Security News > 2022 > September > Nearly one in two industry pros scaled back open source use over security fears
About 40 percent of industry professionals say their organizations have reduced their usage of open source software due to concerns about security, according to a survey conducted by data science firm Anaconda.
About 33 percent of commercial respondents said they had not scaled back on open source, 7 percent said they had increased usage, and 20 percent said they weren't sure.
The remaining 40 percent said they had. By commercial respondents, Anaconda means a data-science-leaning mix of business analysts, product managers, data and machine-learning scientists and engineers, standard IT roles such as systems administrators, and others in technology, finance, consulting, healthcare, and so on.
By scale back, that doesn't mean stop: 87 percent of commercial respondents said their organization still allowed the use of open source.
Of the 40 percent who scaled back usage of open source, more than half did so after the Log4j fiasco.
Some 31 percent of respondents said security vulnerabilities represent the biggest challenge in the open source community today.
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