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COTS Security

Secure Your Software Supply Chain.

Secure Your Software Supply Chain 

Gain Visibility to Risk in Licensed Software 

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software applications are a part of every organization. Vulnerabilities in this software present risks to your organization, not the vendors’. This includes vulnerabilities in the open-source components your COTS providers use. 

A vendor-provided Software Bill of Material (SBOM) would make available the information needed to evaluate the risk associated with deploying their software. Unfortunately, this is rarely available as vendors choose to keep secret the components they use. 

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Apply Binary Composition Analysis (BCA)

Inventory, Vulnerabilities, Weaknesses

There is a solution to this problem. CodeSentry is a BCA tool that quickly produces a SBOM without the need for source code and without violating commercial software licenses. Instead of reverse engineering or decompiling the binary, CodeSentry identifies artifacts from open source components that survive compilation to generate an SBOM and a list of known vulnerabilities in the detected components, including any indirect dependencies. 

Implement Trust, But Verify 

Second Check Your Vendors

Most COTS providers understand the importance of secure software to their customers and their reputation. Using CodeSentry allows organizations to verify the security controls of their vendors by producing an independent SBOM and list of vulnerable components. This “Trust, but Verify” approach enables open discussions about the risks associated with deploying COTS software and any compensating controls that may be necessary to mitigate risks. 

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Put CodeSentry Into Practice

Production-Ready Tool

A large multinational financial services company with more than 3,000 employees utilizes COTS applications to support business-critical functions as well as day-to-day productivity. To mitigate exposure risk the company reduced their Software Application Authorization time, to validate and authorize new applications prior to placing into production, from four months to just weeks by introducin binary composition analysis to augment their dedicated penetration testing and overcome cost and scalability challenges.

Our Customers

  • “CodeSonar does a better job of finding the more serious problems, which are often buried deep in the code and sometimes hidden by unusual programming constructs that are hard for other static analysis tools to parse.” GE Aviation

    GE Aviation

  • “The quality of our products starts with ensuring the quality of the software we develop. Good quality software is good for safety and security”


    Piotr Reczek

    Software Team Leader for Merit

Case Studies

Learn how customers gain value using CodeSecure’s solutions via case studies in medical, aerospace, tech, and more.

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  • eLeapPower

    The Challenge: Finding a scalable Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solution to support a lean team of experienced software engineers as they innovate new solutions while adhering to strict software cybersecurity and functional safety requirements in the auto industry.

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  • LeddarTech

    The Challenge: To build the LeddarVision software platform according to automotive industry requirements, starting in the design stage, and integrate checks in the development workflow in compliance with ISO26262 functional safety requirements for road vehicles, MISRA C, MISRA C++ and AUTOSAR C++ coding standards and security requirements such as CERT C++.

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  • Telit

    CodeSecure Helps Telit Deliver Safety Faster. Telit is a global leader in cellular-based M2M and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that have been connecting the world from the inside out for nearly 20 years.

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  • Piper

    Transportation – CodeSecure Helps Optimize Smart Sensors and Technologies to Increase Transportation Throughput.

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  • Petroleum Experts

    Industrial – CodeSecure Helps Deliver High Quality, Safe, Secure Software and Ensure Customer Satisfaction.

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  • NASA-White Sands: The Benefit of Static Analysis

    Aerospace – CodeSecure Contributes to NASA Study Exploring the Benefits of Static Analysis.

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