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Software Composition Analysis: How to Choose the Right Solution

By WhiteSource

Open source components have become an integral part of today’s software development processes. Open source enables companies to build better products, faster. After all why should you re-invent the wheel when you can just download it from GitHub? However, it’s still your responsibility to ensure that all of the components in your products are secure and compliant with your company’s policies.

The problem is that verifying that each and every open source component used is secure and complies with your company’s policies has become increasingly complex. That’s because information about open source components is scattered across hundreds of sources with varied levels of credibility, and most databases are not easily searchable.

So how can you get the control you need over your open source usage? Through automation! And this is where Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools come in.

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Charlene O’Hanlon

Charlene O’Hanlon is Chief Operating Officer at Techstrong Group and Editor at Large at Techstrong Media. She is an award-winning journalist serving the technology sector for 20 years as content director, executive editor and managing editor for numerous technology-focused sites including DevOps.com, CRN, The VAR Guy, ACM Queue and Channel Partners. She is also a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences.

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