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Sonatype’s Nexus Repository Manager Expands OSS Coverage, Sees 40% YoY User Growth

Support for CocoaPods, Conda and APT accelerates development and enables improved binary management

Fulton, MDFriday, Oct. 25, 2019Sonatype, the inventors of software supply chain automation, today announced its popular Nexus Repository Manager (NXRM) now includes support for CocoaPods, Conda and APT (Advanced Package Tool) proxy repositories. This additional coverage is part of a concerted effort to accelerate development support of new formats, ensuring NXRM continues to enable users to universally manage software libraries and build artifacts. The Nexus Platform now supports 42 languages and packages. 

This news also comes on the heels of 40% year-over-year growth in number of users across NXRM professional and OSS versions, highlighting its position as the defacto standard within DevOps toolchains worldwide. 

Sonatype Delivers First of its Kind, Automated Malware Prevention for Open Source Libraries

Nexus Intelligence research engine now automatically detects counterfeit and malicious code injections into open source software supply chains

Fulton, MD – Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019 –Today, Sonatype, the inventors of software supply chain automation, announced it has developed new early warning capabilities to detect malicious releases of open source components, known as “counterfeit components,” and block their use within modern software factories. The patent-pending technology, part of the next generation of Sonatype’s Nexus Intelligence, monitors millions of open source projects in real-time to identify abnormal development behavior and suspicious patterns as new component versions are released.

Micro Focus Bolsters Strategic Partnership With Sonatype, Brings Best-In-Class Open Source Security to All Fortify Customers

New Joint Solution Delivers a Single, Fully Integrated Application Security Platform for Managing Open Source Risk and Vulnerabilities for Fortify on Demand and Fortify On-Premise

SANTA CLARA, CA -- Sept. 9, 2019 – Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced an expanded strategic partnership with Sonatype to provide the combined power of Micro Focus' application security as a service, Fortify, and Sonatype's leading automated open source governance solution, to even more customers. The new relationship, which promotes Sonatype as Fortify's preferred Software Composition Analysis (SCA) partner, delivers the advantages of a single, fully integrated application security platform, without compromising depth and capability in managing open source risk and vulnerabilities.

Sonatype Goes Long With Go: Delivers Fully Automated Security Solution for Fast Growing Programming Language

The Nexus Platform now enables Go development teams to automatically control open source risk across the entire software development lifecycle

SAN DIEGO – GopherCon - July 24, 2019 -- Today, Sonatype, the inventors of software supply chain automation, announced full support for Go (Golang) across the Nexus Platform, giving Go development teams an easy way to manage Go packages and automatically eliminate security risk across the entire software development lifecycle, including production applications.  With the addition of Go, the Nexus Platform now supports 42 programming languages and package formats, further meeting the diverse needs of enterprise development teams. 

2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report Reveals Best Practices From 36,000 Open Source Software Development Teams

An additional study of 12,000 commercial software engineering teams identified key characteristics of exemplary secure coding practices

LONDON – DevOps Enterprise Summit - June 25, 2019 -- Sonatype today released its fifth annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report. This year’s report reveals the best practices exhibited by exemplary open source software projects and commercial application development teams. As in years past, it also examines the rapidly expanding supply and continued exponential growth in consumption of open source components.

Sonatype's Nexus User Conference to Bring 2,000 DevSecOps Leaders Together for Free, Live Streamed Event

The June 12 Conference Features 44 Nexus Innovators, Customers and Industry Leaders

Fulton, MD – June 10, 2019 -- Sonatype, the inventors of software supply chain automation, will host its second annual Nexus User Conference on June 12, 2019. The free, live, and online event will bring together more than 2,000 DevOps and DevSecOps practitioners to galvanize the industry and share actionable insights, technical how-to's, and first-hand stories about DevSecOps transformations.

Sonatype Debuts New Capabilities for Red Hat Quay, Offers Users Continuous Container Security for Open Source

BOSTON - Red Hat Summit – May 7, 2019 - Sonatype, the inventors of software supply chain automation, announced new capabilities for Red Hat Quay enterprise container registry enabling modern organizations to automate and enforce open source governance policies in the containerized applications they use every day.

Sonatype Named on Best Workplace Lists by Both Washingtonian Magazine and Battery Ventures

Company CEO also Chosen as a Tech10 Honoree by Baltimore Business Journal

Fulton, Md. – April 29, 2019 — Sonatype, the inventors of software supply chain management, is proud to announce it’s been named one of the 50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies on Glassdoor by Battery Ventures and one of Washingtonian Magazine’s 50 Great Places to Work.

Sonatype and HackerOne Team Up to Make Open Source Safer

Pioneering program makes reporting open source vulnerabilities easier than ever

Fulton, Md.  – March 21, 2019 Sonatype, the inventors of software supply chain management, today announced a partnership with HackerOne, the leading hacker-powered security platform, to create The Central Security Project (CSP). The first-of-its-kind program brings together the ethical hacker and open source communities to streamline the process for reporting and resolving vulnerabilities discovered in libraries housed in The Central Repository, the world’s largest collection of open source components.

5,558 IT Professionals Reveal Patterns of Elite DevSecOps Practices

2019 DevSecOps Community Survey shows mature programs are 700% more likely to automate security, as adversaries accelerate pace

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA Conference – March 4, 2019 Sonatype, the inventors of software supply chain automation, today published findings from its 6th annual DevSecOps Community Survey of 5,558 IT professionals, making it the largest DevSecOps survey ever conducted. The survey, developed in partnership with CloudBees, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, Signal Sciences, 9th Bit, and Twistlock, unveiled a new portrait of what organizations with elite DevSecOps programs look like in the face of accelerating attacks from bad actors.