In an attempt to coalesce the efforts and opinions of numerous players in the open source software (OSS) space, and bring about industry-wide security solutions for open source software, the Linux Foundation has launched the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Open source software faces some unique security challenges as a result of its collaborative development process, and it is, therefore “important that those responsible for their user or organization’s security are able to understand and verify the security of this dependency chain,” as the OpenSSF website states.

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