GitLab announced the launch of GitLab 18, including AI capabilities natively integrated into the platform and major new innovations across core DevOps, and security and compliance workflows that are available now, with further enhancements planned throughout the year.
Checkmarx introduced a new homegrown engine for its Checkmarx Open Source Analysis (CxOSA) solution.
Designed by the same Checkmarx research and development team that created its CxSAST static application security testing solution, CxOSA empowers development, AppSec and DevOps teams to identify, triage and remediate open source software security vulnerabilities as well as license compliance risks.
Although organizations have started to deploy SCA tools, these often operate in complete silos separate from other software security solutions such as static application security testing (SAST) products which look for risks in proprietary and homegrown code. With Checkmarx’s shift left approach, homegrown and open source scans can be conducted during the pre-build phase and are then integrated and correlated, reducing noise and false positives. Broad coverage leads to results with greater confidence levels and allows for more intelligent remediation.
“The majority of organizations today use open source components as it helps developers accelerate development, but vulnerabilities in these components represent a top target for successful external attacks,” said Assaf Dar, Chief Product Development officer at Checkmarx. “CxOSA prevents the use of vulnerable open source components while allowing for faster delivery of secure software. The solution automates scanning by leveraging existing DevOps integrations, making it the best fit for DevSecOps.”
Today, hundreds of organizations use CxOSA with CxSAST within Checkmarx’s Software Exposure Platform. The platform tightly integrates CxSAST, CxOSA, CxIAST and CxCodebashing via a unified management and orchestration layer to mitigate risk across the entire software exposure lifecycle. Using all of the platform solution components from one vendor, Checkmarx, empowers organizations to dramatically improve their overall software security posture while reducing total cost of ownership. Checkmarx also offers expert services for software security deployment to advance customers’ DevOps programs.
“The new Checkmarx CxOSA engine was built on the foundation of our open source solution, embedding years of experience and research in mitigating open source security and compliance risks,” added Dar. “Now, we wholly own all the components of the industry’s most comprehensive solution for DevSecOps. For customers, this, among other things, means they experience the industry’s tightest coupling of SAST and SCA, allowing them to define and enforce policies for both proprietary and open source vulnerabilities as well as easily derive meaningful correlations and manage software security risks from a single pane of glass.”
Industry News
Perforce Software is partnering with Siemens Digital Industries Software to transform how smart, connected products are designed and developed.
Reply launched Silicon Shoring, a new software delivery model powered by Artificial Intelligence.
CIQ announced the tech preview launch of Rocky Linux from CIQ for AI (RLC-AI), an operating system engineered and optimized for artificial intelligence workloads.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the launch of the Cybersecurity Skills Framework, a global reference guide that helps organizations identify and address critical cybersecurity competencies across a broad range of IT job families; extending beyond cybersecurity specialists.
CodeRabbit is now available on the Visual Studio Code editor.
The integration brings CodeRabbit’s AI code reviews directly into Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code at the earliest stages of software development—inside the code editor itself—at no cost to the developers.
Chainguard announced Chainguard Libraries for Python, an index of malware-resistant Python dependencies built securely from source on SLSA L2 infrastructure.
Sysdig announced the donation of Stratoshark, the company’s open source cloud forensics tool, to the Wireshark Foundation.
Pegasystems unveiled Pega Predictable AI™ Agents that give enterprises extraordinary control and visibility as they design and deploy AI-optimized processes.
Kong announced the introduction of the Kong Event Gateway as a part of their unified API platform.
Azul and Moderne announced a technical partnership to help Java development teams identify, remove and refactor unused and dead code to improve productivity and dramatically accelerate modernization initiatives.
Parasoft has added Agentic AI capabilities to SOAtest, featuring API test planning and creation.
Zerve unveiled a multi-agent system engineered specifically for enterprise-grade data and AI development.
LambdaTest, a unified agentic AI and cloud engineering platform, has announced its partnership with MacStadium(link is external), the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads, to accelerate its AI-native software testing by leveraging Apple Silicon.
Tricentis announced a new capability that injects Tricentis’ AI-driven testing intelligence into SAP’s integrated toolchain, part of RISE with SAP methodology.