Open Source Security
How Snyk scans NuGet and .NET project files for vulnerabl...
How Snyk resolves NuGet and .NET dependency graphs from csproj, packages.config, and project.assets.json files to find vulnerable packages.
Jun 9, 20267 min read
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How Snyk scans Composer/PHP and RubyGems dependency manif...
A technical look at how Snyk parses composer.json/composer.lock and Gemfile/Gemfile.lock to build dependency trees and match PHP and Ruby packages against known vulnerabilities.
Jun 9, 20266 min read
Compliance
What are Open Source Licenses?
Open source licenses govern how 96% of modern codebases can legally be used. Here's how license compliance works, where Black Duck's approach falls short, and how to close the gaps.
Jun 9, 20267 min read
Open Source Security
How Snyk's exploit maturity rating is researched and assi...
A look at how Snyk researches and assigns exploit maturity ratings — the categories, the manual research process, and how the label shapes vulnerability prioritization.
Jun 8, 20267 min read
Open Source Security
How Snyk handles vulnerability remediation for indirect (...
How does Snyk fix vulnerabilities buried in transitive dependencies you never directly installed? A look at dependency graphs, upgrade paths, and pinning.
Jun 8, 20266 min read
Open Source Security
How Snyk's .snyk file structures ignore rules with expiry...
How Snyk's .snyk file encodes vulnerability ignore rules using reason and expiry date fields, and what happens in CI once an exception lapses.
Jun 8, 20267 min read
Concepts
What is a Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) Statement
A VEX statement is a machine-readable assertion of whether a product is actually affected by a CVE — the document that stops your customers from triaging your SBOM for you.
Jun 8, 20266 min read
AppSec
Webhooks Security: A Practical Checklist
Webhooks security is easy to get wrong because the endpoint has to trust an unauthenticated inbound request by default — here's the checklist that closes the common gaps.
Jun 8, 20265 min read
AI Security
GPT-5 Launch: Reading the System Card for Supply-Chain Risk
GPT-5 shipped August 13, 2025 under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework v2. Here's what the system card tells security teams about deployment risk.
Jun 8, 20266 min read
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