OSTIF is proud to share the results of our second security audit of Notary Project. Notary Project is “a set of specifications and tools intended to provide a cross-industry standard for securing software supply chains by using authentic container images and other OCI artifacts.”* With the help of Quarkslab and…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the results of our 2024 security audit collaboration with the Sovereign Tech Agency. The Sovereign Tech Agency has invested millions of Euros into technology improvement and hardening over the past two years, notably through their Sovereign Tech Resilience program. OSTIF…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Backstage. Backstage is an open source framework for developer portals. With the help of X41D-Sec and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), this project can continue to provide quick and secure development environments. Audit Process: This audit was…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our 2024 security audit collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Over the past three years, OSTIF and the CNCF have worked together to provide security audits for CNCF projects. These projects, as a part of the CNCF landscape, must undergo…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of SEAPATH. SEAPATH is an open source project hosted by Linux Foundation Energy (LF Energy) that consolidates clusters of servers for energy and power management across substations at the utility level. With the help of Ada Logics and LF…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Cloud Native Buildpacks. Cloud Native Buildpacks (or "Buildpacks") is an open source tool for making container images for any cloud directly from the application source code. With the help of Quarkslab and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),…
“Audits cost too much” We’ve seen what happens in the open source ecosystem when audits are deferred – those vulnerabilities assumed to not exist are discovered, and the aftermath is a project, community, and entire ecosystem in shambles. If you ask those authors if they made the right choice deferring…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Temurin. Temurin is an open source project for building high performing Java runtime binaries. With the help of Trail of Bits and the Eclipse Foundation, this project will continue to securely support users who develop Java codes across…
In collaboration with Amazon Web Services and the Eclipse Foundation, OSTIF is excited to release our Independent Security Audit Impact Report for 2023! Over the past year, OSTIF worked with 10 projects to complete third-party security audits with funding supplied by AWS and the EF. The engagement oversaw 24 new…
DuckDuckGo has for the third year in a row generously donated $25,000 to the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund as part of its annual charitable donations program. OSTIF works full time on funding open source security projects and engagements and collaborating directly with security teams and project maintainers from around…