"Alpha-Omega Project Aims to Secure Open Source Ecosystem"

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has announced the Alpha-Omega Project, which is aimed at helping maintainers of the most critical open source projects identify and fix security vulnerabilities in their code, and improve their security posture. The project, backed by a $5 million investment from Microsoft and Google, has two separate initiatives, one of which focuses on evaluating the security of a small number of highly critical open source projects and services that are deeply integrated into the Internet. These projects will get specifically tailored assistance to help maintainers find security problems and develop solutions to address those issues. The other portion of the project will cover the broader field of open source projects that are widely deployed but not necessarily critical to the Internet's function. This portion will employ a mix of large-scale analysis tools and human triage to find, evaluate, and report bugs contained by those projects. This article continues to discuss the goals and structure of the OpenSSF's Alpha-Omega Project, as well as the importance of improving the security of open source software. 

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