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Detect Open-Source Software Risk

Manifest helps organizations track open-source software (OSS) components across applications, monitor vulnerabilities in real time, and ensure license compliance.

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Manage Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Licenses

Improve Security Posture

Identify and remediate vulnerabilities in open source components before they’re exploited.

Assure License Compliance

Automate detection of non-compliant or high-risk OSS licenses.

Reduce Risk Exposure

Prevent “shadow OSS” from slipping into production without visibility or approval.

Streamline Audit Readiness

Maintain an up-to-date, auditable inventory of OSS usage across your enterprise.

Manage OSS: Inventory, Risks, and Compliance

OSS inventory

Automatically create and maintain an enterprise-wide inventory of OSS

OSS risk

Add valuable context to raw, difficult-to-interpret SBOM content through integrations with leading vulnerability and exploitability datasets.

Licenses and IP

Interact with SBOM content and vulnerability data in a beautiful platform purpose built for practitioners to analyze risks and make better decisions.

Streamlining OSS Risk Identification with Manifest

Manifest provides open-source tracking as part of its broader software supply chain security platform:

  • OSS Inventory

    Automatically discover OSS components across codebases, pipelines, and applications.

  • License Compliance

    Flag restrictive or incompatible licenses and enforce compliance policies automatically.

  • Vulnerability Monitoring

    Continuously scan OSS dependencies against CVE databases and enrich with exploitability data (EPSS, KEV).

  • Unified Risk View

    Integrate OSS tracking into SBOMs, supplier risk, and governance modules for a complete supply chain perspective.

FAQs

What is open source software tracking?

Open source software (OSS) tracking is the process of identifying, monitoring, and managing all open source components within your applications. It ensures you know which libraries you’re using, whether they contain vulnerabilities, and if their licenses align with your organization’s compliance policies.

Why is open source software tracking important for security?

Open source software often introduces vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit. Without tracking, organizations risk relying on outdated or unpatched OSS libraries. Manifest’s open source tracking continuously monitors components against CVE databases and highlights issues based on real exploitability, not just CVSS scores.

How does Manifest track open source software vulnerabilities?

Manifest automatically inventories your open source components, monitors them for known vulnerabilities, and enriches results with exploitability data such as EPSS and KEV. This helps security teams prioritize which OSS vulnerabilities matter most and respond faster.

How is open source software tracking different from SBOMs?

SBOMs are the foundation of strong open source software tracking. An SBOM provides the inventory of open source components within your applications, while open source tracking builds on that inventory with continuous monitoring, vulnerability detection, and license compliance. In other words, SBOMs give you visibility, and tracking ensures that visibility stays current, actionable, and tied to risk management.

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