FossID Joins Forces with Snyk to Bring Security to Every Developer in the World
Exciting news! Today we are announcing that we are joining forces with Snyk! FossID’s mission has always been to help companies maximize their open source software adoption efficiency by equipping them with accurate, fast and automated Software Composition Analysis...
FossID SCA for Enterprise Product Update 21.2
A new, major, software update is now available for all customers and for evaluation purposes for prospects. The recent “21.2” release brings significant updates to the Software Composition Analysis tool for Enterprise, including improvements in the user interface,...
Open Source Preparations for M&A Transactions
Getting ready for open source due diligence as part of an M&A corporate transaction is not that hard or complex especially if you have an open source program that manages your open source usage, compliance and contribution. However, if you don’t have such a...
19 Guidelines for Free and Open Source Software Usage
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Open Source Compliance - Episode 8 Over a year ago, we launched a blog post series called “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Open Source Compliance” with the purpose of sharing best practices in open source compliance. This is the eight episode,...
FossID Product Update January 2021
We just launched a new product version of the FossID Software Composition Analysis tool for the enterprise. Apart from a few bug fixes it includes some notable feature additions to the dependency analysis, the report creation interface, and to how integration can be...
Using Artificial Intelligence in Open Source Audits
Open source auditing is a tedious process, where the auditor must produce a “bill of materials” (BoM) listing all the open source components used within a software product. Depending on the size and complexity of the software, the codebase being audited may contain...
Interview with Ibrahim Haddad on Software Composition Analysis Tools
Ibrahim Haddad is a well-known profile in the global open source community. His career started in the late nineties as a software developer focusing on open source software. Over two decades later, he is now Vice President of Strategic Programs at the Linux...
Guaranteed COVID-19-free due diligence with FossID
COVID-19 has had a great impact on M&A transactions and technical due diligence. Not only on the volume itself, but in the way that they are conducted. Quarantines and various measures of pandemic stopping regulations and activities have forced companies to...
Leveraging ORT from a commercial code scanner
FossID and OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) have recently started a collaboration to integrate ORT into FossID and make the FossID scanner available as a scanner in ORT in the future. We hope this collaboration will result in Software Composition Analysis tooling that better...
The top reasons why knowledge base size matters
A key to useful and accurate open source compliance and security is a powerful software analysis tool, relying on a comprehensive knowledge base. The FossID knowledge base offers a commercial representation of the latest innovation in open source software, and...
Improved performance and results with FossID’s latest product update
We recently announced a significant product update that encompasses improvements both in the visible GUI elements like the FossID Web Application, but also in underlying back-end components. The update brings new functionality, improvements and bug fixes to new and...
FOSSID in Strategic Open Source Software Governance Partnership with BearingPoint
BearingPoint offers their customers modular FOSS services, which include streamlined processes and infrastructure to deploy, manage, and govern software throughout the whole product lifecycle. BearingPoint’s FOSS analysis services provide a timely and confidential...
Unique Open Source Audit Method for Maximum Confidentiality, Ease, and Accuracy
Part of the FOSSID business relates to pure services based on our software scanner. Using our own tools, we help customers with open source audits, finding the prevalence of open source components, files, and snippets and identifying their origin and adhering...
FOSSID Takes Open Source Vulnerability Detection to New Levels
The FOSSID vulnerability snippet finder detects and identifies the actual lines of code that introduce vulnerabilities in open source and proprietary software Traditional Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools and software scanners typically identify open source...
Webinar with GTC Law and FOSSID, March 26, 9:30am EST
March 26th 2020, at 9:30 am EST we are hosting a webinar together with Leon Schwarts from GTC Law and Jon Aldama from FOSSID. Read the abstract below and click the link below to head over to the webinar page to register!Open source software and code snippets: the...