The software giant was a holdout for years, but is now an official member. In a move that would have been unheard of a few years ago, Microsoft has joined the open source Eclipse Foundation. The organization for a long time counted Microsoft among its short list of major nonparticipants. But with Microsoft now embracing open source and the opportunities it can bring, the company finally climbed on board.
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The explosive growth of the Internet of Things has created a host of new threats for the enterprise. Here’s how hackers are targeting your connected devices and what you can do about it.
…In the enterprise, this danger is compounded as the bridge between traditional IT systems and IoT systems is strengthening, and IT managers can no longer rely on tried-and-true security methods. According to Steve Grobman, CTO at Intel’s Security Group, most organizations don’t have the resources to rebuild their infrastructure from the ground up, so they’re forced to rely on legacy systems that may never have been designed to be connected in the first place, and may therefore contain inherent vulnerabilities.
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For years, the benefits of open source code development have been self-evident to the software development community: Transparency leads to collaboration, and collaboration leads to better and more secure code. The scientific community is just starting to understand these benefits.
The growing open science movement is using these same lessons to make the scientific process more transparent, so that research findings will be more reproducible. In order to realize the benefits of open science, we must use a wide set of research tools to enable transparency, which will lead to increased discoverability, reuse, and collaboration.
To that end, the Center for Open Science (COS) is funding the development of an integration between GitLab and the Open Science Framework (OSF), and is seeking interested members of the open source community to contribute to this effort.
