Software Innovators – Page 69 – Innovative Software Techniques

Virtual Private Server, is also called VPS (Virtual Private Server). Through this system is based firm offers its clients a hosting service with all the advantages of a dedicated server, but actually is a server shared by very few customers ( 3-8) by techniques called “virtualization” with. Each server clients can install and uninstall software, you can modify parameters of your server configuration and generally can do everything that is allowed on a dedicated server without any effect on what the rest are doing webmasters their areas of server. You can even reset our “portion” of server without the entire server is reset. This is because we are working on a virtual machine. These devices are intended for users who do not need the power of a dedicated server, but to a shared hosting seems limited in both performance and the limitations on the installation of Software. In a VPS user can install the software you need, and any changes you make to your virtual server will be transparent to other users.

If we hire a hosting with a VPS server is usually only 3-8 shared customers as we have indicated, distributed server capacity, but do not share and this is the main difference: If your VPS has 256 MB of guaranteed server RAM 2 GB, we will always have 256 MB of RAM and when other users are not using their own system assigned to our virtual machine’s RAM to the maximum theoretical excess of 2 GB available, in this example. The same is true of the transfer rate and processor usage. The drive and the monthly transfer limit if they are limited to what we have contracted. If the company provides also provides us with this we will be providing enough work.

Certainly, we are all concerned about security issues with your software. The Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM) understands this. They started the BSIMM project in March of 2009 as a joint effort between Cigital and Fortify Software. They record what organizations are doing to build security into their software and organizations. While they began with nine companies, they now have 30 participating organizations, according to Gary McGraw, the CTO of security consulting firm Cigital.

McGraw says that the BSIMM team has seen 109 activities that the 30 organizations are doing to secure their software, clearing indicating that companies are taking a great deal of measures to guarantee the security of their software products. These include 12 main categories which include everything from training to code review.

If you are a software innovator, you may want to download BSIMM2 to compare the safety measures that you are taking to those that other groups are using. If you’re just beginning to look into your security model, BSIMM2 is certainly a good place to begin to see what others before you have been doing.