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Alpha-Omega is an associated project of the OpenSSF, established in February 2022, funded by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and with a mission to protect society by catalyzing sustainable security improvements to the most critical open source software projects and ecosystems. The project aims to build a world where critical open source projects are secure and where security vulnerabilities are found and fixed quickly.

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Organizations join Alpha-Omega because they want to take an active role in improving the security of open source software models.

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ABOUT ALPHA-OMEGA

Partnering with open source software project maintainers to systematically find new, as-yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities in open source code – and get them fixed – to improve global software supply chain security.

Alpha” will work with the maintainers of the most critical open source projects to help them identify and fix security vulnerabilities, and improve their security posture.

Omega” will identify at least 10,000 widely deployed OSS projects where it can apply automated security analysis, scoring, and remediation guidance to their open source maintainer communities.

LATEST FROM ALPHA-OMEGA

Alpha-Omega Announces First Four Grants for Open Source Security of 2024 and Our 2024 OKRs

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We just published our 2023 annual report and 2024 is off to a great start. In this post we’ll cover our first four grants of 2024, totaling over $750,000 and…

Alpha-Omega 2023 Annual Report

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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…

Finding And Fixing Bugs in Open Source Software at Scale with a Grant from Alpha-Omega

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By Munawar Hafiz and Ataf Fazledin Ahamed, OpenRefactory In February of 2023, a group of volunteers inside OpenSSF's Identifying Security Threats working group organized a virtual mini-summit for maintainers of…

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