SOFTWARE COMPOSITION ANALYSIS
Getting Started with Software Composition Analysis
What You Need to Know
Zeroing in on answers to the right questions and understanding your organization’s scale of compliance and security tolerance are keys to laying a solid foundation for a robust open source management strategy.
WHAT COMPANIES SHOULD BE ASKING
High Level Organization Questions
- Who wrote the code?
- Where in your organization is the code deployed?
- Have you uncovered license compliance and security issues?
- Have the issues been remediated?
- What is your ongoing, repeatable process for managing open source?
Questions by Role
Developers
- What is being shipped externally to customers and third-parties?
- What open source packages are you using?
- Do we have redundant or outdated technologies?
Legal and Security Team
- What are the open source disclosures for each of your products?
- Are you compliant with open source license obligations?
- Which applications contain known license compliance risks or security vulnerabilities?
Engineering Management
- Where are we using open source across the company?
- What is the impact of known vulnerabilities?
- Have scheduled remediation actions been completed?
Third Parties and Suppliers
- What open source/commercial packages are in these binaries?
- Have known security issues been resolved?
- Is there compliance with all third-party licenses?
DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO OPEN SOURCE MANAGEMENT
Take the next step and determine your company’s open source management approach:
Compliance, Security, or just enough of both.
| Compliance Centric | Vulnerability Centric |
|---|---|
| Primary concern is IP risk | Primary focus is security risk and components with vulnerabilities |
| Include standard process for OS management and strict outcomes | Organizations allow for more ad-hoc analysis |
| Complex fixes for remediation | Typically have upgrade-based fixes |
| Forward looking organization | Manages past and present while protecting the future |
THE REVENERA COMPLIANCE AND SECURITY DIFFERENCE
- Easy on-ramp to automated scans and analysis
- Protect your IP and avoid legal risks
- Integrate open source security into your build process
- Easily create a Bill of Materials
- Continued monitoring of your deployed products and assets
- Proactive vulnerability alerts
- Recommended remediation actions
- Security of an on-premise solution
- Deliver secure products to your customers
Resources
White Paper
Risky OSS: How Regulated Industries Can Secure the Software Supply Chain
This whitepaper reviews the state of OSS, four management use cases, and best practices and solutions to help security and legal teams in highly regulated industries. Access now to learn how you can confidently mitigate rising supply chain risk.
Data Sheet
OSS Inspector Plugin
Ensure your code is secure and compliant by effortlessly managing open source dependencies directly in your IDE.
Webinar
The Beginner’s Guide to Managing Open Source Software
Join this beginner’s guide to OSS, SCA, OSPOs, and SBOMs to get started on your open source journey. In this productive webinar session by Revenera’s open source expert, Alex Rybak.
Webinar
Setting up your OSS Management process
Join our expert team as they walk you through how to setup a comprehensive OSS Management program to address both software supply chain security and legal compliance, in this live webinar.
Webinar
Mitigating Risks in Open Source and Software Supply Chains: A Global Outlook
Learn about the latest regulation changes in the US and EU. Particularly what’s changing in the world of Open Source and how to navigate their legal rights and responsibilities in this Revenera webinar.
Webinar
2024 Software Security and Compliance Predictions
It’s time to discuss the hottest trends for 2024 in software composition analysis and software supply chain security. Register and attend this must-watch webinar and get a jumpstart on what to prepare for in the year ahead.
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