Software Buyers
Supply Chain Security for the Firmware, Devices, and Software You Buy
Security's oldest problem: trusting the software you buy before knowing where it came from or whether that's earned.
NetRise gives you the evidence to validate purchased software before you trust it, and to trace a risk's origin and reach once it's inside.
The Challenge
The Software You Buy Is a Black Box. Today, You Just Have to Trust It.
Firmware, appliances, and applications arrive as compiled artifacts you can't open. That black box doesn't stay contained: it becomes a different problem for every team depending on what you bought, each judging it from the outside in.
Where Vendor Assurances Stop Short
Vendor Questionnaires
Capture what a vendor says it ships, not what's compiled into the software you received.
Security Ratings
Score a vendor's outside-in hygiene; they never see inside the software you bought.
Vendor-supplied SBOMs
List what the vendor declared, and drift out of date with every build after.
Vulnerability Scanners
Report only cataloged CVEs; a vendor with no NVD entry can scan clean while shipping known, exploited flaws.
With NetRise
Replace Blind Trust with Evidence
A device comes back clean while known-exploited flaws sit in components its vendor inherited but never wrote. Turbine analyzes what's actually compiled inside those appliances and firmware, so you catch the exploitable flaws scanners and public databases miss.
A vulnerability is disclosed and the first question is which of your products contain the affected component. Turbine answers it from an inventory that already exists, so you scope exposure in minutes instead of tracing by hand across spreadsheets, questionnaires, and vendor emails.
Vendors self-attest at a single point in time, and their software keeps changing after the review closes. NetRise verifies what a vendor actually shipped, re-checked with every version, so your program rests on evidence, not a questionnaire's snapshot.
Control assessments are marked effective on documentation and attestation. NetRise adds evidence from the software actually running in your environment, so controls rest on what's there, not on what a vendor said about it.
The Solution
Two Products. One Complete Answer.
Turbine independently verifies what components are inside the software you buy — from the shipped firmware, appliance, or application, with no source code required. Provenance determines whether that software should be trusted and traces how far a risk reaches across your vendors and products. Together they replace vendor claims and self-attestation with evidence from the shipped software itself.
NetRise Turbine
NetRise Turbine® analyzes the delivered software directly, no source code or vendor cooperation required. A device can come back patched while the vulnerable library is still compiled into the firmware underneath.
- Present — the component is in the vendor's software.
- Reachable — it's exposed and can be used, not just sitting in the shipped software.
What Turbine finds in the software you buy:
- 3×more reachable vulnerabilities surfaced in purchased firmware and appliances than manifest-based tools report
- 10k+inapplicable kernel-CVE findings auto-resolved per scan, so a vendor's device doesn't flood your backlog
- 13kcertificates and 128 private keys found in a single patched vendor device — not one of them a CVE
NetRise Provenance
NetRise Provenance® maps the open-source components inside vendor software back to the people and projects behind them, and judges each on three dimensions.
- Blast Radius — how far a risky package or maintainer reaches across your vendors and products.
- Repository Health & Security Signals — whether the project behind it is active and maintained, or decaying.
- Contributor & Organization Attribution — who maintains it, where they're based, and whether they're tied to known risk.
What Provenance maps across the supply chain:
- 3M+open-source repositories tracked, so the projects behind your vendors' software are already mapped
- 10M+packages traced to their upstream source, connecting vendor components back to where they came from
- 100M+components profiled with organization and geographic data, to judge who's behind the software you rely on
What You Can Prove with NetRise
Confirm which vulnerabilities are actually present and reachable in the software you buy.
Scope exposure across vendors and products in minutes when an incident hits.
Start vendor assessments with evidence from the shipped software, not attestation.
Base control-effectiveness and residual-risk ratings on what's actually in the software, not on the documentation a vendor provides.