New Collaboration Brings Increased Open Source Security Support and Assurances to Software Developers

The Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative and the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund to partner on advancing state-of-the-art open source security

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, and the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) announced a strategic partnership to advance security for open source software (OSS) that has become critical to the world’s infrastructure.

The organizations will bring together and build on a depth of their experience supporting security audits for widely deployed open source communities. This formal and strategic agreement will allow the Linux Foundation to augment its work on security audits, of which it has already invested more than $1m across more than 20 security audits for open source projects to date, by including audit sourcing experts through OSTIF’s network. OSTIF will share the resources available through the Linux Foundation’s Community Bridge, a funding and support ecosystem for developers and projects, with its community to help fundraise for new audits.

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“The Linux Foundation’s ability to fundraise across industries to support thousands of developers around the world is unprecedented,” said Amir Montazery, vice president of development at OSTIF. “The Linux Foundation is a pioneer in open source software and one of the few organizations taking the actions required to truly support it for generations to come. We are excited to join forces and increase our collective impact on improving critical software.”

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As part of the strategic partnership, The Linux Foundation will appoint Mike Dolan, vice president of strategic programs, to the OSTIF Advisory Board.

“OSTIF represents a global community and network of security experts and developers and demonstrates an important commitment to the improvement and sustainability of  open source software,” said Mike Dolan, vice president of strategic programs, Linux Foundation. “This is a natural collaboration that we hope will increase trust in the global open source software supply chain that underpins modern society.”

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