OpenSource Tools Sarah Cortes www.inmantechnologyIT.com Sarah’s blog: SecurityWatch Sarah’s ITtechEx column twitter: SecuritySpy LinkedIn: Sarah Cortes
OpenSource Tools Agenda
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Classes of Tools
Overview
Definition
History
Sarah Cortes, PMP, CISA
Clients:
Harvard University
Biogen
Fidelity
Professional Associations:
Sarah is a member of the AIM Advisory Board on Data Privacy Laws to the Massachusetts Legislature
Practice expertise
Complex Application Development/Implementation
IT Security/Privacy/Risk Management/Audit Management
Data Center Operations Management
Disaster Recovery/High Availability
Program/Project Management
Background
SVP in charge of Security, DR, IT Audit, and some Data Center Operations at Putnam Investments
As head of DR, ran Putnam's failover during 9/11 when parent Marsh McLennan failed over to our facility from the World Trade Center 99th floor data center
Coordinated over 65 audits per year
Previously ran major applications development for Trading/Analytics Systems
OpenSource Tools Classes of Tools
Messaging - Thunderbird
Business Intelligence - OpenOffice
Project Management
EGroupware
OpenBench
OpenProj
Diagramming - Dia
Operating Systems – Linux
Security - avg
Content Management (CMS)– Joomla!
Browser – Mozilla Firefox
Reference - Wikipedia
OpenSource Tools Will They …?
Drive you crazy?
Waste your precious resources on a marginal investment that will soon be out of date?
Serve as evidence to be used against you later?
OpenSource Tools Could they help….?
Save you after you have already gotten into trouble?
Attempt, however lamely, to keep you out of trouble
Prove that, however obvious the trouble is, it is not your fault
OpenSource Tools Calling in the Experts
OpenSource Tools Did you know….?
Seven out of ten attacks are from…
OpenSource Tools You may be wondering…
Why would anyone rely on them?
Is free software real?
Will new tools ever stop coming out, just for a little while?
OpenSource Tools Standards Overview
ISO/IEC 27000 - International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission
ITIL – Information Technology Infrastructure Library
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
PMBOK – Project Management Body of Knowledge
TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework
CMMI for Development - Capability Maturity Model Integration
SEI’s CMM (Capability Maturity Model) for SW
(US DoD) Software Engineering Institute
COBIT - Control Objectives for Information & related Technology
Information Systems Audit and Control Association
OpenSource Tools Definition
“ a decentralized form of production in which the underlying programming instructions, or “source code”, for a given piece of software are made freely available. Anyone can look at it, modify it, or improve it, provided they agree to share their modifications under the same terms.…”
-The Economist, June 10, 2004
OpenSource Tools Definition
Free Redistribution
Source Code -The program must include source code
Derived Works -The license must allow modifications
Integrity of The Author's Source Code
No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
Distribution of License
License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
License Must Not Restrict Other Software
License Must Be Technology-Neutral
-Open Source Initiative
OpenSource Tools History
1960 - Arpanet
1969 - Internet
1998 – January- Netscape Navigator
1998 – February- Open Source Initiative (OSI)
1998 – April- 1998 – Open Source Summit
2008 – Proliferation everywhere
Sarah Cortes www.inmantechnologyIT.com
Clients:
Harvard Law
Harvard CAIT
Biogen
Fidelity
BeBop Media & Music
Practice expertise
Complex Application Development/Implementation
IT Security/Risk Management/Audit Management
Data Center Operations Management
Disaster Recovery/High Availability
Program/Project Management
Background – Sarah Cortes
SVP in charge of Security, DR, IT Audit, and some Data Center Operations at Putnam Investments
Previously ran major applications development for Trading/Analytics Systems
As head of DR, ran Putnam's failover during 9/11 when parent Marsh McLennan failed over to our facility from the World Trade Center 99th floor data center
Coordinated over 65 audits per year
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and PMP-certified ( Project Management Program)
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