OSTIF started performing security audits in earnest in 2018, tackling a new level of involvement open source security. That same year was OSTIF’s first collaboration with security firm Trail of Bits, working together to complete an audit of RandomX. Since then our two companies have worked together on 12 security…
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…
OSTIF and the CNCF are proud to announce the completion of a security audit of CubeFS. The project, which provides cloud-native storage across a variety of access protocols, was audited by the team at Ada Logics during the Fall of 2023. The security audit for CubeFS was designed to be…
We at OSTIF are excited to announce the 2023 Cloud Native Computing Foundation Audit Impact Report. This is the second year of the program between the two organizations, which combines funding and projects from the CNCF with OSTIF’s auditing resources to synthesize security engagements. Over the last two years, this collaboration…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is beyond proud to announce the completion of our 50th security audit. Since 2015, the nonprofit organization has worked to provide actualized security support to open source projects in a way that is transparent, public, and impactful. We work with open source projects that…
This year for OSTIF has been beyond our expectations and hopes. We’ve worked hard for open source security, bonding with new collaborators while growing our network to provide projects with help from experts. We completed almost 200% more projects than in 2022, hired a new full-time employee, and forged partnerships…
OSTIF is proud to announce the publication of the security audit of nvm in collaboration with 7ASecurity! nvm is a version manager for node.js, which works on any POSIX-compliant shell for Linux, Mac, and Windows. For this audit, 7ASecurity performed a whitebox security review and penetration testing upon the open…
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…
OSTIF is happy to announce the completion of Knative’s security audit. The audit covered the core sub projects of Knative: Eventing, Serving and Pkg with minor focus on Knative extensions, Func and Security-Guard. The audit was a holistic audit, covering different aspects of Knative’s security including threat modeling, manual code…
Open source project Kyverno completed a security audit by OSTIF and Ada Logics in the fall of 2023 in continued partnership with the CNCF. This engagement was organized to be a holistic review of the Kubernetes policy engine, including threat modeling, manual code auditing, fuzzing and supply-chain review. The security…