OpenSSF
OpenSSF Newsletter – March 2026
TL;DR: đź’° $12.5M New Funding → Anthropic, AWS, Google, and more invest in OSS & AI security 🤝 Ambassador Program Launch → New global initiative to empower community leaders 🛠️ No-Cost Tooling → Kusari Inspector now free for OpenSSF project maintainers 💎 The Gemara Model → A new 7-layer framework for GRC and automated risk…
Introducing the OpenSSF Ambassador Program
We're excited to launch the OpenSSF Ambassador Program - a global community of advocates who will help us promote secure open source development practices worldwide.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: Open Source SecurityCon
Open Source SecurityCon (evolved from Cloud Native SecurityCon) returns for its second event, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The conference advances innovation and collaboration across open source software security and cloud native security. It brings together creators, maintainers, operators, and consumers who are actively involved in securing the software ecosystem.
Securing Agentic AI in Practice: From OpenSSF Guidance to Real-World Implementation
Agentic AI systems and AI-driven software workflows are evolving quickly, with more people building on top of them. With that shift comes new questions around trust, control, provenance, and secure interaction between models, tools, and users. Traditional cybersecurity models are being pushed to their limits, and the security stakes have never been higher.