At Open Source Summit North America earlier this year as a 10th grader, Nathan Naveen, gave a talk about OpenSSF Criticality Score. Nathan takes a look at why understanding tools…
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While many in the industry realize the value of having a software bill of materials, creators still need to generate high-fidelity SBOMs, and software consumers must ingest and enforce actions…
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Fuzz Introspector is an open source tool that at its core provides insights and suggestions for improvements on how a given project is being fuzzed. In this blog post we…
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SBOMs enable organizations to identify vulnerabilities, track open-source usage, and ensure compliance with numerous licensing obligations. Having a “single source of truth” for security and licensing information helps everyone. Let’s…
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Let’s get it out of the way early: it’s not always clear how you can best plug into organizations like OpenSSF. That’s why I’m writing this guest blog post as…
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It’s important to distinguish the term “source” (any source of a good or service) from the term “vendor” (a source who is paid and has a contractual relationship), especially when…
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The use of SBOMs is becoming increasingly essential in managing software supply chains. The main consumption use case is for evaluating dependencies known-vulnerabilities risk, by mapping the dependencies listed in…
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We’ve been discussing the creation of SBOMs for over ten years, but has it gotten us any closer to hardening our software development practices? SBOMs provide critical supply chain data,…
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Security used to be something of an afterthought in software development. Security was clunky or inconvenient, often because it was a ‘bolt-on’. That has rapidly changed over the last two…
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Scorecard is becoming a key part of IBM’s review and curation of the open-source software in our products and services. IBM is committed to helping address the systemic security issues…
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