Open Source Risk Control
Manage OSS legal compliance and security risks.
Across all your applications.
Without disrupting developers.
Over 70% of applications utilize open source components which introduces legal, security, and obsolescence risks, according to Gartner.
Competitive analysis & ranking of the leading Software Composition Analysis vendors. CAST is a leader across technology excellence and customer impact.
2022 SPARK Matrix™ Research for Software Composition Analysis by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions
So, why is this so hard?
Traditional approaches to implementing SCA are often challenging:
Slow and Cumbersome
Rollout
It can take months or even years to successfully deploy enterprise wide SCA across all applications.
Increasingly Complicated
and Expensive
Integration into environments, IDE plugins for every developer, training multiple teams create complexity and significant cost.
Compounding Developer
"Alert Fatigue"
Requiring every developer to be vigilant and creating more alerts slows down developers.
Ultimately, open source risks can get lost in the noise and ignored.
But, there is a smarter approach to SCA…
CAST Highlight -- the Open Source "Control Tower"
Across all your applications. Without disrupting developers.
Operational in Weeks
Plugs directly into source code repositories and automatically aggregates the results of the analysis across all applications into intuitive dashboards allowing legal, security, and operations experts to make informed decisions engaging developers only when needed.
Generate or Import SBOMs
Automatically generates Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) by analyzing applications or importing existing SBOM, an inventory of all OSS components used within the codebase including licenses, versions and security vulnerabilities. Exports available in various formats including industry standards such as CycloneDX, Word, Excel, PPT, XML, and REST API.
See a sample SBOM
Automated Recommendations
Built-in Portfolio Advisor for Open Source automatically prioritizes actions for the most severe licensing and security risks, based on the business impact of each application. Guides legal, security, and software experts on which alternative components are safer to use within the context of their application portfolio.
Identifies Emerging Vulnerabilities
CAST’s exclusive “MRI for Software” automatically analyzes the source code of open-source components that are constantly changing, enabling organizations to intercept emerging vulnerabilities (open source CWEs) months before traditional SCA products can.
Broadridge Manages Open Source Risk with Control Tower Powered by CAST Highlight
Learn how Broadridge Financial Solutions stood up effective SCA across its entire application portfolio in less than a month, with automatic advice on:
- OSS security risks per National Vulnerabilities Database
- OSS emerging vulnerabilities, months before traditional SCA tools can detect them
- Legal and intellectual property risks across your OSS components
- Operational risks due to OSS component obsolescence
Without breaking the bank or down slowing developers.
Why EY Chose CAST Highlight for Open Source Risk Assessment
Buyers Guide for Effective SCA by LTI
What Our Clients Experienced
CAST Highlight enabled us to assess OSS risks across all our applications in minutes versus hundreds of hours.
Marilyn Hartnett
VP, Open Source Governance
We've tried alternatives. We recommend CAST Highlight due to its speed and lower cost.
Keith MacKay
Managing Director