The software supply chain drives modern innovation, with open source software (OSS) at its core. While OSS accelerates progress, it also introduces risks such as vulnerabilities, licensing complexities, and cryptographic weaknesses that can threaten security and compliance. Managing these risks effectively requires a shift from fragmented strategies to a unified approach.
When teams work in isolation, addressing OSS risks becomes inefficient and prone to errors. Developers, security teams, procurement professionals, and executives often tackle risks from different angles, leading to duplicated efforts, misaligned priorities, or overlooked issues. This disjointed approach can result in undetected vulnerabilities, late-stage licensing conflicts, and delays during incident response. 360º software intelligence empowers every team to contribute to a secure and efficient software supply chain.
Developers are at the forefront of OSS integration but often lack the tools to assess risks comprehensively. With shared visibility, developers can identify insecure or outdated dependencies before integration, understand licensing obligations to avoid costly rework or legal exposure, and build software that adheres to secure-by-design principles from day one.
Security teams need actionable intelligence to proactively manage risks. Shared visibility enables them to track vulnerabilities across all software components, evaluate cryptographic algorithms to ensure compliance and quantum-readiness and respond faster to incidents with detailed inventories of dependencies.
Procurement teams often lack insight into the OSS components embedded in purchased software. Shared visibility empowers them to assess vendor software for potential risks, ensure compliance with industry standards, and negotiate contracts with greater confidence in the software’s security posture.
At SCANOSS, we offer solutions designed to bridge these gaps with comprehensive OSS Inventories with detection that surfaces both declared and undeclared OSS for a full view of dependencies. Our tools provide enhanced cryptographic analysis that ensures compliance and readiness for quantum-safe security, and actionable SBOMs enriched with insights to support informed decision-making across all teams, and more.
Modern software supply chains demand collaboration, adopting a unified 360º software intelligence approach, that can not only address immediate challenges but also build resilience and foster innovation for the future.