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Open Source Ecosystem Gains New Support for Securing the World's Most Critical and Pervasive Software

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Open source software (OSS) has become pervasive in data centers, consumer devices and services, representing its value among technologists and businesses alike.

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  • Open source software (OSS) has become pervasive in data centers, consumer devices and services, representing its value among technologists and businesses alike.
  • The Scorecard is gaining adoption for automating analysis and trust decisions on the security posture of open source projects.
  • "Like many of our customers, ShiftLeft has benefited greatly from leveraging open source software to build our differentiated products and features.
  • The OpenSSF is committed to collaboration and working both upstream and with existing communities to advance open source security for all.

Knowledge Management Software Market growth in Application Software | Emerging Trends, Company Risk, and Key Executives | Technavio

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Friday, July 23, 2021

Learn more about the factors assisting the growth of the market, download a free sample: https://www.technavio.com/talk-to-us?report=IRTNTR70762

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  • Learn more about the factors assisting the growth of the market, download a free sample: https://www.technavio.com/talk-to-us?report=IRTNTR70762
    Knowledge Management Software Market 2021-2025: Vendor Analysis and Scope
    Some of the major vendors of the knowledge management software market in the Application Software industry include Batia Infotech, GemShelf Inc., Guru Technologies Inc., International Business Machines Corp., KnowMax Software Pvt.
  • The report also covers the following areas:
    The growing emphasis on personalized learning is likely to emerge as one of the primary drivers of the market.
  • However, operational challenges associated with software may threaten the growth of the market.
  • Backed with competitive intelligence and benchmarking, our research reports on the knowledge management software market are designed to provide entry support, customer profile & M&As as well as go-to-market strategy support.

Applied Business Software Announces SOC 2 Compliance

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

LONG BEACH, Calif., June 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Business Software, Inc., ("ABS"), leader in loan servicing and origination software in the lending industry, announced today the receipt of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 audit certification.

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  • LONG BEACH, Calif., June 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Business Software, Inc., ("ABS"), leader in loan servicing and origination software in the lending industry, announced today the receipt of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 audit certification.
  • The comprehensive and complex endeavor attests Applied Business Software's current operational protocols meet the highest of security standards.
  • Applied Business Software continues to be the leader in the private lending software market, with customers across the globe.
  • Applied Business Software is a market leader and global provider of software systems and solutions to the lending industry.

Glaring Gap in Open Source Security: Veracode Finds 80 percent of Libraries Used in Software Are Never Updated

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Open source libraries constantly evolve so what appears secure today may no longer be so tomorrow, potentially creating a significant security risk for software vendors and users.

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  • Open source libraries constantly evolve so what appears secure today may no longer be so tomorrow, potentially creating a significant security risk for software vendors and users.
  • Chris Eng, Chief Research Officer at Veracode, explains, The vast majority of todays applications use open source code.
  • Despite the dynamic nature of the software landscape, developers are often not updating open source libraries after including them in software applications.
  • The growing popularity of open source software, combined with increasingly demanding development cycles, results in a higher propensity to software vulnerabilities.

Linux Foundation Announces Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Industry Standard, Research, Training, and Tools to Improve Cybersecurity Practices

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Thursday, June 17, 2021

An SBOM accounts for the open source software components contained in an application that details their quality, license, and security attributes.

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  • An SBOM accounts for the open source software components contained in an application that details their quality, license, and security attributes.
  • SPDX - a Linux Foundation Project, is the de-facto open standard for communicating SBOM information, including open source software components, licenses, and known security vulnerabilities.
  • The recent US Executive Order on Cybersecurity emphasizes SBOMs, and this survey will help identify industry gaps in SBOM applications.
  • The Linux Foundation is also announcing a free, online training course, Generating a Software Bill of Materials (LFC192) .

Finalists Announced for Inaugural Sonatype Elevate Awards

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Sonatype is the leader in developer-friendly, full-spectrum software supply chain management providing organizations total control of their cloud-native development lifecycles, including third-party open source code, first-party source code, infrastructure as code, and containerized code.

