{"id":1836,"date":"2020-08-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2020-08-05T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:58:14","slug":"open-source-security-foundation-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/internet-and-technology-news\/open-source-security-foundation-founded\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Security Foundation founded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"268\" data-attachment-id=\"1838\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/internet-and-technology-news\/open-source-security-foundation-founded\/attachment\/linuxfoundationlogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.virtono.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/linuxfoundationlogo.png?fit=1100%2C393&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1100,393\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"linuxfoundationlogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.virtono.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/linuxfoundationlogo.png?fit=750%2C268&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.virtono.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/linuxfoundationlogo.png?resize=750%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.virtono.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/linuxfoundationlogo.png?resize=1024%2C366&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.virtono.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/linuxfoundationlogo.png?resize=300%2C107&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.virtono.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/linuxfoundationlogo.png?resize=768%2C274&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.virtono.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/linuxfoundationlogo.png?w=1100&amp;ssl=1 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Linux Foundation announces\u00a0the establishment of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/press-release\/2020\/08\/technology-and-enterprise-leaders-combine-efforts-to-improve-open-source-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on its website<\/a>.\u00a0The new foundation aims to further consolidate industry efforts to improve the security of open-source software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: 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href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/internet-and-technology-news\/open-source-security-foundation-founded\/#Transparent_and_vendor-independent\" title=\"Transparent and vendor-independent\">Transparent and vendor-independent<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/internet-and-technology-news\/open-source-security-foundation-founded\/#Open_on_GitHub\" title=\"Open on GitHub\">Open on GitHub<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cross-sector\"><\/span>Cross-sector<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openssf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenSSF<\/a>&nbsp;is a cross-industry collaboration that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openssf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeks to bring<\/a>&nbsp;leaders together to improve the security of Open Source Software (OSS) by building a broader community with targeted initiatives and best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It combines the efforts of the Core Infrastructure Initiative, the open-source security coalition of GitHub and other open source security efforts of the founding members of GitHub, Google, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, the NCC Group, the OWASP Foundation, and Red Hat.\u00a0Other founding members include ElevenPaths, GitLab, HackerOne, Intel, Okta, Purdue, SAFECode, StackHawk, Trail of Bits, Uber, and VMware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Transparent_and_vendor-independent\"><\/span>Transparent and vendor-independent<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The OpenSSF wants to bring together the industry&#8217;s most important open source security initiatives and the people and companies that support them.\u00a0The Linux Foundation&#8217;s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), which was founded in response to the\u00a0Heartbleed bug in 2014\u00a0, and the Open Source Security Coalition, which is operated by the GitHub Security Lab, are just a few of the projects that will be brought together under the OpenSSF should.\u00a0The management of the foundation and its decisions should be transparent and all specifications and projects that are developed should be vendor-independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Open_on_GitHub\"><\/span>Open on GitHub<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With the formalization of the group, an open management structure is to be established, which provides for a board of directors, a technical advisory board and separate supervision for each working group and each project.\u00a0The OpenSSF intends to launch a variety of technical open-source initiatives to support the security of the most critical open source projects, all of\u00a0which are to be conducted\u00a0publicly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ossf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on GitHub<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux Foundation announces\u00a0the establishment of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)\u00a0on its website.\u00a0The new foundation aims to further consolidate industry efforts to improve the security of open-source software. Cross-sector The&nbsp;OpenSSF&nbsp;is a cross-industry collaboration that&nbsp;seeks to bring&nbsp;leaders together to improve the security of Open Source Software (OSS) by building a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-and-technology-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.virtono.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/linuxfoundationlogo.png?fit=1100%2C393&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ISfL-tC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":784,"url":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/tutorial-how-to\/targeted-attacks\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836,"position":0},"title":"Targeted Attacks.","author":"Daniel Draga","date":"December 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"More Data than Sense. 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