Security News > 2020 > October > How to secure your open source supply chain

Commentary: Open source has never been more popular, which means it's time to figure out how to effectively secure the open source you use.

The world is made of software, and upwards of 99% of any software you use-open source or proprietary-includes open source components.

As Chef and System Initiative co-founder Adam Jacob stressed in a recent Open Source in Business interview, the real question is "How quickly can you react to the disruption in your supply chain?" not how to preempt such disruptions.

Pay attention to the upstream contributions to open source projects.

Rather, the product is the ability to influence an open source project in a way to get fixes delivered quickly, which is easier if the vendor has upstream contributors.

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