Alpha-Omega 2024 Annual Report
This post originally appeared on Alpha-Omega and has been revised for the OpenSSF. By Alpha-Omega We’re pleased to share our 2024 annual report. In it we try to convey the...
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Alpha-Omega 2023 Annual Report
In 2023, Alpha-Omega provided ten grants to eight organizations totaling over $2.8 million dollars, with an average grant size of just over $350,000. In partnership with OpenSSF, Alpha-Omega's mission is to catalyze sustainable security improvements within the most critical open source projects and ecosystems. As a Directed Fund with three continuing stakeholders (Google, Amazon Web…
Finding And Fixing Bugs in Open Source Software at Scale with a Grant from Alpha-Omega
OpenRefactory is working alongside Alpha-Omega's principals to report security vulnerabilities at scale in open source projects. It works with the maintainers to get the vulnerabilities fixed.
Alpha-Omega to Continue Support of Rust Foundation Security Initiative in 2024
Today, Alpha-Omega is excited to announce our second year of supporting the Rust Foundation Security Initiative. We believe that this funding will build on the good work and momentum established by the Rust Foundation in 2023. Through this partnership, we are helping relieve maintainer burdens while paving an important path towards a healthier and more…
Alpha-Omega Grant To Help Homebrew Reach SLSA Build Level 2
Alpha-Omega is pleased to announce a grant to the Homebrew project to enable Sigstore attestations and verification of Homebrew packages. When complete the project will allow organizations to securely verify the provenance of the toolchains on their workstations and in their build environments. This is a critical part of securing every software supply chain.Â
PSF Welcomes New Security Developer in Residence with Support from Alpha-Omega
Through funding by the OpenSSF’s Alpha-Omega Project, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) has hired a new security developer in residence as part of a year-long security enhancement initiative. PSF announced their intention to fill this role back in January, and after a thorough search, they have chosen Seth Michael Larson!
Alpha-Omega Project First Year In Review, Plus New Funding Pledge
Alpha-Omega is an OpenSSF project, established in February 2022, with a mission to protect society by improving the security of open source software through direct maintainer engagement and expert analysis, trying to build a world where critical open source projects are secure and that security vulnerabilities are found and fixed quickly. During our first year,…
OpenSSF Project Alpha-Omega Invests in the OpenJS Foundation and jQuery to Help Secure the Consumer Web
Today, we’re excited to share that the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Project Alpha-Omega is committing $350,000 to reduce potential security incidents for jQuery by helping modernize its consumers and its code.
Alpha-Omega Project Announces Over $1.5M in Grants to Critical Open Source Projects and New Omega Analysis Toolchain
As part of the OpenSSF’s continued investment in critical open-source projects, we are happy to announce new partnerships and tooling from the Alpha-Omega Project. Alpha-Omega will sponsor critical security work with a $460K grant to the Rust Foundation. This work expands on funding previously announced earlier this year, bringing our total investment to over $1.5M…
OpenSSF Funds Python and Eclipse Foundations and Acquires SOS.dev through Alpha-Omega Project
As part of the OpenSSF’s continued investment in critical open-source projects, we are pleased to announce that the OpenSSF’s Alpha-Omega Project has committed to $800,000 in funding split equally among the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and the Eclipse Foundation to fund critical security roles. We are also happy to announce that the Secure Open Source…