Google Duo on uncertified Android devices might also stop working – SlashGear

Android being open source software allows it to be installed on devices and used in cases that Google may have never imagined or allowed. Those include some set-top boxes, desktops, laptops, watches, single-board computers or SBCs, and everything in between. Google, however, does have a system in place that keeps Android from spiraling out of its control completely. One such system involves keeping Google apps out of these uncertified devices, like what it will be doing with Google Messages and, soon, Google Duo.

Google has a certification process in place for devices that want to ship with Google Play apps and services. Given how these have become part and parcel of the Android experience, it is pretty much Googles strategy to keep devices and manufacturers in line without technically changing Androids open source nature. In other words, anyone who wants to be considered a serious commercial Android device will have to be approved by Google and, consequentially, follow its rules.

There are ways for uncertified devices to get hold of those Google Play components, none of which are sanctioned by Google, of course. This is pretty much the only way that users of third-party Android ROMs, Amazon Fire devices, or even recent Huawei phones will be able to get access to Gmail, Chrome, and the like. Google, however, seems to be coming out with a way to block even that, at least for its messaging apps.

Following revelations about Google Messages, 9to5Google discovered in the latest version of Google Duo that the video calling app will stop working on unsupported, meaning uncertified, devices. Accounts in Google Duo on that device will be unregistered and users are advised to download their clips and call history before that happens.

Google Messages warning says that it will take effect on March 31 this year but now such hint was discovered for Google Duo. These changes could prove to be controversial and, unfortunately for affected users, theres really no getting around that Google has the right to withhold the use of its apps as it sees fits. One can only hope that Google doesnt push through with the changes or, worse, use the same tactic for all its other apps on uncertified devices.

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One Year Into the Pandemic: 51% of Tech Leaders Give Companies Lagging in Digital Innovation Only Three Years or Less to Live, a 14% Jump from the…

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from Kong Inc. shows the importance of digital innovation has dramatically increased. According to the 2021 DigitalInnovation Benchmark report, 51% of technology leaders expect a business to go under or be acquired by 2024 if they lag in digital innovation, up from 37% in Kong's inaugural 2020 report. A shocking 84% predict this dire outcome within six years.

Sixty-two percent of technology leaders across industries believe competitors could displace them by being quicker to innovate, up from 57% in the prior year. The survey of 400 technology leaders benchmarks the use of modern software architectures to enable business agility and compares how they are being used at organizations with 1,000+ employees. This year's research also explores the role the COVID-19 pandemic is having on digital transformation plans and technology budgets. To download the full report, visit https://konghq.com/resources/digital-innovation-benchmark-2021/.

Technology leaders face immense pressure to future-proof their organizations' infrastructure so it can support the technologies, applications and business models of the future. Like last year, a large majority of these professionals (87%) say the failure to adopt microservices will hurt their company's ability to compete. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, 67% of them expect serious professional ramificationsbeing fired, losing out on a promotion or missing out on a bonusfor failed modernization initiatives (e.g., cloud, microservices, adopting new technologies).

Open Source, Microservices and Kubernetes Power Digital InnovationDevelopers favor open source software and the freedom to test-drive innovative technologies that are designed for today's needs. It is no surprise that open source is prevalent among the overwhelming majority of organizations surveyed (91%). The U.S. leads in the use of open source, where 94% of technology leaders say that their organizations have been using or just started to use open source software, compared with 89% in Europe. The types of open source technologies used most include: databases (57%), infrastructure automation (47%), API design, testing and automation (46%), and API gateway (38%) and containers (38%), which are enabling technologies to develop, deploy and manage applications with distributed architectures based on microservices.

Open source service mesh is a new type of software that companies are starting to use today (20%), fueled by high enterprise adoption of microservices, and is new to Kong's research this year. The vast majority of companies (87%) are already using microservices. Thirty-three percent have transitioned entirely to distributed architectures, including microservices and serverless, with the highest adoption in France and the U.S. (40% and 39% respectively). Of those already using or planning to use microservices, the average number in production is 102 across all regions. The average is significantly higher in the U.S. than in Europe, 129 versus 74.

