Security News > 2022 > April > Challenges development teams face when building applications with open source

This comprehensive study of nearly 700 technologists, now in its fourth year, explored the most urgent challenges development teams face when building applications with open source.

It also reveals new insights into how confident technologists are in their organizations' current open source management practices, and in the open source components and languages they use more generally.

Further it highlights how organizations are employing emerging open source management best practices, including the use of software bills of materials and repositories of approved open source components.

"Open source is now the de facto standard application development platform and is a proven driver of business success and innovation. Yet as its popularity grows, the challenge of helping development teams manage open source health and security becomes exponentially more difficult," said Donald Fischer, CEO, Tidelift.

Only 15% of organizations are extremely confident in their open source management practices; the majority have some concerns about keeping open source up-to-date, secure, and well-maintained.

Many organizations are already using or piloting the best practice of building centralized repositories of approved open source components.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/04/20/open-source-software-supply-chain-management/