Companies drive their digital future through open innovation and benefit from shared knowledge and development capacities as well as strategic, open development and innovation alliances. They strengthen their digital sovereignty, reduce the vendor lock-in effect and improve IT security, quality and transparency through Open-Source communities.
Experienced developers do not write their code from scratch, but use Open-Source for development. Reasons are to improve productivity, shorten development time and reduce development costs. AI is providing more and more support in the creation of software. Trained by code from Open-Source repositories, High-quality code can be generated at lightning speed.
It is important to respect intellectual property and licence requirements. For legally compliant use, all Open-Source components in a software must be known and continuously checked for security vulnerabilities.
The European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is currently being developed in the EU. With DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) and NIS 2 Directive, the European Union has created a financial sector-wide regulation for cyber security, ICT risks and digital operational resilience.
An efficient Open-Source-Management framework and the use of suitable processes and tool chains such as Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Software Asset Management (SAM) are prerequisites for the legally compliant and sustainable use of OSS. Professional management of intellectual property in your software supply chain with existing standards such as ISO 5230 and ISO 5962.
Bitsea supports you in all aspects of Open-Source-Management so that you as a company are protected against a lack of compliance and cyber attacks on the software supply chain.
Protection against risks
Compliance
Protection against legal risks such as third-party intellectual property (IP) and licence obligations.
Cybersecurity
Protection against security gaps and vulnerabilities in software supply chains: Continuous monitoring.
Export restrictions
Many components, often with algorithms for encryption, are subject to strict export restrictions with drastic penalties.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI systems, trained by code fragments from Open-Source repositories, often generate code without regards to and without mentioning copyrights and licences.
License changes
Some Open-Source projects change the underlying permissive licence to a more restrictive licence when an update is released. This requires continuous monitoring of the components and versions used.
Policy protection
68% of companies have no internal policy regarding the use of Open- Source. The majority of developers are aware of less than 10% of the Open-Source content in their products (Source: Bitkom Open Source Monitor 2023).
Eliminate uncontrolled use of Open-Source to avoid copyright infringement, litigation, security vulnerabilities and operational risks. Meet licence obligations and avoid sanctions or penalties.
Bitsea's services
Benefit from sustainable Open-Source-Security, -risk and -compliance management.
Consulting
Bitsea advises customers comprehensively on Open-Source-Strategy, Open-Source-Governance, Open-Source-Processes, toolchains and offers an Open-Source-Program-Office (OSPO) and scanning as a managed service. We offer extensive workshops and training courses to sensitize your teams.
Development
Bitsea builds and operates Open-Source-Tool-Chains and the associated infrastructure independently of tools and customised to clients needs. If required, our developers can customise interfaces, tools or reports.
Audits
Our experienced Bitsea audit team identifies and monitors operational OSS risks and helps you ensure source code compliance. Bitsea uses a multi-factor approach to Software Composition Analysis (SCA). You receive a transparent bill of materials (SBOM) of components, security vulnerabilities, licences and licence obligations. We monitor your entire supply chain and also help your suppliers to provide the data you need. The focus is on automation and the reuse of already curated data.
We provide support with legal issues together with our wide partner network.
Engagement OpenChain
As an OpenChain partner, we provide support in the preparation and introduction of an Open-Source licence compliance program in accordance with ISO/IEC 5230 and advise on OpenChain Security Assurance in accordance with ISO/IEC 18974.
Embedded Systems
The size of the system is a major cost driver in the analysis. Particularly with embedded systems such as Yocto/Linux or frameworks such as Android, the effort and time involved can often be reduced to a fraction by intelligently tailoring the object of investigation. Bitsea has developed an automated process to identify relevant sources in advance and eliminate unused source code. This saves time and costs.
Software Composition Analysis
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Software is built by components from various origins. Bitseas' comprehensive approach will help you to to understand the roots of your code.
Full Forensic
Analysis
Analysis of source code, binary files, archives,containers, build dependencies, subcomponents, patches, modified and partial matches to open source components.
Snippet Matching
Identification of copy pasted code ("snippets") and modifications inside proprietary code.
Security Vulnerabilities
More than 20,000 documented software vulnerabilities in 2019 alone are at an all-time high. Monitor vulnerabilities proactively and continuously. Get actionable alerts for newly discovered vulnerabilities in current and shipped products.
Compliance
Library
Get access to 150 TB on premise database. Bitsea uses the largest, most comprehensive open source library with more than 14 million open source components. It maps over 400.000 components versions to vulnerabilities.
Creation of BoM
95% of mainstream IT organizations leverage nontrivial open source software assets within their mission-critical IT portfolio. Organizations are aware of less than 10% of their open source use. Bitsea's experts have analyzed more than 100,000,000 LOC to create a complete bill of material (BoM).
Expert Advice
Discover open source obligations with our highly trained expert auditors.
Training & Coaching
Bitsea offers open source license compliance seminars for managers, project managers and developers.
M&A Software
due diligence
Bitsea's independent expert assessment and advice is standardized, fair and objective.
Automation
Automation of the tool chain, integration into existing infrastructure, inventory, cataloging, reuse.
Openchain
Open source-license-compliance according to ISO 5230
Identification of
Export-
restrictions
Benefits
· Open source security and compliance management
· Transparent list of licenses and license obligation
· Experienced audit team
· Identification and monitoring of operational OSS risks
· Ensuring the legal compliance of your code
· Tracking, managing and securing your code
· Detection and monitoring of security vulnerabilities