reducing the chances of a user getting tracked.

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The file-sharing software FileZilla is also a great open source software for Windows 10. Its available for Linux and macOS as well. The FTP client was born as a class project of a student trio in 2001.

FileZilla offers protected file sharing which requires a username and password to access the shared data. Overall, the software has received a positive response, but it has been accused of storing passwords insecurely. Users have criticized FileZilla for bundling adware as a part of SourceForges revenue program.

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Thunderbird is an email client developed by Mozilla. Launched in 2004, it was able to serve the rising demand for a dedicated email client. In the last few years, Mozilla has reduced their focus on Thunderbird because they dont believe it can make the same the industry-wide impact as Firefox does.

The open source email client is available for Windows 10, Linux, and MacOS. Other than an email client, Thunderbird includes a Calendar,Chat client, and can receive RSS feeds amongst various other features. However, the emails are listed in a congested manner and might ruin your user experience.

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MPC-HC is also an open source media player for Windows 10. In terms of video and audio format support, it can easily go shoulder to shoulder with VLC. One thing I like about MPC-HC is that it can play 4K videos if youre running capable hardware.

The biggest drawback of MPC-HC is that its only available for Windows platforms, thats where VLC takes over by providing a cross-platform media player.

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In our list of the best password managers, you can find the open source Windows software called KeePass. Standing confidently among other proprietary password managers, KeePass provides an effective way to save and organize tons of usernames and passwords you have for your web accounts and various services.

All the account credentials added to KeePass are stored on the users system in an encrypted file to protect the information from attackers. It supports input and export of data from other password managers and also comes with built-in password generator which can suggest random passwords. Read more about creating a strong password.

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So, these were some of the free and open source software for Windows 10 you can use in your daily life. Ill try to extend this list in the future.

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