Open Source - a question of national security
What will you do when things go bad? Taking precautions in a failing world
Markus Feilner
Markus Feilner is consultant for open source strategies from Regensburg. He has been working with Linux and FLOSS since 1994, was deputy editor-in-chief at both Heise iX and Linux-Magazin and Team Lead Documentation at SUSE. With his company Feilner IT, he has been helping IT professionals on OSI layers 8, 9, 10 and 11 for almost 25 years.
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Climate change, wars, catastrophes, political uproar: Some things are going bad. Risk management on the higher OSI Layers has never been that important - so how well are you prepared? Is your company relying on software imports? Do you even know? do you have a clue where and how much open source software could one day be the one thing that safes your job, life, company? What is crucial for your setup, are your plans when things go bad?
Don't get me wrong, this is not a prepper talk. This is about good enterpreneurship, good project management and about digital sobriety. Face it, you WILL run into problems. What's your alternatives? It's not only about digital sovereignty, sustainability, sobriety, or security. Whithout OSS, none of the above is possible.
No matter if it's but the malware ransomware hacker attack that takes down your groupware, or the licensing server that keeps denying your requests. How will you cope? From OSI Layer 8 (the user) through managemennt (9 and 10) to 11 (global politics), everybody is affected, in the end this is a question of national security. Especially when spending tax money, you can rely, but you shouldn't depend on foreign actors, but we do. What's your plan?
- Date:
- 2024 June 19 - 12:00
- Duration:
- 15 min
- Room:
- Room III (Community Summit)
- Conference:
- Community Summit Berlin
- Language:
- Track:
- Open Source
- Difficulty:
- Easy