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…
Today we are releasing our 2022 annual report. It details our financial health and our impact in 2022. It is intended to be a very easy read and a summation of all of the work OSTIF does. A special thank you to everyone we have worked with this year to…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Impact Report for 2022. This report is a follow-up to our August 2022 post and is based on CNCF’s strong commitment to improving security posture of projects, a sound guiding policy and project maturity…
DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, has contributed to OSTIF for a third time by donating $25,000 USD. The charitable giving as part of DuckDuckGo’s annual program Spread Privacy is special, as the funds are not allocated to any specific project. This contribution helps OSTIF tremendously and allows the organization to…
Amazon Web Services Supports Open Source Technology Improvement Fund Amir Montazery, Managing Director, Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc (OSTIF) The OSTIF team is absolutely thrilled to announce that we’ve reached an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide $500,000 in funding. The funding from AWS will help OSTIF…
Today OSTIF is thrilled to release the Independent Security Audit Impact Report. This report is the culmination of over a year’s worth of work that OSTIF organized thanks to funding from Google and OpenSSF. “I am extremely proud of this work and what OSTIF continues to accomplish. Organizations like Google,…