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Fred Bals

Fred Bals is a senior software security technical writer and researcher within the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC). He is a Mini Cooper fanboy and has worked for both Google and Bob Dylan at various points in his career.

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Open Source Software and the Tragedy of the Commons

With many eyes looking at code, “All bugs become shallow,” as software developer and author Eric Raymond called Linus’s Law in action. This is one of the reasons behind the popularity of open source: the volunteer communities working to improve and update the code. And according to a Purdue University study, Linus’s Law does, in […]

Nov 17, 2020 · 3 min

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How to Source Vulnerability Data for True DevSecOps

Open source comes with code vulnerabilities that must be considered in the DevOps process The war between open source and “only proprietary code” is long over. Open source won the day by convincing the opposition of the benefits of joining the open source community. “Vulnerabilities in the Core,” a report published by the Linux Foundation […]

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