After a spate of high profile cyberattacks last year, President Biden issued an executive order to secure America’s critical infrastructure. Although it's aimed at basic security measures like ...

Component-based software helps you get a system working quickly, keep costs down, and reuse the most robust software from prior applications. This article presents methods for creating your own ...

Open source software is the bedrock of modern software development, but it can also be a weak link in the software supply chain. Here are the biggest risks — and tips on how to safely use OSS ...

What do Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle all have in common? Well, apart from being software vulnerabilities discovered in 2014, they were all found in pre-built software components, used by ...

Artificial-intelligence software, particularly deep-learning (DL) components, is currently the most advanced and economically feasible solution for achieving autonomous systems, such as autonomous ...

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Many commercial software companies and enterprise in-house developers are churning out applications that are insecure by design due to the rapid and often uncontrolled use of open-source components.

The use of open-source software components continues to be the standard for development, with about seven out of every 10 lines of code in the average application coming from an open-source project, a ...