Ortelius Blog

Topics include Supply Chain Security, Vulnerability Management, Neat Tricks, and Contributor insights.

Posts in 2023
  • Utkarsh Sharma Achieves Gold Legend Status

    Monday, December 11, 2023 in Ortelius News

    The Ortelius Community Congratulates Utkarsh Sharma, their First Contributor to Achieve Gold Legend Status The Ortelius community is pleased to congratulate Utkarsh Sharma, the first recipient of the Ortelius Gold Legend Recognition Award. Gold …

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  • Ortelius Holiday Gathering December 2023

    Friday, December 08, 2023 in Ortelius News

    Celebrating our Amazing Community of Committers On December 8, 2023, 9AM MT, the Ortelius community held their 2nd ‘Holiday Gathering’ to celebrate the community committers of Ortelius. The celebration started with “Beer and …

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  • Exposing and Controlling Open-Source Within Your Supply Chain

    Wednesday, November 08, 2023 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Introduction Open-source software has witnessed a remarkable evolution over the past few decades. The concept of freely sharing code and collaborating on software development has given rise to a vast ecosystem of open-source projects and …

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  • Hacktoberfest 2023

    Monday, August 14, 2023 in Ortelius News

    Digital Ocean celebrates open source by hosting Hacktoberfest each October. During this month, you can earn limited edition swag by contributing changes to the Ortelius project. Everyone is invited to participate regardless of your expertise level …

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  • Ortelius 2023 Technology Oversight Committee

    Thursday, July 06, 2023 in Ortelius News

    The 2023 Ortelius Technology Oversite Committee Election Results Congratulations and ’thank you’ to the first Ortelius Technology Oversight Committee. The general community thanks all of you who are willing to step up and take on a …

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  • Emporous Joins Ortelius as a Sub-project

    Sunday, May 07, 2023 in Ortelius News

    Ortelius Announces the Emporous Subproject Ortelius adopts Emporous, a universal data aggregation framework, to aid in cataloging software supply chain assets. May 8th, 2023 - Vancouver, Canada. Today, Ortelius, an open-source project incubating at …

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  • Getting Started as an Ortelius Open Source Contributor

    Monday, April 10, 2023 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    First - Don’t Get Overwhelmed Are you interested in becoming an Open Source Project contributor but feeling a bit overwhelmed with getting started? If so, don’t worry, because you’re not alone. Many developers feel the same way …

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  • Leveraging Ortelius for Vulnerability Tracking

    Friday, March 31, 2023 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    More Complexity in the Software Supply Chain The rise of open-source software has increased the complexity of the software supply chain, making it essential to have a complete understanding of the dependencies and vulnerabilities within the …

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  • The SBOM Big Picture

    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    What are SBOMs and Why are They Important? Simply put, an SBOM is a Software Bill of Materials, i.e. a list of what components were used in constructing a particular application or microservice. Those components may be open source libraries and/or …

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  • Using Syft with Ortelius

    Wednesday, March 22, 2023 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Ortelius and the Consumption of SBOMs Core to the effort of hardening your software development process is SBOM generation and SBOM Consumption. Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) reports are a critical tool in understanding all of the parts of your …

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