An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
ActiveState maintains a catalog of over 40 million open-source components and their interdependencies to provide vulnerability management automation for developers, SecOps, and DevSecOps teams.
ActiveState’s catalog contains the source code for components from the lowest level system libraries in C up to open-source applications like databases, web servers, proxies, etc.
ActiveState leverages a Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) level 3 build system to create a range of pre-built container images and other software constructs, enabling organizations to deploy applications and containers that include known-safe components with the latest patches.
ActiveState also ensures that deployed applications and containers run properly, resolving dependency-based issues like API changes that can occur with version updates, even when those dependencies cross language ecosystems.
Enterprises or their service providers can either leverage ActiveState to assemble their own images or rely upon ActiveState to pre-build custom images. Either way, ActiveState can attest the images will comply with relevant regulations.
ActiveState is best known for its support for Perl and Python but now supports most of the languages popular among open-source projects.
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