The main reasons (beyond cost) that are driving enterprises to transition to microservices include:

Kong's research this year also explored current and planned adoption of Kubernetes. Eighty-six percent of organizations are already using or planning to use the open source container orchestration system, with only 5% with no plans to do so in the next 12 months. This data demonstrates that Kubernetes has emerged as the standard operating environment for applications built with modern distributed architectures.

Mixed Deployment Environments Add Complexity and New Security RisksThe challenges of using distributed applications and architectures extend to a range of deployment options across on-premises, hybrid cloud, public cloud or multi-cloud. Nearly half (46%) are running services on-premises that connect with services running in the cloud. Among respondents, use of Amazon Web Services (43%) has a slight lead over Microsoft Azure (42%), followed by Google Cloud Platform (35%, up from 27% the prior year). Forty-one percent of companies currently use a multi-cloud environment, defined as services running in one cloud connected with services running in another cloud.

With the diversity of applications running across heterogeneous environments, it comes as no surprise that managing APIs is a growing problem. The top challenges include securing APIs (51%), monitoring API traffic (42%), scaling APIs (39%), API performance (36%), controlling API traffic (35%) and testing (35%) APIs.

When asked about specific challenges in using microservice-based applications, the top reasons cited include:

"A year into the pandemic has made it clear that 'business as usual' is a thing of the past. It's no surprise that a company's ability to digitally innovate will largely determine whether it will survive or be displaced in a few short years," said Marco Palladino, CTO and co-founder of Kong. "Our research shows that technology leaders understand that speed of innovation must also be matched with security, operational efficiency and reliability. As infrastructure and applications become more distributed and interconnected, the ability to connect and secure data as it travels across services and through clouds is vital."

COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerates Existing TrendsTechnology leaders overwhelmingly agree (89%) that creating new digital experiences to address COVID-19 business challenges is a business-critical endeavor. Sixty-four percent of respondents say they will continue to pursue multi-year digital transformation initiatives. When asked about the impact the pandemic has had on their company's IT/developer budget over the last 12 months, 55% of respondents reported an increase. Twenty-seven percent of respondents in France say their budget has increased 25% or more, compared with the U.S. (21%), UK (16%) and Germany (14%).

Funding Innovation and Speed in 2021Organizations recognize that while fast innovation is essential to stay competitive in 2021, speed cannot come at the expense of other fundamentals. When asked to rank business priorities, improve operational efficiency (39%), improve application performance/reliability (37%) and improve application security (35%) were deemed higher priorities than reduce cost (33%) and accelerate innovation (27%). The vast majority of U.S. (81%) and European (78%) companies are increasing their IT budgets in the coming year, with 21% of U.S. companies expecting their budgets to grow by 26% or more, compared with only 16% in Europe.

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About the Survey Kong engaged Vanson Bourne to field a survey of 400 senior technology decision makers in the U.S. and Europe, including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of IT, IT directors/architects and software engineers/developers from organizations across a range of industries. The survey was fielded in December 2020-January 2021, with respondents coming from a range of industries, including business and professional services; financial services; IT, technology and telecoms; manufacturing and production; and retail, distribution and transport. Vanson Bourne rigorously screened interview candidates to ensure suitability and data quality.

About Kong Inc.Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong's service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit https://konghq.com/ or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

About Vanson BourneVanson Bourne is an independent specialist in market research for the technology sector. Our reputation for robust and credible research-based analysis is founded upon rigorous research principles and our ability to seek the opinions of senior decision makers across technical and business functions, in all business sectors and all major markets. For more information, visit http://www.vansonbourne.com.

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Openbase wants to be the Yelp for open source software packages – VentureBeat

Open source has eaten the world, evidenced by the myriad major deals that have gone down in open source town in recent times. In 2018, IBM snapped up enterprise-focused open source software maker Red Hat for an eye-popping $34 billion, while Salesforce bought Mulesoft for $6.5 billion. And just yesterday, Cockroach Labs, maker of the open source distributed SQL database CockroachDB, raised $160 million at a $2 billion valuation.

