During the Spring of 2023, OSTIF, ADA Logics, and The Notary Project collaborated on a security audit of the new Notation libraries. Notation is a CLI project to add signatures as standard items in the registry ecosystem and to build a set of simple tooling for signing and verifying signatures. …
Security is Vital for Vitess! The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, in collaboration with Ada Logics, is proud to announce the results of a successful security audit for Vitess. Born at Youtube in 2010 to help scale up database interactions, Vitess eventually moved under the umbrella of Cloud Native Computing…
Falco joins a growing number of CNCF Projects that completed a third-party security audit organized by OSTIF. A follow up to their 2019 audit, the Falco project requested a new engagement due to changes in the code base since. OSTIF partnered with Quarkslab to complete the audit. An overview of…
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…
Results of the Cilium Security Engagement About Cilium Cilium is an open source software for providing, securing and observing network connectivity between container workloads, powered by eBPF sandboxing in the linux kernel. It provides cloud-native network security and observability while maintaining strong security properties itself. Similar tools without eBPF have…
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…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is happy to announce the results of the Istio Security Audit. Used by key cloud providers and technology organizations, Istio is an open service mesh platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. The Security Audit was carried out by the team at ADA Logics. A…
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…
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…
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation and OSTIF Impact Report OSTIF has been working with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) on a number of security projects over the last year. This has been a large collaborative effort to help CNCF projects improve their security posture by conducting code audits, building…