"Software projects are commonly built on top of a mountain of dependencies - external software libraries [developers] incorporate into a project to add functionalities without developing them from scratch... There are simply too many dependencies and versions to keep track of manually, so automation is required," explained Rex Pan, software engineer, Google Open Source Security Team, on the Google blog pages. This highlights the complexity of software projects and the necessity for automated tools to manage dependencies and vulnerabilities.
"With open source vulnerability (OSV) issues always in the spotlight, this could be a welcome development. Google says that OSV-SCALIBR is now the 'primary SCA engine' used within Google for live hosts, code repositories and containers... it helps generate SBOMs, find vulnerabilities and help protect users' data at what Google calls 'Google scale,' i.e. quite big." This underlines the significance of automation in vulnerability management at a large scale.
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