Most of the major technology companies these days not only use open source software, but actively contribute to the projects. They even open-source their own tools where it makes sense, as Facebook did with its React JavaScript library, which is now a prominent front-end development tool.

However, there are some 1.5 million JavaScript packages alone out there, making it difficult for developers to research and evaluate the quality of each one. And its against that backdrop that San Francisco-based Openbase is setting out to help developers choose from these millions of open source packages that serve as the building blocks of much of todays software.

Founded in 2019, Openbases raison dtre is to surface the best open source packages across hundreds of categories, displaying data on weekly downloads, monthly commits, and even GitHub stars. There are other search conduits that serve a similar function, for example GitHub itself and open source package registries such as NPM, PyPi, and Maven; however, Openbase goes further by offering granular categorization and search filters and deeper insights around development activity, popularity, and maintenance. But more than that, Openbase is also opening things up to user reviews. Think Yelp for open source, founder and CEO Lior Grossman told VentureBeat.

Above: Openbase: Reviews and ratings for Vue JavaScript framework

A graduate of Y Combinators (YC) summer 2020 program, Openbase today announced it has raised a $3.6 million in a seed round of funding led by Zeev Ventures, with participation from YC and 20 angel investors, including notable figures from the open source world such as Herokus former CEO Adam Gross, Docker cofounder Sbastien Pahl, and Netlify founders Mathias Biilmann and Christian Bach. Yelp CEO and cofounder Jeremy Stoppelman also participated in the round.

Openbase said that it currently supports all JavaScript packages, though it does also support additional languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, and Rust) in beta, something that its fresh investment will help it go deeper on. In terms of how all the packages appear on Openbase, well, Grossman said that the process is 100% automatic and is always up-to-date. We use the APIs of package registries to make sure that all new packages appear immediately, and new versions of packages are scanned and updated within Openbase.

Above: How Facebooks React library looks on Openbase

The company said that it has grown its platform to more than 500,000 developers a month in just over a year, and hopes to build on that through its unique analysis and insights of packages that arent available elsewhere, according to Grossman. This includes displaying a packages star count evolution (i.e., has it improved or deteriorated?), the average time between major and minor releases, and how long it takes to resolve issues.

The issue of online reviews is something of a thorny subject across the online world, with review bombing and similar antics often used to nefarious ends. Indeed, many open source developers work completely for free in their spare time, so its entirely conceivable that a platform such as Openbase could deter developers if the review system is misused. Grossman said that the company takes reviews very seriously and has put measures in place to counter some of the potential downsides.

We currently moderate each and every review that goes on the platform, to verify the authenticity, legitimacy, and quality of the review, and well keep doing that for the foreseeable future to ensure high quality of reviews, Grossman said. We have built an entire back-office system specifically for the purpose of moderating reviews.

Additionally, there is a flag button that allows users to report problematic reviews, with Openbase investigating each case by itself. Such a system might not be sustainable in the long run, though, which is why the company may delegate some of this responsibility to the community as it grows. Right now, most of this work is done internally, [but] over time we would like to involve the community more in these efforts by appointing community moderators, Grossman said.

While Openbase has yet to implement a business model, Openbase will be entirely free for developers to use. The company eventually plans to introduce a subscription model for vendors, so that companies spanning the API, SaaS, infrastructure, and developer tools space pay for more customization, enhanced call-to-actions, and to have their package promoted throughout Openbase.

Ultimately, Openbase could serve as a valuable inroad to qualified leads. Although it doesnt work with companies directly, it does claim to serve developers across the spectrum, from indies and freelancers to employees at Facebook, Google, and Amazon. With 500,000 developers visiting Openbase every month, were at the decision point for billions of dollars in IT spent, Grossman said.

