Across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), enterprise IT is undergoing a fundamental shift. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer restricted to isolated sandboxes or pilot projects. Autonomous AI agents, embedded software-as-a-service (SaaS) features, and automated workflows are actively running in…
New tools can find potential flaws faster than teams can assess and fix them. When a serious flaw is discovered, the central challenge is ensuring maintainers, distributors, and operators receive the clear information and time necessary to defend their users.While AI-assisted research surfaces potential…
The patch was ready in days. It took months to ship. Why?I hear that question in nearly every customer conversation about vulnerability management. The honest answer is rarely “We didn’t know about it.” It’s “We knew, but getting it into production took longer than the exploit window.”That delay, the time between a…
Vulnerabilities are easy to count. Meaningful risk is harder to measure.Open source has become the foundation of modern software because it works. Shared innovation, transparent development, global communities, and broad reuse let software advance at a scale no single organization could achieve alone.Security is part…
Enterprise IT runs on decades-old foundational code. The prevailing assumption around these mature components is that if code has been sitting untouched in production for ten years without breaking, it must be safe. Libraries like the Eclipse Implementation of Jakarta XML Binding (JAXB) quietly power enterprise…
Open source software faces significant regulatory shifts, making "secure by design" development practices increasingly important. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) takes effect on December 11, 2027, and as of September 11, 2026, the first CRA vulnerability and incident reporting obligations were live. These new…
Managing vulnerabilities across a fleet of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems is a continuous challenge. Between tracking Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), prioritizing by business risk, planning RHEL upgrades, and remediating issues, operations teams juggle multiple tools and workflows daily. Red Hat…
Back in 2010, I wrote a small web tool to generate random galactic sectors for a tabletop role playing game. It started as a Perl application, but these days it’s a single, static Go binary with all of its assets compiled right into the executable. Thousands of game masters have used it, it runs quietly in the public…
In part 1 of this series, we examined why enterprises need more than an inventory of the open source components in their software. Understanding where dependencies come from, whether they are maintained, how they handle vulnerabilities, and what options exist when problems emerge is increasingly important to managing…
Knowing an application contains open source components is not the same as understanding the software and communities behind them.For many organizations, the software supply chain extends across thousands of dependencies, developed and maintained by communities, foundations, vendors, and individual contributors. Red…