A significant portion of modern cloud-native applications rely on open source code, offering benefits such as accelerated innovation and transparency. However, teams must be cautious when incorporating open source projects into their applications, as they can introduce various risks, including security vulnerabilities, malware, licensing issues, deprecated libraries, and poor security hygiene. To mitigate these risks, it's essential to practice open source due diligence, stay updated with the latest security advisories, adopt a process for triaging and fixing vulnerabilities, measure security posture over time, and establish metrics to understand the evolution of your organization's security posture. Automated risk reduction tools like Datadog SCA can help streamline these processes, providing real-time visibility into open source components and enabling teams to focus on sensitive production environments and continuously monitor their libraries for security vulnerabilities and licensing issues.