Unmanaged open source code could put companies at risk

More than half the code found in commercial software packages is open source, but if it isn’t properly tracked businesses might be in the dark on the number of vulnerabilities and license compliance issues that exist in their applications. Software supply chain specialist Flexera has released a report looking into the state of open source license compliance, based on analyzing data from 134 software audits. On average, the Flexera audit teams find one issue within every 32,873 lines of code. That might sound like a small number, but most applications now have well over 1,000,000 lines of code. Flexera discovered… [Continue Reading]