Reasons Why Most Audits are Still Waiting

“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…

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CloudCustodian Audit Complete!

OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of CloudCustodian. CloudCustodian is an open source rules engine for cloud infrastructure management. Thanks to the help of Ada Logics and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, this project underwent a third-party security audit to help strengthen CloudCustodian’s security as…

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Audit of Jackson-Dataformats and Jackson-Datatypes Complete

OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Jackson subprojects. Jackson-dataformats-binary, Jackson-dataformats-text, Jackson-dataformat-xml, Jackson-datatype-joda, and Jackson-datatypes-collections are open source subprojects that contribute to Jackson (described as “JSON for Java”). With the help of Ada Logics and the Sovereign Tech Fund, these subprojects will be more secure…

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