The use of open source software with developing proprietary software products or electronic devices can present serious implications for evaluating the value of the business in an investment or acquisition conte...
Risk explanation: Usually, open-source software has some form of licensing agreement tied to it. These agreements describe how you can use and distribute the code. With a permissive license, you can use the code freely, add it to your proprietary application, and use that application commerciall...
Learn more about how Red Hat helps organizationsbuild, code and monitor for a trusted software supply chain. About the author David Mair Senior Manager, Product Security Supply Chain David Mair started with Red Hat Linux while in college. After graduating from Eastern Kentucky University, he starte...
With the fast-paced development timelines in today’s business world, it is rare for organizations to develop completely original software code. Instead, they choose to brave open source software risks and use open source frameworks and third-party components. The result is a dramatically faster de...
Be it Linux or Tensorflow, the open source community plays a huge role in taking a cutting edge technology mainstream. For instance, Tensorflow accelerated the popularity of machine learning after it was open sourced in 2015. According to Microsoft, the open source software comes with multiplebenef...
this makes applications built with open source libraries even more prone to vulnerabilities. Attackers can disguise themselves as contributors to the open source library, and use that window to sneak malware into the project, unsuspected. If many teams are using the affected project then many applic...
That said, Lorenc, who is also a member of the OpenSSF Technical Advisory Committee, doesn't overlook the inherent risks that come with using open source software, especially in terms of sustainability and liability. Although the source code might be free, there is no such thing as a free ...
“It’s incredibly important for organizations to have visibility into the quality of open source software that supports business applications,” said Lev Lesokhin, EVP of Strategy and Analytics at CAST and co-author of the Software Intelligence Report. “As we saw with the Struts vulnerabilities ...
Two months ago I attended Eric Drexler’s launch ofMSEP.one. It’s open source software, written by people with professional game design experience, intended to catalyze better designs for atomically precise manufacturing (or generative nanotechnology, as he now calls it). ...
Microsoft has also been much more liberal in providing evaluation software, making it almost as easy to acquire Microsoft’s products as it is to acquire open source products. Macromedia recently announced a non-proprietary deployment license for its Flex server, which was driven, in part...