TY - CONF
AU - Ardagna, Claudio Agostino
AU - Damiani, Ernesto
AU - Frati, Fulvio
ED - Feller, Joseph
ED - Fitzgerald, Brian
ED - Scacchi, Walt
ED - Sillitti, Alberto
PY - 2007
DA - 2007//
TI - FOCSE: An OWA-based Evaluation Framework for OS Adoption in Critical Environments
BT - Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation
SP - 3
EP - 16
PB - Springer US
CY - Boston, MA
AB - While the vast majority of European and US companies increasingly use open source software for non-key applications, a much smaller number of companies have deployed it in critical areas such as security and access control. This is partly due to residual difficulties in performing and documenting the selection process of open source solutions. In this paper we describe the FOCSE metrics framework, supporting a specific selection process for security-related open source code. FOCSE is based on a set of general purpose metrics suitable for evaluating open source frameworks in general; however, it includes some specific metrics expressing security solutions’ capability of responding to continuous change in threats. We show FOCSE at work in two use cases about selecting two different types of security-related open source solutions, i.e. Single Sign-On and Secure Shell applications.
SN - 978-0-387-72486-7
ID - 10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_1
ER -