OpenSSF Publishes Security Baseline for Open-Source Projects
InfoQ, Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
To help open-source maintainers keep their projects secure, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has published a set of guidelines based on international cybersecurity frameworks, standards, and regulations, the Open Source Project Security Baseline.
The main goal behind the OpenSSF Baseline is to provide a solution to the security requirements of projects and teams of different sizes. In contrast, say the baseline maintainers, most commercial or industry-accepted frameworks and standards have been created with larger organizations in mind.
They recognize the possibility of the OpenSSF baseline overlapping with other open-source security initiatives, including CISA's and NIST's. Still, they stress the importance of being defined by "open source contributors, maintainers, and technical leaders who have been working in and alongside open source projects for decades".