Open source has become nearly ubiquitous with Agile and DevOps. It offers development teams the ability to quickly and easily scale their software development life cycles (SDLC). At the same time, open-source software (OSS) components can introduce security vulnerabilities, licensing issues, and development workflow challenges. Open-source risks include both licensing challenges and cyber threats from poorly written code that leads to security gaps. With the number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) growing rapidly, organizations must define actionable OSS policies, monitor OSS components, and institute continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) controls to improve OSS vulnerability remediation without slowing release cycles.
OSS Impact on Software Development
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). Use of open-source code by developers grew 40% and is expected to expand 14% year on year through 2023.
Agile and DevOps enable development teams to release new features multiple times a day, making software…
