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The Risks Associated with OSS and How to Mitigate Them

Due to the need for rapid development and innovation, developers are increasingly turning to open-source frameworks and libraries to accelerate software development life cycles (SDLC). The use of open-source code by developers grew 40% and is expected to expand 14% year on year through 2023.

A critical part of the problem is that legacy application security uses an outside-in model where security sits outside of the software and SDLC.

For example, a component with a "high" severity vulnerability may be acceptable in an application that manages data that is neither critical nor sensitive and that has a limited attack surface.

It is no surprise that automating some application security processes improves an organization's ability to analyze and prioritize threats and vulnerabilities.