Much more Open Source risks in Enterprise Software than expected
Companies use much more open source software than they think
- almost ALL audits finds open source (i.e. in M&A or OEM due diligence)
- >90% finds unknown or unclear open source code licenses
- 50% of code contains GPL
- 33% of application code in average is open source
- in average 100+ unique open source components in each application
- but sometimes 1.000s or even 10.000s
Most companies have no open source management
- less than 50% of (larger) IT orgs have effective open-source governance (Gartner)
- and much less of the smaller + medium size orgs
- those with open source reporting only know aprox. 45% of used open source components
Resulting in unclear risks!
- Security = which components have which vulnerabilities?
- Legal = which licenses are used + how does this match with code usage?
- Operational = which version is used + how old are they?
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