"I do think [that it's] important to just underscore how prevalent open source is," notes Eng. Gartner data shows that 95% of enterprises use open source code in their internal projects, he says.

Open source refers to software or other projects with source code that can be viewed, modified, or upgraded by anyone. Learn about the pros and cons of open source.

On average, 26% of the total lines of code in the 10 largest open source projects consisted of memory-unsafe code. Even projects written in memory-safe languages were at risk from dependencies on ...