Red Hat CIO Takes an Open-Source Approach to Security and BYOD
Every organization today faces a similar set of challenges about implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices, secure access measures and new technology deployment.
When you're the CIO of a technology vendor, those challenges are magnified, as subject matter experts on any and every choice that the CIO has to make, are plentiful and often vocal. That's the challenge that faces Lee Congdon, CIO of Linux vendor Red Hat.
In a video interview with eWEEK, Congdon explains what his job is all about and how he deals with the same challenges facing most of his peers. Congdon also has some unique challenges and one of them is the fact that Red Hat is an open-source vendor, and as such, employees will tend to prefer open-source solutions. In many cases and wherever possible, Congdon said that he will choose an open-source solution, but there are situations where he has a business case to use something else.
