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Date Published
Author
Josefa Riveros
Word count
741
Language
English
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None

Summary

Snyk has introduced the first phase of its Shared Policies initiative, enabling organizations to create customizable rule sets for managing license compliance across their development projects. This feature, beginning with License policies, allows group-level administrators to set and apply policies to multiple organizations, enhancing scalability and efficiency in open-source license compliance. The new system simplifies license management by consolidating numerous policies into fewer, more manageable ones, with changes automatically applied to all associated projects. Snyk has also implemented a default policy that can be adjusted to meet specific needs, serving as a baseline for new organizations. Looking ahead, Snyk plans to extend its policy capabilities to include security, dependency, and container policies, as well as support for project-level policy application through tags, promising a more granular control over compliance management.