On December 5th during Open Source Summit Japan, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) hosted OpenSSF Day Japan 2022, a half-day event dedicated to exploring ongoing efforts to improve the security of open source software (OSS). Throughout the day, contributors and thought leaders shared their ideas and experiences with OSS security through sessions on subjects…
Log4Shell, a vulnerability in the widely-used open source Java logging library Log4j, was disclosed in December 2021, roughly two months after I took the helm of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). As I said back then, open source software (OSS) foundations must work together to prevent the next Log4Shell scramble, and the same remains…
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,…
Presenting a comparative study of the different approaches used to measure criticality and risk by a set of OpenSSF projects. Criticality is the measure of how important a package is across the global software ecosystem based on how many packages depend upon it. By combining criticality with the measure of a project’s security posture, or…
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced many new members from leading technology firms in sectors that span software development, cybersecurity, data science, platform as a service, semiconductors, finance, think tanks, academics, and more, bringing the total number of OpenSSF members over one hundred.
The Linux Foundation Training & Certification team, in partnership with the Open Source Software Foundation (OpenSSF), are pleased to announce the launch of one of our post popular training courses translated into Japanese - Developing Secure Software (LFD121).
After two successful OpenSSF Days this year at Open Source Summit North America and Europe, we’re excited for our third and final OpenSSF Day of 2022 at Open Source Summit Japan on Monday, December 5th in Yokohama and online.
Meet Christopher "CRob" Robinson, Director of Security Communications, Intel Corporation. Working Group (WG) & Special Interest Group (SIG) facilitator, Technical Advisory Council (TAC) member, Committee member (Governance, Public Policy), Project(s) individual contributor, and Goose-hat wearer
A robust strategy around securing how developers consume and manage open source software (OSS) dependencies when building software is essential. The Secure Supply Chain Consumption Framework (S2C2F) is a consumption-focused/consumer-focused framework that uses a threat-based, risk-reduction approach to mitigate real world threats in Open Source Software (OSS). Today, we are pleased to announce that it…
In the motor city, the community hosted the first-ever Sigstore event, SigstoreCon, in co-location with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. Event highlights included the announcement of Sigstore general availability, an awards ceremony, engaging talks, and introduction of a Sigstore Landscape. If you missed out, the session recordings are now available.
