"CISA Announces New Efforts to Help Secure Open Source Ecosystem"

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced several initial key actions that it will take in collaboration with the open source community to help secure the open source ecosystem. CISA is working with package repositories to encourage the adoption of the Principles for Package Repository Security. This framework, developed by CISA and the Open Source Security Foundation's (OpenSSF) Securing Software Repositories Working Group, delves into voluntary security maturity levels for package repositories. The agency has also launched a new effort to promote voluntary collaboration and cyber defense information sharing among open source software infrastructure operators in order to better protect the open source software supply chain. This article continues to discuss new efforts to help secure the open source ecosystem.

CISA reports "CISA Announces New Efforts to Help Secure Open Source Ecosystem"

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