Open-source cybersecurity tools offer a prime solution for independent security experts, emerging businesses, and even medium to large enterprises aiming to tailor their security framework. These tools serve as a foundational platform for fostering security advancements, integrating proprietary software code and security automation scripts.

You don’t need us to tell you that open source software is becoming a very significant percentage of commercial software codebases. Open source components are free, stable, and enable you to focus your resources on the innovative and differentiated aspects of your work. But as the use of open source components increases, compliance with open source licenses has become a complex project of growing importance. So how can you stay on top of compliance and what tools are out there to help?

You may have heard that 1Password beta testers can sign into websites using passkeys stored in their vaults. We’re actively developing the internal library powering passkey authentication, and now we’re open-sourcing it!

It is not very often that we see cybersecurity vendors put aside competitive differences and ambitions to work towards a common goal that benefits the entire cybersecurity community. The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) has shown to be an example of a productive industry-wide collaboration to facilitate a more secure environment for businesses, governments and individuals all over the globe.

In the pursuit of advancing security and transparency in the digital asset industry, Fireblocks has published our MPC-CMP code as open source under a limited license, along with the rest of our MPC library. As the demand for digital asset custody, tokenization, and Web3 among retail and financial institutions continues to rise, Fireblocks MPC-CMP has proven to be the most secure and reliable key management protocol.

We are excited to announce the inaugural edition of the Mend.io Open-Source Reliability Leaderboard! Powered by data from Renovate, the wildly popular open-source dependency management tool, the Leaderboard presents the top packages in terms of reliability across three of the most widely used languages.

Malicious npm packages and their dangers have been a frequent topic of discussion — whether it’s hundreds of command-and-control Cobalt Strike malware packages, typosquatting, or general malware published to the npm registry (including PyPI and others). To help developers and maintainers defend against these security risks, Snyk published a guide to npm security best practices.

According to Mend.io research, the Apache 2.0 license is the most popular license of its kind, as 30% of open source licenses currently in use is Apache. Owing to its frequent use, it’s important to understand how the license works, its benefits, limitations, implications, and requirements. To help you, here are ten frequently asked questions about it.

The 2023 OSSRA report indicates that organizations are failing to patch high-risk vulnerabilities; our vulnerability deep-dive shows how to evaluate your own risk. According to the 2023 “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report, 96% of commercial code contains open source material. In fact, 76% of the code that Black Duck® Audit Services scanned in 2022 was open source.

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.