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Open Source Software Leader the Eclipse Foundation Officially Transitions to EU-based Governance – GlobeNewswire

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Eclipse Foundation, one of the worlds largest open source software foundations, today announced the formal establishment of the Eclipse Foundation AISBL, an international non-profit association based in Brussels. The new Belgian entity launches with the support of founding members Bosch, Daimler TSS, IBM, and SAP. By moving its legal residence from the United States to Europe, the Eclipse Foundation has created a global institution that builds on its existing membership base, active developer community, and strong institutional relationships to enable collaboration and the free flow of open source software innovation throughout the entire world.

The Eclipse Foundation is already the largest open source software foundation in Europe in terms of staff, projects, developers, and members, so the formalization of our AISBL makes a great deal of sense for us and the EU, said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. I firmly believe that establishing this new organization will help to accelerate the drive to digitization throughout the EU and provide a new engine for the development of innovative and open technologies across the continent and beyond.

The Eclipse Foundation already has more than 170 members and over 900 committers based in Europe. The formalization of the Eclipse Foundation AISBL non-profit association will enable it to leverage its EU presence and recent international growth to foster global industry collaboration on open source projects in strategic technologies, such as the cloud, edge computing, artificial intelligence, connected vehicles, telecommunications, and the Internet of Things.

Open source is proven to be the most viable way to deliver complex, sustainable technology innovation and adoption across industry sectors. As outlined in its new white paper, the Eclipse Foundation recognizes the important role open source will play in driving the digital and industrial transformations called for by the European Commission in its recent strategies. Contributions from a broad cross-section of European companies and governmental organizations to open source projects will be key to ensuring that these emerging technologies are fit for Europe, designed with consideration for the privacy and security of individuals and organizations, and have environmental impact in mind.

Supported by over 330 members globally, including adding more than 90 new members in 2020 alone, the Eclipse Foundation has an established international reach and reputation, and a track record of enabling co-innovation earned over more than 16 years. The Foundations more than 375 open source projects have resulted in over 240 million lines of code a more than 13 billion shared investment. The organizations members include industry leaders who value the Foundations open innovation processes and its unique Working Group governance model that makes it possible to share intellectual property without the threat of antitrust and regulatory challenges.

We have updated resources and information on our plans and how interested parties can get involved at eclipse.org/europe. Resources include:

Quotes from Members and Supporters

BoschIt is great that the Eclipse Foundation has finalized its transition to the EU, said Dr. Stefan Ferber, CEO of Bosch.IO. This move is going to serve as a catalyst for European organizations that want to leverage the potential of open source technologies to speed their own innovation and increase their competitive advantage.

Daimler TSSOpen source software underpins the most significant and widely used technologies today and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, said Basem Vaseghi, Daimler TSS head of FOSS Competency Group. Were thrilled to join the Eclipse Foundation on this journey as we help to enable the next wave of open source adoption and contribution.

IBMIBM and the Eclipse Foundation have been working to expand the adoption of open source technology around the world for nearly two decades, said Todd Moore, vice president of Open Technology and Advocacy, IBM. We look forward to continuing to support the Eclipse Foundation, to enhance its international expansion, and to advance open hybrid cloud technologies.

SAP

If you peek behind the curtain of more recent innovations, you will often find a foundation that is built on open source contributions. As a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, we know that it has been fostering open collaboration in the industry for more than a decade, said Juergen Mueller, chief technology officer and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. This move will strengthen the foundation's world-wide communities and help to boost the use of open source technologies in Europe, enabling organizations to innovate faster and gain competitive advantages.

About the Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable, and business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. The Foundation is home to the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE, and over 375 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, and frameworks for cloud and edge applications, IoT, AI, automotive, systems engineering, distributed ledger technologies, open processor designs, and many others. The Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit association supported by over 330 members, including industry leaders who value open source as a key enabler for their business strategies. To learn more, follow us on Twitter @EclipseFdn, LinkedIn or visit eclipse.org.

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Collaborating through open source to advance AI – TechRadar

Artificial intelligence is one of those hype phrases that comes with its fair share of baggage: will its potential ever be realized; will it enhance humans, or make them obsolete; is it really that revolutionary?

