The Pros and Cons of Building a Security Business Around Open Source - Ev Kontsevoy - ESW #345

Many founders and early stage startups closely guard product details and information about their roadmap and go-to-market plan. Is it a bad idea then to build a company based around an open source project? Not at all, according to Ev Kontsevoy, whose company Teleport has done just that. Building a security vendor around open source isn't a magic formula for success, however, so we'll discuss the pros and cons of this approach.

We'll also discuss best practices for securing infrastructure …

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