Innovator Spotlight: Lineaje

Attending Black Hat 2024 with Cyber Defense Magazine is always an enlightening experience, giving me the opportunity to interview several industry leaders who are paving the way of cybersecurity innovation.  During my interview with Javed Hasan, CEO and Co-Founder of Lineaje, he stressed the importance of understanding the “lineage” of your software. The company’s main mission is clear: organizations must know where their software comes from, what it contains, and how it evolves over time to ensure security and compliance.

Lineaje provides a comprehensive platform designed to answer the critical question: where does your software come from? In a world where over 70% of software is built using third party and open source components, Lineaje ensures that organizations have full visibility into their software supply chain. The company offers solutions that help organizations source, buy, sell, and build software securely by managing software bills of materials (SBOMs) and assessing the inherent risks within the software ecosystem.

Lineaje’s core products include:

• Open-Source Manager: A solution for managing and mitigating risks associated with open-source software.
• Third-Party Risk Manager: This tool allows organizations to assess the risks in the software they buy.
• SBOM360: A tool that helps software developers create, attest, assess, and publish compliant SBOMs.
• SBOM360 Hub: A platform that facilitates secure SBOM distribution across the software supply chain.

What sets Lineaje apart is their unique crawler technology, which can discover deep dependencies within software (up to 20+ levels) and assess critical vulnerabilities that might otherwise go unnoticed​.

A prime example of Lineaje’s impact is seen in organizations with extensive software portfolios, like telecommunications and banking. For instance, a telecom company utilizing Lineaje’s platform was able to efficiently manage thousands of SBOMs for both their internally developed and third-party software, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. By using Lineaje’s SBOM360 and Third-Party Risk Manager, the company gained clear visibility into the vulnerabilities of each software component, reducing security risks and improving their overall cyber defense posture​.

Lineaje offers a unique and holistic approach to managing the risks associated with software supply chains. At a time where compliance, security, and transparency are increasingly critical, Lineaje ensures that organizations have complete control over the security and integrity of their software.

To learn more about Lineaje and how they can help secure your software supply chain, visit their website and explore their offerings.

About the Author

Kylie Amison is a proud alumnus of George Mason University where she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Cybersecurity Engineering with a minor in intelligence analysis and on call reporter for Cyber Defense Magazine

She is working full time at a leading mobile security company as an Application Security Analyst where her main tasking involves pen-testing mobile applications, secure mobile application development, and contributing to exciting projects and important initiatives that are consistently highlighted throughout the security industry.

In addition, Kylie contributed to a startup company as a cybersecurity software developer where she was the lead developer on one of the company’s products; a geopolitical threat intelligence engine that combines a broad assortment of metrics and NLP sentiment analysis to calculate nuanced and real-time threat scores per nation state. Contributing to this initiative has been pivotal in her knowledge of creating secure software and has given her the opportunity to not only develop her first product, but to also start her own startup company, productizing the software and capabilities created in her threat intelligence engine. She is presently co-founder and CTO of Xenophon Analytics.

Throughout all of her experiences and coursework, she has gained essential skills in secure software development, penetration testing, mobile security and a plethora of coding languages. She has further aspirations of going back to school to get a graduate degree in the field of digital forensics and cybersecurity.

Beyond academics and professional life, Kylie enjoys watching anime, reading, and doing anything with nature involved. When asked her ultimate goal in life, she responded with “My goal in life is to learn every single day, and I am proud to be doing just that.”