One area of the debate that is often overlooked - one of the more positive aspects of modern innovation in fact - is the way big tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to help progress AI. These companies have been the focus of much criticism over the last few years, consolidating their influence and dominating specific parts of our lives but when it comes to AI, something is different. That something is open source.

The sheer number of open source tools available to developers - from libraries to frameworks, IDEs, data lakes, streaming, model serving and inference solutions, and even the recent end-to-end tool aggregator, Kubeflow, means businesses can now harness all the knowledge they have accumulated over the years. In other words, open source has become that common ground for companies that would traditionally be seen as competitors. They are already working closer than many suspect, and it is the unique combination of AI and open source that will foster better relationships moving forward.

The benefits of open source technology to IT development have been well documented over the years. The first open source program, the launch of Netscape Navigator in 1998, is said to be one of the initial starting points for this trend. The strategy Netscape chose was to emphasize the business potential of sharing the softwares source code. As with science, if all researchers kept their methods secret, progress and innovation would take place much more slowly. With developers racing to deliver the next big thing, secure and easy-to-deploy software frameworks are essential to supporting this.

However, there are numerous barriers for businesses looking to develop successful AI-based technologies. It is no secret that AI and machine learning development can be an expensive process. Not only that, but development requires significant computing power and data sets in place to build and train an advanced model. The open source community offers potential solutions to these challenges by encouraging collaboration as well as expertise and resource sharing. For example, open source software allows IT management teams to access frameworks, data sets, workflows, and software models in the public domain and as such reduces training costs. At the same time, the open source community is always monitoring the code for flaws and vulnerabilities - adding an extra layer of security and also making such concerns a common responsibility.

In another front, the rise of ops methodologies has greatly increased the efficiency of developers to bring solutions into production. As an example, Kubernetes - the open source platform which automates the deployment and management of containerized applications - has become a mainstream technology for enterprises to get into DevOps, and is now being extended to Machine Learning ops (MLops), allowing complicated AI workloads to be kept up to date.

It will come as little surprise that big tech companies have traditionally been private with their source codes, libraries and methodologies. Which poses the question as to what makes AI the differentiator for these giants to begin revealing methods from the core of their businesses and unleashing their own open source APIs?

Essentially, the progression of AI remains paramount, and big tech companies have made leaps and bounds in developing the technology over the past few years. Open source allows any developer or IT team to facilitate cheaper, faster, more flexible and secure deployment. Development through open source helps accelerate the adoption of numerous frameworks and software solutions through support from a large community of contributors. So, with big tech embracing open source, their work can then be further developed, explored, adapted and improved. Looking to the future where AI is expected to be ingrained into everyday life, open sourcing AI will foster innovation and reach maturity even sooner.

Google is one company leading the way, having made its popular machine learning framework, TensorFlow, open to the public. This subsequently led to the creation of TensorFlow Extended (TFX) which matured into Kubeflow, an open source project designed to enable using machine learning pipelines to orchestrate complicated workflows running on Kubernetes, all based on Googles internal method.

Meanwhile, Facebook has open-sourced DeepFocus, its AI-powered framework for rendering natural, realistic focus effects in virtual reality (VR), and the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit has also embraced open source with the ultimate aim of training deep learning algorithms to function like the human brain.

Its also important to remember that all big tech companies are made up of people. In particular, the machine learning field has a long history of being very open and cooperative. Those running the ML labs inside of Google, Facebook and Microsoft have been pioneering the field for decades and have always worked fairly transparently and cooperatively. A key reason we have seen such major advancement is precisely that effective cooperation.

Ultimately, trust is the key factor here. Big tech companies have seen the trust in them dwindle because of the consolidation of personal data they hold, and the perceived notion of the unnecessary power and influence it allows them to hold. But now, these companies are becoming completely open as it relates to the development of this technology, which will form the backbone of our future.

Even over the past six months which have been typified by massive world change as a result of COVID-19, tech collaborations have emerged, such as Apple and Google jointly working on a contact tracing solution.

Going forward, these ongoing relationships will likely spark a new era whereby big tech and even public sector organizations work together in order to foster innovation and help overcome crises. And with such established tech companies betting so heavily on the openness of AI, it is clear that its development will continue to transform and flourish in the near future.

