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Flexera Offers Free Open Source Security Subscription to Celebrate InstallShield’s 30th Anniversary

November 2017 by Marc Jacob

Flexera announced an unprecedented open
source security offer for InstallShield owners, in celebration of its 30th
anniversary. InstallShield is the industry standard for development teams creating
Windows desktop, server and cloud installers on more than 500 million devices. It
has consistently set the global standard for automated Microsoft Windows software
installation solutions since 1987, and continues to drive reliability for software
suppliers and buyers.

To help celebrate its 30th anniversary, users who are current on InstallShield
Maintenance can now subscribe at no charge to FlexNet Code Aware, Flexera’s
leading, automated open source risk assessment and package discovery solution.
FlexNet Code Aware allows software developers to quickly scan their products for
security and Intellectual Property (IP) compliance risks – before products ship.

FlexNet Code Aware, integrated in InstallShield, allows software developers to embed
open source security into the very heart of the software development process, with
automatic open source analysis detection. Today’s offer providing a free FlexNet
Code Aware subscription to all InstallShield users will empower more than 100,000
developers already using InstallShield to secure the software supply chain, reducing
their products’ exposure to open source vulnerabilities and license compliance
risk.

Why Open Source Security Scans Are Important

The use of open source components in software development is skyrocketing. A decade
ago, developers were using less than 100 open source libraries per release. Today,
some industries are using more than 1,000. In addition, developers are often not
aware of the risks contained in the open source code they use.

Over 50 percent of a software product is open source – developed outside the
organisation. According to Flexera’s recent Open Source Risk – Fact or Fiction?
report:

· No OSS Policy is Bad Policy: Only 37 percent of respondents have an open
source acquisition or usage policy.
o 63 percent say either their companies don’t have an open source acquisition
or usage policy, or they don’t know if one exists.

· No One’s in Charge of OSS: 39 percent of respondents said that either
no one within their company is responsible for open source compliance – or that
they don’t know who is.
· OSS Contributors Aren’t Following Best Practices: 33 percent of
respondents say their companies contribute to open source projects.

o But, of the 63 percent who say their companies don’t have an open source
acquisition or usage policy, 43 percent said they contribute to open source
projects.

And as a whole, developers are only aware of up to four percent of the third-party
software that comprises their products. As open source dependency increases,
developers need to be good corporate citizens and truly understand the vulnerability
risk and compliance requirements they are inheriting from the open source code they
use. FlexNet Code Aware, integrated with InstallShield, identifies the libraries
developers are using, and what the associated licensing terms are to ensure
compliance.


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