Stay safe with a unified view of the open source you use by generating a bill of materials along with the associated metadata for each open source component.
Get an ongoing assessment of your projects’ health and track how your organization is decreasing risk over time.
Continuously improve open source health with proactive, actionable security, licensing, and maintenance recommendations for all of the open source packages you use.
Drive alignment across stakeholders with an inclusive approach for defining and enforcing open source standards and policies within your organization.
Eliminate the burden on individual developers of assessing open source component issues by giving them access to a repository of pre-vetted, approved components.
Seamlessly integrate with developers’ existing processes through the command line interface (CLI) and CI/CD pipeline integrations.
We highlight nine of the most interesting revelations that help us understand how to make open source work even better for development teams and the organizations they work within.
The Tidelift Subscription is a comprehensive solution to managing open source across the organization. It includes the tools to create, track, and manage customizable catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained open source components backed by Tidelift and its open source maintainer partners. The Tidelift Subscription allows organizations to efficiently manage the ways its developers use thousands of open source projects across JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET, Rust, and more.
With the Tidelift Subscription in place, organizations can accelerate development, cut costs, and reduce risk when building applications with open source, so they can create even more incredible software, even faster.
In a world where software supply chain attacks are an increasingly prominent existential threat (think Equifax or SolarWinds) and make front-page news, organizations are rethinking how they manage the software they use.
Meanwhile, open source has become the modern development platform. A recent Tidelift study shows that 92% of enterprise software projects contain open source dependencies and in those projects as much as 70% or more of the code is open source.
There are countless open source components in use across global organizations. Not all of these components are created equal, for a number of reasons:
In fact, our data shows that only 16% of large organizations are extremely confident that the open source components they use are up to date, secure, and well maintained, while almost 40% are not very or not at all confident.
Many organizations are seeking ways to improve their open source management practices so they can optimize the health of their open source software supply chain.
Most organizations fall along a continuum from those who have no processes or policies in place to those with strict policies and scanning-based solutions in place.
With this approach, developers on each team bring in new components on their own. If scanning tools are being used, the results are often ignored.
Upside
No roadblocks, devs can build and deploy quickly.
downside
Creates possibility for maintenance and security nightmares.
With this approach, the organization tightly controls open source usage to avoid risk. Scanning tools block deployments until developers address concerns, which they can’t always do.
Upside
Reduce risk, avoid becoming next Equifax.
downside
Hard to move quickly and developers are frustrated.
Include the tools that help your organization manage those sets of components proactively as internal policies/standards and open source software evolves
Integrate with your build chain and minimize the disruption of your existing processes
Incentivize the open source software development community to continue to maintain and improve the packages your business depends on
Provide a set of “good” dependencies for each of the major frameworks or “stacks” your developers want to work with
This is why we created the Tidelift Subscription: to give your organization a better way to efficiently manage the open source you use for application development.
Generate SBOMs of all the packages used in your applications with rich insights such as:
Security-advised and license-annotated catalog recommendations to keep your applications safe:
Create a custom repository of pre-vetted and approved packages unique to your organization:
"Tidelift is positioned as the single source of content for supported technologies so enterprises can build and manage their software using known-good OSS components."
Al Gillen and Elaina Stergiades, IDC
Accelerate development and stay safe
Build with safe, approved, and compliant packages from the start to speed up development and reduce technical debt.
Reduce open source security risk
Get a single place to define, review, and enforce policies around security vulnerabilities in open source components.
Move fast and avoid rework
Eliminate late-breaking surprises that slow down development by using pre-approved, known-good open source components.
Reduce open source legal risk
Get a single place to define, review, and enforce license policies and get indemnification to protect against licensing-related risk.
Tidelift fielded our annual survey of technologists—including software developers, engineering executives and managers, architects, and devops pros—who build applications with open source.
Join Tidelift CEO and co-founder Donald Fisher and guest speaker Forrester Principal Analyst Sandy Carielli as they discuss some of the key lessons organizations can learn from Log4Shell along with some critical recommendations organizations can use to prepare for handling similar issues down the road.
Tidelift solutions architect Sean Wiley shows how to demonstrate a software bill of materials (SBOM) with Tidelift.