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Open Source Software Industry Market Growth Projection from 2020 to 2025 – The Pinstripe Empire

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The Open Source Software Industry market research report is an elaborate analysis of this industry vertical that covers this business space with respect to numerous parameters like the industrial policy, macroeconomic policies, industrial layout characteristics, as well as the development trends over the projected timeline. The current status of the marketplace and how it will impact the potential investments in the industry, alongside a gist of the enterprise competition trends and the advantages and disadvantages of the enterprise products have also been elucidated in the report. In tandem, the study incorporates a pivotal scientific analysis on the industry downstream buyers, raw materials, etc.

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O’Reilly Announces 2021 Superstream Series Lineup and Dates – Business Wire

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OReilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced its 2021 Superstream Series lineup. Beginning this month, OReilly will present its most popular conference franchises Software Architecture, Infrastructure & Ops, Open Source Software (OSCON), Strata Data, and Artificial Intelligencein a multipart virtual format.

First introduced in 2020, the OReilly Superstream Series offers a collection of virtual conferences featuring expert speakers who deliver talks and training sessions on the most prominent subjects and emerging trends in technology. Each event addresses different topics, with unique sessions covered in half-day blocks. Suitable for participants of all levels, the Superstream Series is exclusive to OReilly members, and all events are recorded for future viewing on oreilly.com.

Last year, more than 1 million users registered for OReillys virtual events and live online training courses led by industry experts, including over 30,000 registrants for the Superstream Series. This year, OReilly separates the popular Strata Data & AI conference into two distinguished events designating focus on either data or AI, duly titled Strata Data and Artificial Intelligence.

With the rise of remote work, we were pleased to see the immediate popularity of OReillys live online learning and events, said Laura Baldwin, president of OReilly. We are excited to announce a new year of our Superstream Series, which will provide the OReilly community with virtual opportunities to accelerate knowledge in all facets of business and technology. This years lineup offers tailored sessions on the most notable topics and trends that will provide attendees with new insights and valuable skills from key innovators through live sessions and interactive tutorials.

Registration for the Superstream Series is now open. Dates and subject matter include:

Software Architecture

Infrastructure & Ops

Open Source Software (OSCON)

Strata Data (Sponsored by Intel)

Artificial Intelligence (Sponsored by Intel)

Sponsorship opportunities still exist for several of these events in 2021. For information on sponsoring a Superstream, please contact: sponsorships@oreilly.com.

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AirHop Communications Joins the Open Networking Foundation to Collaborate on 5G Near-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller – Business Wire

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AirHop Communications, a leader in 4G and 5G Network Intelligence software platforms and solutions, today announced it has become a member of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit operator led consortium driving transformation of access and edge network infrastructure and business models leveraging network disaggregation, open source software and software defined standards. As a member of the ONF, AirHop will join the Software Defined Radio Access Network (SD-RAN) project community which is comprised of leading operators and technology companies who are focused on building open source components for the open RAN space in compliance with the O-RAN architecture and specifications. A key deliverable of SD-RAN is the development of an open source near-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (n-RT-RIC) along with a set of exemplar xApps for controlling the RAN.

AirHop solutions provide RAN intelligence using real-time coordination for performance optimization of 4G and 5G networks, delivering applications for automated configuration optimization, interference management, mobility optimization and extensibility for new customer driven optimization use cases.

We are pleased to welcome AirHop into the SD-RAN ecosystem, stated Timon Sloane, Vice President Marketing and Ecosystem, ONF. Open RAN is all about creating the ability to build multivendor solutions in the RAN space, and the SD-RAN community is committed to leveraging the open source ONOS-RIC platform as a unifying element to help build solutions combining RU/CU/DU elements with xApps from a mix of vendors. It is positive to see AirHop embracing this approach and their commitment to build xApps that are compatible with this vision in collaboration with the broader SD-RAN community of operators and vendors.

