In one corner: An open source community that constantly updates open source packages, making it hard to keep up with vulnerability information for each package. Finding accurate, up-to-date information about vulnerabilities is a real challenge.
In the other corner: AppSec teams using outmoded legacy tools to manage vulnerabilities and updates across thousands – or tens of thousands – of packages.
Manually mapping vulnerabilities across all the open source code used by your developers takes up a great deal of time and energy.
And the winner is: Cybercriminals, who see open source packages as a rich source of exploitable vulnerabilities and vehicles for creating malicious packages.
See how Siemens saves time and resources in scanning, identifying, and fixing open source vulnerabilities with Mend.io.
– Markus Leutner, Siemens Schweiz AG DevOps engineer for cloud solutions
Mend SCA identifies, maps, and analyzes open source vulnerabilities, enabling you to prioritize remediations based on application and enterprise risk.
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