We are excited to announce the launch of the OpenSSF Security Job Board. This job board is meant to serve the community in two ways: allowing developers to view top-notch jobs in the security space and helping companies hire great people. By making the best security jobs easily accessible in one place, we aim to…
In April 2023 the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), along with other government agencies inside and outside the US, released a paper emphasizing software secure-by-design principles and approaches. In October 2023 a significant update was released, now titled Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Principles and Approaches for Secure by Design Software. Here we’ll…
Earlier this month we held a Tech Talk on Securing the Software Supply Chain: An In-Depth Exploration of SLSA. SLSA, or Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts, is an OpenSSF project that provides a security framework to improve the integrity and security of packages and infrastructure. You can watch the Tech Talk on demand on our…
The OpenSSF Day Japan agenda is now live! We have a great day of session presentations, panels, and lightning talks lined up on December 4th, colocated with Open Source Summit Japan in Tokyo, Japan. Plan to join us to discuss the latest and greatest in ongoing efforts to secure the Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystem!
The OpenSSF is pleased to welcome new Governing Board Chair, Arun Gupta who was elected by the OpenSSF Governing Board and will serve from October 2023 to October 2024. Join us for a conversation with new OpenSSF Board Chair, Arun Gupta.
Like the open source ecosystem itself, the OpenSSF has grown and evolved during a very busy 2023. It’s no longer debatable, everyone depends upon open source software today. Two-Term OpenSSF Board Chair, Jamie Thomas, reflects on 2023 milestones.
This week, CISA, FBI, NSA, and the US Department of the Treasury released guidance on Improving Security of Open Source Software (OSS) in Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) to assist with better management of risk from OSS use in OT/ICS and increase resilience when using available resources. The OpenSSF supports this effort,…
Today, the OpenSSF Package Analysis team is excited to announce the launch of our Malicious Packages repository, the first open source system for collecting and publishing cross-ecosystem reports of malicious packages. This repository is a response to the rising incidence of attacks that include malicious open source packages.
The OpenSSF is thrilled to announce the release of version 1.0 for the Security Insights Specification. Security Insights provides a mechanism for maintainers to provide information about their projects' security processes in a machine-processable way. Formatted as a YAML file, it ensures easy readability and editing by humans as well as machines.
Open Source Software is used in critical infrastructure worldwide. As vulnerabilities like Looney Tunables, Rapid Reset, and the forthcoming cURL vulnerabilities are discovered, organizations must have a well-practiced incident response plan. We believe in risk-based responses based on business criticality. A well-informed inventory based on SBOMs is key to this approach.
