Companies accelerate software development and release new features that delight their customers and help them gain market share in large part through leveraging open source code. Nearly all modern applications are built at least in part with open source code, yet recent research by Veracode revealed that 70% of applications have open source security flaws. With the third-party code introduced by developers directly as they build an application comes vulnerabilities introduced indirectly. Use of open source libraries helps developers and sparks innovation - the security threat comes with a lack of awareness into whether open source vulnerabilities are impacting applications.

Attendees will learn what open source software is, understand risks that open source software introduces, and how their organization can mitigate these risks with secure code and improve overall security.