Companies are only aware of 17 percent of their open source components

A new report based on data from more than 100 open source audit projects conducted in 2021 finds that companies are only aware of 17 percent of the open source components they use, an increase of just four percent in the past year. The 2022 State of the Software Supply Chain Report from Revenera also shows that risks are increasing. Numbers of the most severe issues, priority level P1, have grown six percent over last year's findings. Lower priority issues, however, have surged, secondary priority issues (P2) and the lowest risk (P3) issues grew by 50 percent and 34 percent,… [Continue Reading]