What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #73 – S3E25 Securing the Source: Navigating AI Velocity, CRA Compliance, and Dependency Debt with Abby Kearns
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Summary
In this episode of What’s in the SOSS, host Sally Cooper sits down with technology executive and ActiveState CEO Abby Kearns to break down the rapidly evolving open source security landscape.
Together, they dissect why reactive post-build scanning fails to prevent dependency debt, how machine-speed AI ingestion is overwhelming human maintainers, and what the impending EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) mandates mean for enterprise software supply chains.
Abby offers actionable insights into why building a “start secure, stay secure” paradigm is essential for modern software pipelines and why open source communities must unite to redefine repository economics in an AI-dominated world.