• John Richard@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    A SaaS solution that claims to be private but won’t provide the backend code to prove it. You don’t find it at all suspicious that they claim releasing backend code would make it less secure? What kind of security product is not open for inspection? The same kind of “security” you get from Microsoft.

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      4 months ago

      I imagine it probably is inspected, just not by the public. They probably do it themselves.

      And they may have contracts with certain companies specializing in this sort of security that also inspect it.

      And there’s also the cybersecurity companies that test it whether they’re contracted or not. At some companies, their entire job revolves around finding bugs (especially security bugs) in other companies’ software.

      Just because it’s not on GitHub doesn’t mean it’s not a good product that hasn’t been thoroughly tested.

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        4 months ago

        Surely we’re not gullible enough to accept “we inspected ourselves and determined we are secure and you should use our services”?

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        4 months ago

        You realize that Microsoft code is inspected as well, even more heavily and regulated… and yet they still end up with major breaches. Security evolves through open source collaboration and inspection by experts that aren’t being paid to say you’re doing a good job.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah because enterprises primarily use a ton of open source security tools…

      ಠ_ಠ

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        4 months ago

        Enterprises are using a plethora of open source tools at this point. They may still utilize closed source solutions, but they definitely have quite a bit of open source solutions tied in.