Black Duck by Synopsys on Tuesday released the 2018 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis report, which details new concerns about software vulnerabilities amid a surge in the use of open source components in both proprietary and open source software.
The report provides an in-depth look at the state of open source security, license compliance and code-quality risk in commercial software. That view shows consistent growth over the last year, with the Internet of Things and other spaces showing similar problems.
This is the first report Black Duck has issued since Synopsys acquired it late last year. The Synopsys Center for Open Source Research & Innovation conducted the research and examined findings from anonymized data drawn from more than 1,100 commercial code bases audited in 2017.