OpenSSF details advancements in open-source security efforts
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Open-source security is currently undergoing a period of accelerated change, thanks in no small part to the efforts of the Linux Foundation’s OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation).
In a full-day event at the Open Source Summit on June 20, supporters, leaders and contributors to OpenSSF discussed the current state of open-source security and detailed, at great length, multiple efforts underway to help improve the existing state of affairs. The OpenSSF has been busy in 2022 as it has ramped up a mobilization effort that it expects will cost $150 million to help secure open-source software. The mobilization effort is only one in the larger set of initiatives that the OpenSSF has underway.
“We are kind of a circus, I say that lovingly and some of you like going to the circus,” Brian Behlendorf, OpenSSF general manager said in a session at the Open Source Summit event. “There are lots of things going on at OpenSSF, lots of different teams and that is a part of our strength.”
