Establishing A Security Baseline For Open Source Projects
HelpNet Security, Thursday, May 16th, 2024
In this Help Net Security interview, Dana Wang, Chief Architect at OpenSSF, discusses the most significant barriers to improving open-source software security (OSS security) and opportunities for overcoming these challenges.
The OpenSSF community has developed open-source security tools and projects, aiming to make security the default and promote a collaborative effort to strengthen the security posture of open-source ecosystems.
What are the most significant barriers to improving OSS security, and what opportunities exist for overcoming these challenges?
Open-source software is the foundation of the digital world we live in. As open source code develops, it moves through the supply chain from a contributor or maintainer's machine to a software repository, going through the CI/CD process, injecting dependencies, and landing in the package registry to be ingested into downstream consumers' ecosystems. Because of this process, threats exist at every link of the chain.