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Linux Foundation announces Open Source Security Foundation

([Briefs] Aug 3, 2020 20:14 UTC (Mon) (ris))


The Linux Foundation has [1]announced the formation of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The foundation aims to improve the security of open source software. " The OpenSSF brings together the industry’s most important open source security initiatives and the individuals and companies that support them. The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), founded in response to the 2014 Heartbleed bug, and the Open Source Security Coalition, founded by the GitHub Security Lab, are just a couple of the projects that will be brought together under the new OpenSSF. The Foundation’s governance, technical community and its decisions will be transparent, and any specifications and projects developed will be vendor agnostic. The OpenSSF is committed to collaboration and working both upstream and with existing communities to advance open source security for all. "



[1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/08/technology-and-enterprise-leaders-combine-efforts-to-improve-open-source-security/

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