I have blogged before about the pervasiveness of open source in applications today. Synopsys and other organizations have been tracking its growth for years, particularly as it relates to the amount of open source code we find in the applications we scan. Our Black Duck On-Demand Audit team scans thousands of applications every year, mostly […]
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Open source is everywhere. Researchers have been tracking its growth for years, but because open source is now so pervasive, they are increasingly concerned about the security of applications built on the foundation of open source components. The only way an organization can be sure of the open source in its codebase, other than by […]
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Posted in Legal, Open Source Security, Software Composition Analysis | Comments Off on Software composition analysis & the secret ingredients for a successful M&A
There has been much buzz about the GDPR (Global Data Protection Regulation) set to go into effect in May of 2018. Black Duck discussed the topic in our legal track at the Black Duck FLIGHT 2017 user conference, where Daniel Hedley from Irwin Mitchell looked at how European companies are preparing for GDPR.
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