Security News > 2024 > May > Establishing a security baseline for open source projects

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.

OpenSSF is working to combat that challenge by establishing a security baseline for open-source projects and aims to propagate it across the Linux Foundation.

We aim to ensure we have minimally viable secure open source projects and build security into an open source software incrementally as the software becomes production-ready.

We currently have Sigstore for artifact signing, SLSA for build provenance, Witness and Archivista for attestation, OSV and OpenVEX for vulnerability management, Security Insight for fuzzers, Scorecard for gauging the security posture of a project and Allstar for enforcing security policies.

These companies are the biggest consumers of open source software, they set a great example of giving back to the community by funding open source projects and allocating engineering hours to enhance open source software security.

I feel security standards and best practices are achieved by the collaboration of all the members in the community and each plays their unique role to uplift other members, and collectively enhance the security posture of the open source ecosystems.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/05/13/dana-wang-openssf-oss-security/