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When's the Right Time for an Open Source Audit?

How much do you really know about your open source usage? Can you identify what open source components you’re using? How about which licenses are in play and whether you’re compliant? Do you have a good sense of how many open source security vulnerabilities are in your code base and how to remediate them? Chances are, if you’re like most organizations, you can’t answer all of these questions.

Software Development Life Cycle: Finding a Model That Works

Waterfall. Agile. Scrum. Kanban. Lean. These words are often thrown around when talking about the software development life cycle (SDLC), but what do they mean and how do they relate to each other? In this blog, we’ll take a look at the evolution of the software development life cycle and consider several current trends.

WhiteSource Attribution Report: New Features

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of WhiteSource’s new attribution report. Our attribution report gives you insight into the compliance requirements of your open source components, including detailed data on your licenses, copyrights, and notices. WhiteSource’s new attribution report features numerous enhancements to the overall user experience.

CI/CD and the Promise of Agile Transformation

Continuous integration/continuous delivery, more commonly known as CI/CD, promises to help software companies become more agile by delivering software faster and more reliably. The goal of CI/CD is to reduce software development and delivery timelines from months or weeks down to days or even hours. It does this by pushing frequent updates and fixes regardless of size and using automation tools to help the process run smoothly.

June 2020 Open Source Security Vulnerabilities Snapshot

It’s time for June’s open source vulnerabilities snapshot, your monthly overview of everything new in the fast-paced world of open source security vulnerabilities. In hopes of giving you this month-at-a-glance summary of current trends in the open source ecosystem, our trusted research team reviewed the new open source security vulnerabilities published in May and collected by the WhiteSource database.

AppSec: Pushing Left, Like A Boss

With incident response and penetration testing currently receiving most of our application security dollars, it would appear that industry has decided to treat the symptom instead of the disease. “Pushing left” refers to starting security earlier in the SDLC; addressing the problem throughout the process. From scanning your code with a vulnerability scanner to red team exercises, developer education programs and bug bounties, this talk will show you how to ‘push left', like a boss.

Use Open Source freely without compromising on security or agility

WhiteSource provides a powerful yet simple solution for companies that need to secure and manage their open source components in their applications. As the only enterprise-grade solution that is focused exclusively on open source management, WhiteSource is trusted by the 25 of Fortune 100 companies.

Forrester's State of Application Security, 2020: Key Takeaways

In The State of Application Security, 2020, Forrester predicts application vulnerabilities will continue to be the most common external attack method. Because of this, organizations are urged to continue testing early in the software development life cycle (SDLC), implementing auto-remediation for security vulnerabilities, and shoring up production protections.

DevSecOps vs. SecDevOps: A Rose by Any Other Name?

The terms DevSecOps and SecDevOps are often -- but not always -- used interchangeably. So is there any real difference between the two terms or is it all just semantics? Let’s look at how the role of security has changed as the software development life cycle (SDLC) has evolved to explore whether there’s really any difference between these two words.

Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing: Key Takeaways

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing 2020 reports a 50% increase in the number of their end-user client conversations about DevSecOps and AST (Application Security Testing) tools, in 2019. According to the report, users continue to adopt DevOps methods like integrating security into the software development lifecycle from the earliest stages of development.