Open source code is a vital aspect of modern development. It allows developers to increase their application’s functionality, while reducing overall development time. However, the system isn’t perfect. The nature of third party software and it’s dependencies often creates opportunity for security vulnerabilities to lurk in libraries and downloads.
Modern applications are hugely dependent on open-source software. 80 percent of most organizations’ apps and code base is now open source, in some cases more. While this is great for swift development and innovation, it increases the possibility of vulnerabilities arising that bad actors can exploit, and it expands the potential attack surface.
GitHub's Push Protection is now free for all public repositories, a significant milestone for open-source security! Find out the key points you need to keep in mind before using it to safeguard your code repositories.
In the cloud native world, open source solutions are popular and widely used. Velero, an open source software, is quickly becoming a standard for Kubernetes backup and has been pulled over 100M times from Docker Hub! It is the most popular choice amongst Kubernetes community for backup and recovery. In a recent episode of TFiR, Swapnil Bhartiya sits down with Sathya Sankaran, Chief Operating Officer at CloudCasa by Catalogic, to talk about the power and potential of open source ecosystem.
The GNU General Public License (GPL) is one of the most widely used open source software licenses. It was created by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to protect the GNU’s software from being made proprietary. The GPL emphasizes the principles of software freedom and promotes the sharing of knowledge and collaboration. It is a copyleft license that requires any modified versions or derivative works to be licensed under the GPL.
One often-overlooked risk in the bustling ecosystem of open-source software are vulnerabilities introduced through software dependencies. We mention this because today, a malicious actor took over a RubyGems package name with more than two million downloads. Mend.io technology detected the package before it could be used for an attack, but the case of ‘gemnasium-gitlab-service‘ serves as an important reminder of the risk of neglecting dependency management.
Companies are increasingly concerned about the security of applications built on open source components, especially when they’re involved in mergers and acquisitions. Just like copyright for works of art, each piece of open source software has a license that states legally binding conditions for its use.
Bytesafe is a secure package management solution that helps organizations of all sizes protect their software supply chains from known vulnerabilities and other threats. In our commitment to enhance the security of open-source ecosystems, today we are excited to announce the availability of Bytesafe Community Edition, a free and open source version of our software that is available.
