Amazon Web Services Supports Open Source Technology Improvement Fund

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…

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Our Audit of Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) is Complete!

Results of the KEDA Security Engagement KEDA, or the Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling project, was reviewed by Trail of Bits at the end of 2022. KEDA joins a growing list of CNCF Projects audited to improve security posture and help reach graduated status thanks to strategic partner OSTIF. A combination…

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The OSTIF Independent Security Audit Impact Report

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,…

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The OSTIF Audit of Curl with Trail of Bits is Complete

Results of curl Security Audit  By: Amir Montazery, OSTIF Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is thrilled to announce the results of a security audit and threat model for curl. In development since 1998, curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs. Curl is used…

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Results of the CloudEvents Security Assessment

Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc is happy to announce the results of the CloudEvents Security Assessment. CloudEvents is a specification for describing event data in a common way that simplifies event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond. CloudEvents has a robust network of contributors and active development…

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Our Audits of Jackson-Core and Jackson-Databind are Complete

We’re excited to report the results for the security audits of Jackson-Core and Jackson-Databind. Jackson-Core and Jackson-Databind are Java projects that are widely adopted for parsing and binding data. The security review was facilitated by Open Source Technology Improvement Fund backed by the OpenSSF and carried out by Adalogics. The…

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Our Audit of Python-TUF is Complete. Multiple Issues Found and Fixed

Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is thrilled to report the results of another security audit. Python-TUF is a reference implementation written in Python for The Update Framework (TUF); a framework for secure content delivery and updates. The primary result of the work is one medium and four low-severity issues. Details…

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The OSTIF Audit of Backstage with X41 D-Sec is Complete!

We’re excited to report the results for the security audit of Backstage. Backstage is a software catalog and development platform that enables teams to quickly ship high-quality code. The security review was facilitated by Open Source Technology Improvement Fund backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and carried out by…

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