What Developers Can Do to Improve Cyber-Security

VANCOUVER, B.C.—There are a lot of different things that developers can do to improve open source code quality, but being driven by fear isn't one of them, according to Window Snyder, chief security officer at Intel. Snyder participated in a keynote conversation with Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, at the Open Source Summit on Aug. 30 here, talking about her experiences and recommendations for cyber-security. Snyder joined Intel in July, having previously held executive security management roles at Fastly, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft. Snyder said that whenever any of the companies she worked for considered incorporating open-source software, they always analyzed it the same as they would any commercial software. That consideration involved evaluating the code and security to make sure it met the organization’s requirements.