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November 2023

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Top Open Source Licenses Explained

Nov 30, 2023 By AJ Starita In Mend

An open source license is a binding legal contract between author and user that declares the certain conditions in which a piece of software can be used, which is especially relevant in commercial applications. This license is what turns software components into open source components, allowing developers to use that software so long as they keep the specific terms and conditions laid out in the license. There are a lot of open source licenses, over 200 in fact.

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Grow Your Business with a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) using Open Source Technologies.

Nov 28, 2023 By UTMStack In UTMStack
Keeping IT Services profitable can be challenging, equipment and software costs increase, margins suffer and customers cancel. The solution resides in the economy of horizontal scale. Imagine what could happen if your existing customers contracted two times more services from your business, would that help? Sell them something every business needs: cybersecurity, launch your own Security Operations Center, and close new profitable deals. Why UTMStack and not something else? The answer is simple: UTMStack is free and Open source and very intuitive, so you can hit the ground up and running in no time.
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Top 5 Open Source Security Risks IT Leaders Must Know

Nov 27, 2023 By Natalie Tischler In Veracode

Lurking in the open source software (OSS) that pervades applications around the world are open source security risks technology leaders must be aware of. Software is one of technology’s most vulnerable subsets with over 70% of applications containing security flaws. Here are the open source security risks IT leaders must be aware of to protect technology and help it scale safely.

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Audited vs. automated: What your automated open source tool isn't seeing

Nov 21, 2023 By Don Mulrenan In Synopsys
Black Duck® introduced the concept of managing open source, and the licensing and security risks that come with it, back in 2002. The process and the products have matured over the last two decades. Open source management has now become nearly as commonplace as source code control, whether development shops are using tools such as Black Duck or simply maintaining a spreadsheet of what is in their code.
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7 Ways to Strike Balance Between Technical Debt and Security Posture in The World of Open Source

Nov 17, 2023 By Karan Goenka and Michael Fischer In Arctic Wolf
Software development at the speed of business is a constant balance of tradeoffs, and managing the risk of open-source software is one of the most emerging prominent examples. This is driven home by high-profile supply chain attacks such as the ones on SolarWinds, Log4J, and MoveIt. Each of these examples represents a different type of abuse, including.
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Beam OSS: Easily Make your Infra Private Using AWS SSM

Nov 7, 2023 By Entitle In Entitle
Beam is an OSS project that simplifies secure access to private infrastructure within non-public VPC environments. It replaces the traditional bastion host approach with AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for access, ensuring better security and user-friendliness, especially in dynamic environments with changing resources and multi-tenancy requirements. Beam eliminates the complexities of configuring SSM access, making it an accessible solution for various applications and environments while maintaining security best practices. Today Beam is available for AWS (SSM) and will expand to Google's Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP).
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