The US Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) report Back to the Building Blocks: A Path Toward Secure and Measurable Software, was released today. The report provides valuable insights into strategies to improve software security. This paper emphasizes the importance of proactive measures in mitigating vulnerabilities by examining pivotal principles such as memory safety,…
The Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Fusion Conference by the OpenSSF is a leading event for open source professionals, uniting diverse experts from software developers to CISOs and tech pioneers. It's not just an event; it's a push toward a more secure digital future.
OpenSSF has submitted a response to the Request For Information (RFI) on Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Principles and Approaches for Secure by Design Software issued by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). We have provided insightful feedback on making software secure by design, highlighting the critical need for clarity, precision, and…
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 container images.
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 to catalyze sustainable security improvements within the most critical open source projects and ecosystems. As a Directed Fund with three continuing stakeholders (Google, Amazon Web…
The Linux kernel has achieved a significant milestone in open source software security. It has been authorized as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) by the CVE Program. Being a CNA enables the Linux kernel team to manage the vulnerabilities with more accuracy and higher quality in the future. As Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman pointed…
We are thrilled to announce the first event Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Fusion Conference 2024, a two-day conference hosted by the OpenSSF in Atlanta, GA. Set to take place on October 22-23, 2024, at The Hotel at Avalon, this event is dedicated to Securing Open Source Software (SOSS). The event registration is now open,…
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is participating in the Biden-Harris Administration’s first-ever Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety, led by the US Department of Commerce. We join over 200 leading artificial intelligence (AI) stakeholders in supporting the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI along with other Linux Foundation (LF) projects including LF AI…
Today, the OpenSSF Securing Software Repositories Working Group released v0.1 of Principles for Package Repository Security, a framework for package repositories to assess their current security capabilities and to help roadmap future improvements.
Time is of the essence to mitigate vulnerabilities like the recent Leaky Vessels in order to reduce the chance of the vulnerabilities being exploited by attackers. As noted in Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc container breakout vulnerabilities, “Snyk security researcher Rory McNamara, with the Snyk Security Labs team, identified four vulnerabilities — dubbed "Leaky Vessels"…
