Vince Arneja, Chief Product Officer, GrammaTech

Software is eating the world is a common refrain describing the oversized influence software has in how we run our businesses. From WFH initiatives, digital transformation to application development demands, third party software usage is on the rise. A recent study has shown that 100% of the most popular software contains highly vulnerable components. The challenge is how do you proactively uncover, manage and reduce the inherent risk that this code introduces. New products have emerged which prevent this risk by analyzing this COTS or 3rd party code, for vulnerabilities while creating a SBOM (software bill of materials).