The security of open source software came under scrutiny in the wake of Heartbleed. A recent report from Coverity says open-source software is more secure than proprietary. The report provides more detail on the different programming languages and packages based on the scans of over 1500 projects comprising several hundred million lines of code. The question we need to ask: is the quality of current software efforts something we should accept? When it comes to breach, the reality is when, not if (read more on the detriment of our bias for breach prevention)”]