Fred Bals

Fred Bals is a senior software security technical writer and researcher within the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC). He is a Mini Cooper fanboy and has worked for both Google and Bob Dylan at various points in his career.

Open Source Software and the Tragedy of the Commons

November 17, 2020 | Linus's Law, open source, open source communty

With many eyes looking at code, “All bugs become shallow,” as software developer and author Eric Raymond called Linus’s Law in action. This is one of the reasons behind the popularity of ...

How to Source Vulnerability Data for True DevSecOps

July 14, 2020 | application development, devsecops, open source, vulnerability management

Open source comes with code vulnerabilities that must be considered in the DevOps process The war between open source and “only proprietary code” is long over. Open source won the day by ...