Tidelift CEO and co-founder Donald Fischer and guest speaker Forrester Principal Analyst Sandy Carielli discussed some of the key lessons organizations can learn from Log4Shell along with some critical recommendations organizations can use to prepare for handling similar issues down the road.

Sandy and Donald talked about how enterprise organizations should:

• Use software bills of materials to better understand and manage their open source software supply chain.
• Enhance their visibility of the open source components being used and the associated transitive dependencies.
• Focus on proactive open source maintenance and how to better prepare their teams to quickly mitigate the risk of future vulnerabilities.
• Consider the role open source maintainers play in risk planning and mitigation.