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Mend.io has proactively upgraded 184 open source organizations and GitHub users to the Mend Renovate Community (OSS) plan, with no request required. The upgrade covers about 3,000 repositories with roughly 4 million combined GitHub stars. Maintainers get higher resource limits, more concurrency, and access to Merge Confidence.

The NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) is a set of fundamental, outcome-based practices that integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Documented in NIST SP 800-218, it helps organizations reduce vulnerabilities, prevent recurrences, and establish a common language for secure development. The SSDF outlines dozens of tasks grouped into four high-level categories.

The speed of AI integration is rapidly outpacing corporate governance capabilities. Generative AI is now embedded in development workflows and business applications, while agentic AI can make decisions and take actions with limited human intervention. That governance gap is becoming harder to ignore. Gartner predicts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 because of escalating costs, unclear business value, or inadequate risk controls.