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OSV is an open format for describing software vulnerabilities. It provides security researchers, vendors, and consumers with an easy to understand format for exchanging vulnerability information. OSV.dev is a database…

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…

Securing the open source ecosystem isn't a passive act. It calls for proactive participation through regular code reviews, vulnerability assessments, or simply staying updated with the latest security protocols. Every user,…

If you're not using automation to monitor the security risks from your dependency tree, chances are your project is vulnerable. Although these vulnerabilities may not be malicious, they can still…

At Open Source Summit North America earlier this year as a 10th grader, Nathan Naveen, gave a talk about OpenSSF Criticality Score. Nathan takes a look at why understanding tools…

While many in the industry realize the value of having a software bill of materials, creators still need to generate high-fidelity SBOMs, and software consumers must ingest and enforce actions…