Securing Open Source Projects at the Eclipse Foundation: 2024 in Review
It's time to reflect on the strides we've made in enhancing the security of our open source projects in 2024.
It's time to reflect on the strides we've made in enhancing the security of our open source projects in 2024.
Free security training for all Eclipse Foundation Committers and Contributors!
Join us for hands-on training, designed to give you practical, real-world security skills, alongside the opportunity to engage directly with Eclipse Foundation security experts, discuss a wide array of topics and ask questions in an open, collaborative environment.
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Free security training for all Eclipse Foundation Committers and Contributors!
Join us for hands-on training, designed to give you practical, real-world security skills, alongside the opportunity to engage directly with Eclipse Foundation security experts, discuss a wide array of topics and ask questions in an open, collaborative environment.
What will you learn?
In response to requests from various projects and after discussions between the Eclipse Foundation Security Team and the Architecture Council, we recently announced the creation of Project Security Teams.
The security track at OCX 2024 is packed with sessions that address the most pressing challenges and opportunities in open source security. Check this blog for a sneak peek at what the security track has in store.
The Eclipse Foundation is a CNA (CVE Numbering Authority), responsible for assigning vulnerability identification numbers, known as CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumerations), to our projects. This August, a new set of rules for CNAs comes into force.
This initiative, aimed at bolstering the security of our source code repositories, mandates that all users with write access to an Eclipse Project repository (commonly known as committers) on GitHub and the Eclipse Foundation GitLab instance must use 2FA.
The Eclipse Foundation Security Team has been made aware of the vulnerability VU#421644 affecting multiple HTTP/2 implementations, that could cause an out-of-memory crash.
FOSS Security Campus Trainings are in-depth training courses by distinguished experts on the topics of open source and security, to empower developers, dev ops engineers, managers and others in the field of software development to make their products more secure. The trainings being offered are: DevSecOps and Software factory included by Thomas Fricke (Freelancer), A Game of Cat and Mouse by Stefan Grönke (Radically Open Security) and Automated Security Testing by Peter Mosmans (Radically Open Security).
FOSS Security Campus, is a new event focusing on IT security in the FOSS and open source sector. The conference will take place for the first time on September 28-29th, 2023. Topics include Open Source Supply Chains, Security Processes, Vulnerability Disclosure, Bug Bounties, Security by Design, Risk Mitigation and much more. The conference will be kicked off with a keynote by Melanie Rieback on "How business models are conflicting with a cybersecure world" and on the second conference day a keynote will be held by Thijs Ebbers and Jan Vogel on Zero Privilege Architectures.