As the usage of open-source software in applications increased in recent years and supply chain attacks are on the rise, organizations are facing challenges with remediating zero-day vulnerabilities found in open-source components.  When new vulnerabilities are found and before they go public, organizations need to find affected applications for rapid evaluation of risk exposure and remediate them before they can be exploited.

Vulnerability management is challenging in large businesses and complex IT environments.  Existing vulnerability management solutions aren’t efficient, and effective in detecting and remediating risks associated with open-source software in custom applications. The challenges are a lack of information on what components are used by the applications, and a lack of integration with enterprise application risk profiles, threat models, and attack surface.

To effectively manage exposures, organizations need to track and maintain the status of each application, whether it is in development, testing, or deployed in production, and where in the network that application is running, on-premise or cloud, and on what servers. Having all that data accessible to the security operations center instantaneously to view is crucial to managing a zero-day vulnerability.

Five Shields is providing solutions that use modern approaches to software security and tools needed to manage the risks with open-source software vulnerabilities effectively and efficiently.