Security News > 2022 > May > Our Medical Devices' Open Source Problem – What Are the Risks?
Built and supported by vast communities of developers, OSS has become the ubiquitous building block of devices and apps in the general information technology community where 92% of applications now contain open source software - and medical devices have been catching up with that trend over the past few years.
One open source library could be pulling in any number of dependencies: other open source libraries in a potentially long chain that also need to be examined.
Open source management requires continuous tracking of open source libraries and their versions, in order to ensure devices do not contain vulnerabilities.
Open source libraries don't magically update themselves, and version updates could be published across a number of open source community resources.
The only way to ensure that medical devices are complying with all of their open source licensing requirements is by identifying and carefully tracking all the open source components throughout the lifetime of the devices.
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