Security audits are an extremely effective tool for improving the security of critical projects. In 2022, OpenSSF and Google sponsored a number of security audits and associated work via strategic partner Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF). Today OSTIF released its Independent Security Audit Impact Report.
This February, along with many others, we'll be discussing Open Source Software (OSS) Security in Europe - first in Brussels during the Open Source Policy Summit and then at FOSDEM, followed by the State of OpenCon in London.
Next week we’re heading to the first ever standalone CloudNativeSecurityCon North America put on by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Seattle, WA that brings together application developers and security experts to propose solutions to security challenges, to explore cutting edge projects, and to discuss advances in modern security approaches. The agenda is packed…
Join us for a conversation with OpenSSF Board Member, Tracy Ragan. In this new series, we are shining the spotlight on individuals who play a pivotal leadership role in setting the course for how we secure the open source software supply chain.
The OpenSSF is a thriving, diverse, nonstop community. Across more than 30 different active software projects and other technical initiatives, we’ve been able to have the kind of reach and impact we need to put a dent in the global software security challenges we all know are only getting more intense and more costly. Today we…
Throughout 2022, the Linux Foundation and OpenSSF in particular have been at the heart of a number of important conversations concerning the open source software (OSS) community and sustainability of the ecosystem. A large part of our global engagement efforts have been focused on collaborating with leaders in the public and private sector to further…
On December 5th during Open Source Summit Japan, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) hosted OpenSSF Day Japan 2022, a half-day event dedicated to exploring ongoing efforts to improve the security of open source software (OSS). Throughout the day, contributors and thought leaders shared their ideas and experiences with OSS security through sessions on subjects…
Log4Shell, a vulnerability in the widely-used open source Java logging library Log4j, was disclosed in December 2021, roughly two months after I took the helm of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). As I said back then, open source software (OSS) foundations must work together to prevent the next Log4Shell scramble, and the same remains…
Alpha-Omega is an OpenSSF project, established in February 2022, with a mission to protect society by improving the security of open source software through direct maintainer engagement and expert analysis, trying to build a world where critical open source projects are secure and that security vulnerabilities are found and fixed quickly. During our first year,…
Presenting a comparative study of the different approaches used to measure criticality and risk by a set of OpenSSF projects. Criticality is the measure of how important a package is across the global software ecosystem based on how many packages depend upon it. By combining criticality with the measure of a project’s security posture, or…
