💡 Concepts

About vet

vet is a free and open source tool for identifying risks in open source software supply chain. It helps security engineering teams to establish policy driven guard rails against risky OSS components.

Why vet?

It has been estimated that Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) constitutes 70-90% of any given piece of modern software solutions. Source

Industry dependency on OSS will only increase. We need better tooling to help security engineering teams to safely consume OSS components.

Problem space

Product security practices secure software developed and deployed internally. They do not cover software consumed from external sources in form of libraries from the Open Source ecosystem. The growing risk of vulnerable, unmaintained and malicious dependencies establishes the need for product security teams to vet 3rd party dependencies before consumption.

Current state

Vetting open source packages are largely a manual and opinionated process involving engineering teams as the requester and security teams as the service provider. A typical OSS vetting process involves auditing dependencies to ensure security, popularity, license compliance, trusted publisher etc. The manual nature of this activity increases cycle time and slows down engineering velocity, especially for evolving products.

🚀 What vet aims to solve

vet solves the problem of OSS dependency vetting by providing a policy driven automated analysis of libraries. It can be seamlessly integrated with any CI tool or used in local environments.

🤩 vet in Action

About SafeDep Cloud

SafeDeo Cloud is a managed SaaS built using SafeDep Control Tower. It is meant for large scale vet deployments across 1000+ repositories, central policy management, integrated SBOM visualization, querying and other governance use-cases. See cloud quickstart for more details.