OpenSSF Scorecard is a tool to help open source projects reduce software supply-chain risks. Scorecard analyzes projects against a series of heuristics and generates scores from 0–10 for the project…
The compromise of VoIP provider 3CX is just one of the latest incidents to highlight gaps in software supply chain security - and the need for a new approach to…
In this post, we will explore how Yahoo leverages Sigstore, in concert with Athenz, an open source platform for managing X.509 certificates, as an internal Certificate Authority, to sign and verify…
Open source vulnerability scanners now increasingly support OpenVEX, helping open source users reduce the pain of managing vulnerabilities and the burden of false positives. These new integrations with OpenVEX can…
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.
A few weeks ago, the OpenSSF Best Practices Working Group published the Source Code Management (SCM) Best Practices guide. This guide is the result of a collaboration of multiple leading…
In our increasingly digitized world, data reigns supreme. Alongside traditional valuable information like customer records and bank details, data on interactions and activity has become more valuable to companies. As…
While several articles have been published about how to run your own Sigstore instance, it’s useful to understand how the public good instance is administered – both in terms of…
Prossimo continues to advance the functionality and scalability of the Rustls TLS library and the Rust for Linux effort thanks to $530,000 in funding from the OpenSSF’s Alpha-Omega project. This…
Early adopters of SBOM have proposed new standards as well as updates to existing standards to specify the status of each vulnerability alongside the SBOM itself. In this context, existing…