Join Us at the OSS Security Meetup in Tokyo, Japan
We are very excited to announce that our second OSS Security Meetup in Japan will be held at Cybozu Tokyo Office on June 2nd in Tokyo, hosted by Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Members.
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OpenSSF Announces SLSA Version 1.0 Release
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is proud to announce the release of version 1.0 of Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA). SLSA is an OpenSSF project that provides specifications for software supply chain security, established by community expert consensus. The stable release of the SLSA 1.0 Build Track lowers the barrier of entry for…
Assessing Product Risk Using SBOMs and OpenSSF ScorecardÂ
The use of SBOMs is becoming increasingly essential in managing software supply chains. The main consumption use case is for evaluating dependencies known-vulnerabilities risk, by mapping the dependencies listed in the SBOM to CVEs. In this blog post, we propose using SBOMs alongside OpenSSF Scorecard to evaluate a product's risk.
SBOMs, So Far, So Good, So What?
We’ve been discussing the creation of SBOMs for over ten years, but has it gotten us any closer to hardening our software development practices? SBOMs provide critical supply chain data, but we are simply not using the data to drive our supply chain decisions. Requiring SBOM generation alone is not the answer. What is the…
OpenSSF Best Practices Working Group Provides Security Guidance and Tools for Open Source Developers
The goal of the Best Practices Working Group is to provide open source developers with recommendations on best practices around development and security. This working group focuses on providing developers with guidance and tools in order with an easy way to learn and apply them and has been part of the OpenSSF since the very…
Taking the Pulse of Leading Software Repositories’ Security
Each software repository faces a challenging task to protect producers and consumers of open-source software. They must defend against a variety of threats, juggling a complex menu of options to harden their systems and procedures against attackers. The OpenSSF Securing Software Repository Working Group (SSR WG) last year surveyed the maintainers of 11 leading software…
Clarifying Sigstore Terms of Use
The primary activity for The Linux Foundation projects is open collaboration on technical challenges that deliver tangible improvements for developers, companies, industries, and society at large. The focus we’ve always taken is on open source code as a starting point for truly great outcomes that improve the technologies we - and the world - depend…
The Role of Foundations in Securing OSS
Security used to be something of an afterthought in software development. Security was clunky or inconvenient, often because it was a ‘bolt-on’. That has rapidly changed over the last two years. Now, the world has finally realised that security needs to be ‘baked-in’, not ‘bolted-on’. Meaningful and impactful improvements can be achieved in OSS security engineering…
SBOM Everywhere Update and Python SPDX-Tools
SBOM Everywhere is a Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Security Tooling Working Group of the OpenSSF. In September we funded work on the SPDX Python library and are now happy to report the recent 0.7.0 release of the Python SPDX-Tools package, which is available to download on GitHub and PyPI. Read on for more…
Improving Supply Chain Security: IBM as a user and a contributor to Open Source Security Foundation Scorecard
Scorecard is becoming a key part of IBM’s review and curation of the open-source software in our products and services. IBM is committed to helping address the systemic security issues in modern SW supply chains and believes an important part of this effort is to help the open-source ecosystem improve the overall security of OS…