EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in Practice @ FOSDEM 2026: From Awareness to Action
Over the past few years, the free and open source (FOSS) community has engaged deeply with the CRA, highlighting its significance and potential impact.
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OpenSSF at FOSDEM 2026: From Policy to Practical Security
FOSDEM is one of Europe’s most important gatherings for open source communities, and OpenSSF will participate again in 2026. The event brings together developers, maintainers, researchers, and industry contributors for two days of technical talks, hallway discussions, and collaboration.
Strengthening Open Source Security Through Community: Introducing OSSAfrica
Open Source & Security Africa (OSSAfrica) is a community-led initiative bringing together people who care about open source and security across the continent. We're building connections between contributors, software developers, maintainers, researchers, and security professionals.
Signal in the Noise: An Industry-Wide Perspective on the State of VEX
Abstract: Software security has always been a race between complexity and clarity. The Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) aims to bring clarity to that race.
Your Guide to the OpenSSF OSPS Baseline for More Secure Open Source Projects
The Open Source Project Security (OSPS) Baseline is a community-developed catalog of practical security controls that helps open source projects understand what good security looks like and how to improve over time.
Catching Malicious Package Releases Using a Transparency Log
Trail of Bits, with funding from OpenSSF, is improving Sigstore’s rekor-monitor to help maintainers detect malicious package releases, monitor signing identities, and strengthen software supply chain security using transparency logs.
What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #47 – S2E24 Teaching the Next Generation: Software Supply Chain Security in Academia with Justin Cappos
NYU professor Justin Cappos joins the OpenSSF podcast to discuss why software supply chain security is missing from most university curricula -- and how hands-on, open source-first education can change that.