On September 18, 2023, we hosted OpenSSF Day Europe at the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain. Throughout the day, we hosted a number of sessions around the state of open source software security, discussed current initiatives and what’s next. If you weren’t able to attend, check out our playlist on YouTube to view…
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 configuration and also policies and best practices.
The OpenSSF is pleased to welcome new Chief Architect, Dana Wang! Dana Wang is a technology leader with a track record of delivering results and making impacts at enterprise scale. Dana was formerly the Executive Director of Public Cloud Network Security at JPMorgan Chase. She led the public cloud edge network security platform engineering, service…
We are delighted to announce the 2.0 release of sigstore-python, a Python client for signing and verifying Sigstore signatures! This release has been in the works for a while and contains a number of significant improvements and breaking changes to both the sigstore CLI and Python APIs.
The Securing Critical Projects WG aims to solve the problem of insecure (and often unknown) critical projects. First, we focus on helping identify which projects are critical, which will allow discovery of projects that can benefit from additional security focus. We’ve been working on curating a set of identified open source projects that are critical…
From a software consumer perspective, how do we know where to start to address the real supply chain threats? Which risks are more critical than others? What framework or standard should be adopted quickly? Those were the questions posed in the OpenSSF End Users Working Group where engineers got together to figure out how to…
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 funding will further Prossimo’s efforts to bring memory safety to critical components of the Internet and further OpenSSF’s Alpha-Omega project’s mission to protect society by…
We welcome six new members from leading technology firms to the OpenSSF. New general members include Mend.io, RTX, Shopify, SlimAI, and Stacklok. New associate member, the Rust Foundation, also joins. Technical communities continue to prioritize investment in open source security and recognize the role of supporting and sustaining open source communities in maintaining a healthy,…
Join us for an OpenSSF Tech Talk on SLSA. We’ll delve into the world of SLSA and its transformative impact on software supply chain security. You will get a comprehensive overview of SLSA and dig into SLSA fundamentals, trust and transparency in software artifacts, SLSA framework levels, the industry impact of SLSA, and more. You…
The Linux Foundation introduces our new vulnerability disclosure policy, which clarifies how vulnerability reporters should connect with the Linux Foundation project maintainers who are able to resolve issues.
