📚 What To Look For in an Open Source Vulnerability Scanner

One of the top security concerns we hear from technology leaders is about the security of open source software (OSS) and cloud software development. An open source vulnerability scanner (for scanning OSS) helps you discover risk in the third-party code you use. However, just because a solution scans open source does not mean you are ultimately reducing security risk with it. Here is what to look for in an open source vulnerability scanner and security testing solution to find and fix vulnerabilities in OSS.   Background on Vulnerabilities in Open Source and What the Risk Looks Like  Before we can talk about what to look for in a scanning solution, we need to talk about the vulnerabilities the tools are looking for. Born in 1999, the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) was a product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made to be “the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data.” It represents an index of known vulnerabilities… ...