This report uses data from the Synopsys Black Duck Audit Services team’s analysis of anonymized findings from 1,067 commercial codebases across 17 industries during 2023. The Audit Services team has helped security, development, and legal teams around the world strengthen their security and license compliance programs for over 20 years. The team audits thousands of codebases for our customers each year, with the primary aim of identifying software risks during merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions.

In its 8th edition this year, the 2023 “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report delivers our annual in-depth look at the current state of open source security, compliance, licensing, and code quality risks in commercial software. We share these findings with the goal of helping security, legal, risk, and development team better understand the open source security and license risk landscape.

The 2020 OSSRA includes insights and recommendations to help security, risk, legal, and development teams better understand the open source security and license risk landscape.