ONF is recognized as the leader of open source software solutions in SDN, NFV and Cloud technologies for telecom operators. We are excited to join ONF on the SD-RAN project, noted Joe Thome, Vice President of Business Development for AirHop. We share a common goal with the ONF community to bring O-RAN based open source n-RT-RIC solutions with mission critical, high value and commercial grade xApps to operators as quickly as possible.

About AirHop Communications

AirHop Communications is a leading network intelligence software company based in San Diego, California. AirHops flagship eSON near-real-time Self-Organizing Network (SON) system delivers coordinated optimization of network performance and end-user experience for 4G & 5G radio access networks. eSON is a fully virtualized cloud-native, massively scalable, high availability and commercially hardened platform supporting both traditional network architectures and Open RAN architectures and open interfaces. AirHops eSON360 Analytics solution is delivering ML and AI based network optimization applications that leverage data sources across the RAN and eSON platform. AirHops solutions are backed by a comprehensive portfolio of patents delivering flexible cloud-native deployments, scalable software and applications, and comprehensive APIs for multi-vendor support. For more information, please visit http://www.airhopcomm.com.

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What are Supply Chain Attacks, and How to Guard Against Them – Data Center Knowledge

Remediation of the fallout from the massive breach of SolarWinds network management tools which affected up to 18,000 organizations could cost companies billions.

In the breach, the attackers were able to compromise the update process of a widely used piece of SolarWinds software. In cybersecurity circles, this is referred to as a supply chain attack an especially devastating variety of cyber aggression. By compromising just one vendor, attackers may get access to all the vendors customers.

Related: The List of Known SolarWinds Breach Victims Grows, as Do Attack Vectors

US national security costs could also be significant, since the list of breached IT organizations included those of the Pentagon, the Department of State, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Four federal agencies the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) issued a joint statement saying that the SolarWinds attack was "likely Russian in origin."

Related: What Data Center IT Security Pros Must Know About the SolarWinds Vulnerability

SolarWinds may be a seismic event in government cybersecurity, but it's not the first major supply chain attack we've seen. And its not the first one Russia has launched on a global basis.

In 2017, Russian actors compromised Ukrainian accounting software as part of an attack designed to target the country's infrastructure, but the malware spread quickly to other countries. NotPetya wound up doing more than $10 billion in damage and disrupted operations for multinational corporations such as Maersk, FedEx, and Merck.

Any tech company is a potential target. Nation state actors have the deep resources and skill sets necessary for supply chain attacks, able to penetrate even the most security-conscious firms.

Even security vendors can be targets. In the SolarWinds case, one of the higher-profile companies breached was FireEye, one of the most well-known cybersecurity vendors. FireEye said the attackers didn't get into customer-facing systems, and that they only got access to penetration tools used for security testing. But the fact that a company like FireEye got hit at all is worrisome.

Another example came in November 2020, when another leading cyber security company, Sophos, suffered a data breach that exposed some sensitive customer information.

This fall, security vendor Immuniweb said in a research report that 97 percent of the world's top 400 cybersecurity companies had data leaks or other security incidents exposed on the dark web and that 91 companies had exploitable website security vulnerabilities.

Supply chain attacks aren't a recent development. In 2011, RSA Security admitted that its SecurID tokens were hacked. One of its customers, Lockheed Martin, was attacked as a result.

If these vendors are potentially vulnerable, every vendor is.

Attacks like the SolarWinds one, which compromise commercial software vendors, are one of three types of supply chain attacks. The other categories are attacks on open source software projects and direct interference by nation states in the products their domestic vendors make (such as Chinas alleged leveraging of Huaweis global install base).

According to Sonatype's 2020 State of the Software Supply Chain report, supply chain attacks targeting open source software projects are a major issue for enterprises, since 90 percent of all applications contain open source code and 11 percent of those have known vulnerabilities.

For example, in the 2017 Equifax breach, which the company said cost it nearly $2 billion, attackers took advantage of an unpatched Apache Struts vulnerability.

And 21 percent of companies said they had experienced an open source-related breach in the previous 12 months.

