The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve
open-source software security.
The list of founding governing board members includes
GitHub
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,
Google
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,
IBM,
JPMorgan Chase
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,
Microsoft
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,
NCC Group,
OWASP Foundation and
Red Hat.
Other founding members include
GitLab
GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package which can develop, secure, and operate software. The open source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Dutch developer ...
,
HackerOne
HackerOne is a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform that connects businesses with penetration testers and cybersecurity researchers. It was one of the first companies, along with Synack and Bugcrowd, to embrace and utilize crowd ...
,
Intel
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,
Okta
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,
Purdue
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,
Uber
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, and
VMware
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VMware's desktop software ru ...
.
The OpenSSF is part of the
Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit technology consortium founded in 2000 as a merger between Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group to standardize Linux, support its growth, and promote its commercial adoption. Addi ...
. It is the successor to the
Core Infrastructure Initiative
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) was a project of the Linux Foundation to fund and support free and open-source software projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet and other major information systems. The project was ann ...
, another Linux Foundation project.
See also
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Computer security
Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, t ...
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Open Security Foundation
The Open Security Foundation (OSF) was a 501(c)(3) non-profit public organization "founded and operated by information security enthusiasts". The OSF managed several projects including the Open Source Vulnerability Database
The Open Sourced Vuln ...
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{{FLOSS
Free software project foundations in the United States
Organizations established in 2020