Introducing the Kusari Platform—know your software

Navigating modern software development is a complex challenge. Kusari’s aim is to make it easier.

Parth Patel

October 22, 2024

By Parth Patel, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Kusari

“No more complexity!” That’s the rallying cry across IT organizations.

To simplify and speed up development cycles, modern DevOps practices often hide important details. This can leave teams with little insight or control over their software.

The lack of transparency becomes painfully clear when issues or emergencies arise. My co-founders and I dealt with these challenges for years, relying on makeshift “solutions” like email threads, spreadsheets, and endless meetings. These methods, while frustrating, were just enough to get by.

But today, business is powered by software—much of it open source—and things are moving faster than ever. The stakes are higher, and the risks costlier. That's why we were determined to build a real solution that brings full software transparency, making it easier to secure your systems and tackle major challenges like breaches or licensing issues.

Rather than hide your software data, Kusari helps you embrace it.

Today, we’re excited to introduce the Kusari Platform—a DevSecOps platform that stores and continuously updates your software bills of materials (SBOMs), filling in missing data. It correlates this information so you always know what software is in your supply chain and its current status to help assess risk. This serves as a single source of truth, aligning your team and other stakeholders with the knowledge and insights needed to address issues, plan ahead, and make informed decisions.

We built the Kusari Platform to provide ongoing transparency into the software your organization uses, helping you identify weak points, resolve issues faster, maintain trust, and minimize risk—all without adding extra burden to your security team or frustrating your developers.

Partly in response to major vulnerabilities like Log4j, the software industry has increased the focus on software supply chain metadata like SBOMs, attestations using Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA), vulnerability reports, Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) documents, and OpenSSF Scorecard. While collecting this information is valuable and a priority, it's important to remember that these are just tools for understanding your software—not the full picture. Each piece of data is isolated, so it's essential to combine them for a complete view of your software supply chain's security.

The Kusari Platform brings all these sources together into a single, unified view. Its dashboard ranks and prioritizes issues, providing security teams with the missing context they need for better decision-making. With fast and accurate queries, developers and security engineers can quickly identify risks, making them easier to identify, create effective remediation plans, or even avoid.

Built on powerful open-source components, the Kusari Platform offers actionable guidance from our team’s experience in securing software supply chains. Each vulnerability is scored based on its specific details and its impact on the supply chain, allowing teams to easily prioritize which vulnerabilities to fix first. While all vulnerabilities should be addressed, some are more urgent than others.

We invite you to discover how the Kusari Platform can give you full visibility and control over your software. Take the next step toward securing your supply chain today.

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