But attackers don't have to wait around for a vulnerability to surface in open source software. Over the last few years, they've begun creating their own vulnerabilities, deliberately compromising the open source development and distribution process. It's been effective.

According to the Sonatype survey, these kinds of next-generation attacks increased 430 percent over the previous year.

Why bother to hack into a software company when you can just order it to install malware in its products?

That's not so much of an option for Russia, not a major technology exporter. For China, it is.

"Compromised electronics in US military, government and critical civilian platforms give China potential backdoors to compromise these systems," said US Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Mark Warner (D-Virginia) in a statement announcing the bipartisan 2019 MICROCHIPS act.

"Almost all nation states, industries, and enterprises are overexposed to, for example, China and other low-cost supply sub-chains," said Steve Wilson, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research.

The interconnectedness of software is impossible to unravel, he told DCK. "You should be wary of third-party providers."

So, what can data center security managers do?

"The harsh reality is that the state of our software supply chain is mediocre at best, partially due to the overwhelming complexity of the software supply chain itself," said Liz Miller, VP and principal analyst at Constellation.

But there are some steps that companies can take, she told DCK.

To start with, they can ask their technology vendors for a "bill of materials that lists all the code components that they use, she said. This can help identify potential vulnerabilities related to open source component vulnerabilities.

"Organizations with high aversion to risk can consider the additional step of conducting a code audit prior to implementation," she said. One tool that helps companies do that is Synopsys' Black Duck, she said.

One lesson data centers should not take away from the SolarWinds breach is that installing supplier patches is a bad idea.

The attack did compromise the automated software update system, but it's a lot more dangerous to leave known vulnerabilities in your systems, said Tsvi Korren, field CTO at Aqua Security. "It requires some painstaking work to compromise the internal systems of a company," he said.

By comparison, exploiting a known vulnerability is quick, easy, and appealing to attackers of all ability levels. "Leaving vulnerabilities out there is something we want to avoid," Korren told DCK.

Security managers can ask their vendors for some assurances, however. "It's reasonable to demand to know what their internal chain of custody is," he said. "How do they ensure the integrity of their process all the way from writing a line of code to the packaging and distribution?"

Unfortunately, there's no industry standard that specifically covers security of vendors software development process, he said. "But I could see a set of standards emerging that come out of this incident, and that would be a good thing."

An organization working on this task is the Consortium for Information and Software Quality, a special interest group under the technology standards body Object Management Group.

"One of the standards we're working on is a software bill of materials," said executive director Bill Curtis. "It will tell you if there are known vulnerabilities." It's expected to be released in the spring, he said.

Curtis suggested that software buyers ask their vendors to audit their software for vulnerabilities. "Most vendors won't like that idea and will fight it," he said.

A lot of the work is being driven by the federal government, he said.

"The Department of Defense has gotten royally fed up with secrets being stolen for our weapons," he said. "They realized that the problem is in the supply chain. One of the contractors that's weak gets penetrated, and they'll work their way up the supply chain."

The defense sector is already asking for more from their software suppliers, said Joe McMann, CSO and cyber strategy lead at Capgemini North America.

The defense sector is mandating the Cyber Maturity Model Certification, he said.

Shimon Oren, VP of research at Deep Instinct, said data centers can also ask their vendors if they have SOC-2 certification, where outside auditors check if a vendor has adequate security in place. And there is also an ISO standard specifically focused on software development.

"Software vendors that have those two are more likely to be better protected in general," he told DCK, though it's no guarantee. "It doesn't make them immune."

It may be too late to save the business, but SolarWinds is now going to implement some of the security practices that experts are recommending customers start asking for.

In a statement, incoming CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna promised that the company is beefing up its security controls, with a particular focus on software development environments, resetting all user credentials and enforcing multi-factor authentication.

SolarWinds will also add more automated and manual checks to make sure that compiled releases match the source code, expand its vulnerability management program, and perform penetration testing on its software using third-party tools to analyze source code for vulnerabilities.

These are all steps that every software vendor should take, before they become the next SolarWinds.

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