Most common security acronyms explained

By DJ Schleen on March 02, 2020 security

8 minute read time

SAST, DAST, CSA, OSSM, SCA? What do these acronyms mean, what exactly do they do, and why does it matter?
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Gartner: You Must Assess Overall Software Health and Welfare

By Katie McCaskey on February 24, 2020 Gartner

4 minute read time

Gartner reports that mature organizations are expanding open-source management to include health assessment by default.
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A More Secure Web Needs Developers, Defenders, Advocates, and OSS

By Katie McCaskey on September 13, 2019 security

2 minute read time

The largest gathering of Infosec professionals met in Washington, D.C. to discuss the future of web security. Open source software is at the core of it.
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Development Velocity Is a Surprisingly Good Thing, Says Researchers

By Katie McCaskey on August 13, 2019 open source governance

2 minute read time

Organizations with DevOps culture produce high frequency release schedules and stronger MTTU (mean time to update) response scores, to the benefit of all.
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What Toyota Unlocked Decades Ago Drives Software Supply Chain Management Today

By Katie McCaskey on August 05, 2019 open source governance

3 minute read time

Toyota developed a vehicle production framework, still in use today, that shapes contemporary software supply chain management, too.
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Free Software, But No Free Lunch

By Katie McCaskey on July 25, 2019 security

2 minute read time

Today's threat surface is the software itself. How can Fortune 100 companies and others protect themselves? One security practice is counterintuitive.
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PyPi 'Cheese Shop' Malware Illustrates Software Supply Chain Risk Vector

By Katie McCaskey on July 22, 2019 dependency injection

3 minute read time

Malicious actors circumvented the PyPI package repo manager, a classic case demonstrating why understanding open source code dependencies is critical.
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A World of Infinite Choice in Open Source Software

3 minute read time

The 2019 Software Supply Chain Report explains the development environment we're all living in and what we can learn from exemplar dev teams.
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What 36,000 OSS Projects and 12,000 Commercial Dev Teams Taught Us About Secure Coding Practices

By Derek Weeks on June 25, 2019 devsecops

2 minute read time

Our 2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report Reveals Best Practices From 36,000 OSS Dev Teams and 12,000 commercial software engineering teams.
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