Fastify Audit Complete!

OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Fastify.  Fastify is an open source overhead web framework for Node.js, which prioritizes speed while maintaining expansibility and approachability. This audit was possible through the efforts of Ada Logics and the support of the OpenJS Foundation. Audit Process: First…

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Why OSTIF?

Why OSTIF? There’s a lot of misconceptions that cause stagnation when it comes to procuring and participating in security audits. How does one even begin to get an audit, much less fund it? There is too much work involved, and not enough help from the auditors. It’s just a way…

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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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Amazon Web Services & Eclipse Foundation Security Audit Impact Report 2023

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…

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50th Audit Milestone

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…

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OSTIF Receives a Third Yearly Donation from DuckDuckGo

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…

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In-Flux-ible on bugs- Flux undergoes Security Audit with OSTIF and Trail of Bits

OSTIF is proud to announce the publication of a security audit on the Kubernetes cluster tooling Flux in collaboration with Trail of Bits. Performed over four engineer weeks, this is the second security audit with OSTIF that Flux has undertaken, the first having taken place in November 2021. Repeated security…

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