Akamai + Fingerbank: How an open source community can transform security
Isn’t it amazing how seemingly simple decisions can have far-reaching effects? When the Inverse team in Montreal took over PacketFence in 2008, it was an open source (OS) solution. They recognized the inherent value in keeping it as such. In so doing, they didn’t just launch a product–they created a global community. By making a trusted network access control (NAC) solution freely available, they planted the seeds of an ever-growing community of users that now numbers more than 5,000 deployments worldwide and more than 7 million endpoints. Continue reading Akamai + Fingerbank: How an open source community can transform security