Automation is an important element amid an ongoing cybersecurity skills gap. Anyone who works in the cybersecurity field knows that there has been a skills shortage going on for years. And unfortunately, there are no signs that the gap between demand and supply will close anytime soon. This is a frightening scenario for security leaders and their organizations, because the attacks and attackers keep getting more sophisticated and the threat landscape more complex.

Many organizations still need to find the Log4j vulnerability in their environment and address the risk. The news about Log4Shell, the vulnerability impacting the Apache Log4j software library, first burst onto the scene and became a headache for admins everywhere in December 2021. But the fall-out is far from over.

The way companies build software solutions has dramatically changed in the past few years. Now more companies use microservices architecture, as it provides more efficiency, resiliency, and agility, to develop and release apps quickly and more frequently. This approach has enabled developers to utilize more third-party containers and resources to develop efficiently working applications. It also means that less code of a software tool is managed and owned by an organization directly.

What’s the difference between an SBOM verse SCA tools? Allow us to explain. Software bill of materials (SBOMs) have been garnering a lot of attention as of late, especially since the 2021 Biden Administration executive order mandating that organizations doing business with the government provide a detailed inventory of all components that make up an application to improve cybersecurity.

As valuable as software is for business, it’s also a source of continuous risk for organizations. A software risk assessment is essential to address these issues, which can leave an organization vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks, license compliance issues and other problems.

Software composition analysis tools (SCA) are not created equal. A big pain point is that because they’re limited in what they see, developers get caught in a sea of false positives, which slows down their response time. That’s not the case with Rezilion’s SCA. Our tool remediates any significant issues it uncovers throughout the SDLC. Here’s what you can expect: Full visibility.

Today we are excited to announce the expansion of our software supply chain security offering with a series of new features that will enhance our ability to detect, prioritize, and remediate open-source software risk. These features set Rezilion apart from SCA (software composition analysis) tools on the market and allow us to provide significantly wider visibility into an organization’s risk – while also dramatically reducing the amount of work required to eliminate it.

According to recent research, Rezilion’s vulnerability scanner was 12% more accurate at identifying existing vulnerabilities vs. industry standard (94% vs. 82% average precision). Vulnerability scanners and software composition analysis (SCA) tools are an inherent part of the secure development life cycle (SDLC) process.

In this final post of a series on software-related risks, we take a look software license compliance and other non-vulnerability risk. Not all software risk has to do with vulnerabilities and the security threats that can come from them. Organizations need to be aware of their licensing requirements and status on various software dependencies, including open source software, because they could be out of compliance if the software license has expired.