Companies drive their digital future through open innovation and benefit from shared knowledge and development capacities as well as strategic, open development and innovation alliances. They strengthen their digital sovereignty, reduce the vendor lock-in effect and improve IT security, quality and transparency through open source communities.
Experienced developers do not write their code from scratch, but use open source for development. Reasons are to improve productivity, shorten development time and reduce development costs. AI is providing more and more support in the creation of software. Trained by code from open source repositories, high-quality code can be generated at lightning speed.
It is important to respect intellectual property and license requirements. For legally compliant use, all open source components in a software system must be known and continuously checked for security vulnerabilities.
President Biden’s Executive Order 14028 is designed to enhance software supply chain security and strengthen overall cybersecurity posture across both the public and private sectors in the United States. It requires any company doing business with the Federal Government to provide a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for the products they sell. Further, US manufacturing companies selling their products “with digital elements” into the European Union must adhere to the cybersecurity requirements of the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
An efficient open source management framework and the use of suitable processes and tool chains such as Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Software Asset Management (SAM) are prerequisites for the legally compliant and sustainable use of OSS. Further, it is critical to ensure that all intellectual property in your supply chain is professionally managed and conformant to existing standards such as ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 5962.
Bitsea supports you in all aspects of open source management so that your company is protected from a lack of compliance and cyber attacks on the software supply chain.
Protection against risks
Compliance
Protection against legal risks such as third-party intellectual property (IP) and licence obligations.
Cybersecurity
Protection against security gaps and vulnerabilities in software supply chains: Continuous monitoring.
Export restrictions
Many components, often with algorithms for encryption, are subject to strict export restrictions with significant penalties.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI systems, trained by code fragments from open source repositories, often generate code without regard to and without mentioning copyrights and licenses.
License changes
Some open source projects change the underlying permissive license to a more restrictive license when an update is released. This requires continuous monitoring of the components and versions used.
Policy protection
68% of companies have no internal policy regarding the use of open source. The majority of developers are aware of less than 10% of the open source content in their products.
Eliminate uncontrolled use of open source to avoid copyright infringement, litigation, security vulnerabilities and operational risks. Meet license obligations and avoid sanctions or penalties.
Bitsea's services
Benefit from sustainable open source security, risk and compliance management.
Consulting
Bitsea advises customers comprehensively on open source strategy, open source governance, open source processes, and toolchains and offers both Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and code scanning as managed services. We offer extensive workshops and training courses to educate your teams.
Development
Bitsea builds and operates open source toolchains and the associated infrastructure independently of tools and customized to clients needs. If required, our developers can customize interfaces, tools or reports.
Audits
Our experienced Bitsea audit team identifies and monitors operational OSS risks and helps you ensure source code compliance. Bitsea uses a multi-factor approach to Software Composition Analysis (SCA). You receive a transparent software bill of materials (SBOM) of components, security vulnerabilities, licenses and license obligations. We monitor your entire supply chain and also help your suppliers to provide the data you need. The focus is on automation and the reuse of already-curated data. We provide support with legal issues together with our wide partner network.
OpenChain
As an OpenChain partner, we provide support in the preparation and introduction of an open source license compliance program in accordance with ISO/IEC 5230 and advise on OpenChain Security Assurance in accordance with ISO/IEC 18974.
Embedded Systems
The size of the system is a major cost driver in the analysis. Particularly with embedded systems such as Linux or frameworks such as Android, the effort and time involved can often be reduced to a fraction by intelligently tailoring the object of investigation. Bitsea has developed an automated process to identify relevant sources in advance and eliminate unused source code. This saves time and costs.
Software Composition Analysis
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Software is built by components from various origins. Bitsea's comprehensive approach will help you to understand the roots of your code.
Full Forensic
Analysis
Analysis of source code, binary files, archives,containers, build dependencies, subcomponents, patches, modified and partial matches to open source components.
Snippet Matching
Identification of copy pasted code ("snippets") and modifications inside proprietary code.
Security Vulnerabilities
With more than 20,000 documented in 2024 alone, software vulnerabilities are at an all-time high. Monitor vulnerabilities proactively and continuously. Get actionable alerts for newly discovered vulnerabilities in current and shipped products.
Compliance
Library
Get access to Bitsea's 150 TB on-premise database. Bitsea uses the largest, most comprehensive open source library with more than 14 million open source components. It maps over 400,000 component versions to vulnerabilities.
Creation of SBOM
95% of mainstream IT organizations leverage nontrivial open source software assets within their mission-critical IT portfolio. Organizations are aware of less than 10% of their open source use. Bitsea's experts have analyzed more than 100,000,000 lines of code (LOC) to create a complete Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).
Expert Advice
Discover open source obligations with our highly trained expert auditors.
Training & Coaching
Bitsea offers open source license compliance seminars for business managers, project managers and developers.
M&A Software
Due Diligence
Bitsea's independent expert assessment and advice is standardized, fair and objective.
Automation
Automation of the tool chain, integration into existing infrastructure, inventory, cataloging and reuse.
OpenChain
Open source license compliance according to ISO/IEC 5230.
Identification of
Export
Restrictions
Many components, often with algorithms for encryption, are subject to strict export restrictions with significant penalties.
Benefits
· Open source security and compliance management
· Transparent list of licenses and license obligations
· Experienced audit team
· Identification and monitoring of operational OSS risks
· Ensuring the legal compliance of your code
· Tracking, managing and securing your code
· Detection and monitoring of security vulnerabilities