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  • Sonatype is the leader in developer-friendly, full-spectrum software supply chain management providing organizations total control of their cloud-native development lifecycles, including third-party open source code, first-party source code, infrastructure as code, and containerized code.
  • The company supports 70% of the Fortune 100 and its commercial and open source tools are trusted by 15 million developers around the world.
  • With a vision to transform the way the world innovates, Sonatype helps organizations of all sizes build higher quality software that's more aligned with business needs, more maintainable, and more secure.
  • For more information, please visit Sonatype.com , or connect with us on Facebook , Twitter , or LinkedIn.

ShiftLeft Brings Developer-First Security to the Open Source Security Foundation

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

ShiftLeft, Inc. , a leader in application security, today announced it has been accepted into the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) , a cross-industry collaboration that brings together technology leaders to improve the security of OSS.

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  • ShiftLeft, Inc. , a leader in application security, today announced it has been accepted into the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) , a cross-industry collaboration that brings together technology leaders to improve the security of OSS.
  • ShiftLeft joins the OpenSSF to further its commitment to advance supply chain security for open source software and the entire technology and business ecosystem.
  • Developers rely on open source and open source libraries as valuable tools in building modern, scalable applications.
  • Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the worlds leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware.

Mavenir Opens a New Development Centre for Open RAN Radio Software in UK

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

b"Mavenir, the Network Software Provider building the future of networks with cloud-native software that runs on any cloud and transforms the way the world connects, announced today the opening of a Development Centre in Swindon, United Kingdom to develop Open RAN Radio software.

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  • b"Mavenir, the Network Software Provider building the future of networks with cloud-native software that runs on any cloud and transforms the way the world connects, announced today the opening of a Development Centre in Swindon, United Kingdom to develop Open RAN Radio software.
  • The investment is part of a larger programme to increase Mavenir\xe2\x80\x99s presence and contributions in the UK and follows the acquisition of ip.access and the opening of the Centre of Excellence for Multi Radio Access Technology in Cambridge .\nThe new Centre in Swindon is dedicated to software and system design for Open RAN Radio Units and is intended to broaden the future development of Open RAN-based systems.
  • One of the key projects is the development of an Open-Source software for the Control Board and management plane of the Open RAN O-RAN 7.2 compatible Remote Radio Unit (RRU).
  • This software is intended to be made available to all RRU manufacturers to accelerate the availability of Open RAN RRUs in different versions and frequencies while providing a common management interface.

Armory Joins Continuous Delivery Foundation As Premier Member

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

b'SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open-source software foundation that seeks to improve the world\'s capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced that Armory has joined the CDF as a premier member.

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  • b'SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open-source software foundation that seeks to improve the world\'s capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced that Armory has joined the CDF as a premier member.
  • Armory adds enterprise-grade proprietary features and support to the open-source Spinnaker project under the CDF.\nSpinnaker is a free and open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery software platform originally developed by Netflix and extended by Google.
  • Armory has been a General member since 2019.\n"We are moving up to Premier membership because the CD Foundation is the right governance model for continuous delivery software in general and Spinnaker specifically.
  • Amory\'s enterprise-grade version of Spinnaker adds enterprise-grade features that make software delivery continuous, collaborative, scalable, and safe.

Adobe and Entertainment Technology Center Join the Academy Software Foundation

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Thursday, March 11, 2021

LOS ANGELES, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) , the preeminent foundation for open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, today announced that Adobe has joined the Foundation as a Premier member and Entertainment Technology Center@USC (ETC) has joined as an Associate Member.

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  • LOS ANGELES, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) , the preeminent foundation for open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, today announced that Adobe has joined the Foundation as a Premier member and Entertainment Technology Center@USC (ETC) has joined as an Associate Member.
  • We look forward to their contributions to the Academy Software Foundation as our projects continue to gain momentum," said Rob Bredow, SVP, Executive Creative Director and Head of Industrial Light & Magic, and Governing Board Chair of Academy Software Foundation.
  • ETC's commitment to understanding the impact of emerging technology on all aspects of the media and entertainment industry are well aligned with the Foundation.
  • Launched in 2018 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Linux Foundation, the Academy Software Foundation provides a world-class home for open source software developers to share resources and collaborate on technologies for image creation, visual effects, animation and sound.