WhiteSource Announced the Acquisition of Diffend to Provide Software Supply Chain Security
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FREMONT, CA: WhiteSource, the market leader in open source protection and management, has declared the acquisition of Diffend, an open-source malware security and threat detection solution. WhiteSource Diffend is designed for near-invisible, exception-based alerting on software supply chain security threats that dont interfere with developers work." Mensfeld added, "in the past week alone, the Diffend platform has been responsible for detecting and reporting 60 suspicious packages to Rubygems, all of which have now been removed, benefiting all open source users." They happen when malicious code is applied to commercial or open-source software that is implemented directly or indirectly by the client or used as part of the create and publish process. It can range from affecting application traffic to revealing sensitive systems and data as a result of access authorization abuse.
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