Cybersecurity leader Trend Micro is partnering up with application security platform Snyk to fight open-source bugs.

Research from Veracode last year found that open-source libraries cause security flaws in 70 percent of apps. Snyk itself has observed a 2.5x growth in open-source vulnerabilities over the past three years.

However, open-source is vital to the advancement of the software development industry. Snyk estimates that around 80 percent of application today is...