Polyverse
"Polyverse is honored to be a member of OpenSSF. The popularity of open source as the 'go-to' option for mission critical data, systems and solutions has brought with it increased cyberattacks. Bringing together organizations to work on this problem collaboratively is exactly what open source is all about and we're eager to accelerate progress in this area," said Archis Gore, CTO, Polyverse.
Renesas
"Renesas provides embedded processors for various application segments, including automotive, industrial automation, and IoT. Renesas is committed to ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data while mitigating cybersecurity risks. To enable our customers to develop robust systems, it is essential to provide root-of-trust of the open source software that runs on our products," said Shinichi Yoshioka, Senior Vice President and CTO of Renesas. "We are excited to join the Open Source Security Foundation and to collaborate with industry-leading security professionals to advance more secure computing environments for the society."
Samsung
"Samsung is trying to provide best-in-class security with our technologies and activities. Not only are security risks reviewed and removed in all development phases of our products, but they are also monitored continuously and patched quickly," said Yong Ho Hwang, Corporate Vice President and Head of Samsung Research Security Team, Samsung Electronics. "Open source is one of the best approaches to drive cross-industry effort in responding quickly and transparently to security threats. Samsung will continue to be a leader in providing high-level security by actively contributing and collaborating with the Open Source Security Foundation."
Spectral
"Spectral's mission is to enable developers to build and ship software at scale without worry. We feel that the OpenSSF initiative is the perfect venue to discuss and improve open source security and is a natural platform that empowers developers. The Spectral team is happy to participate in the working groups and share their expertise in security analysis and research of technology stacks at scale, developer experience (DX) and tooling, open source codebases analysis and trends, developer behavioral analysis, though the ultimate goal of improving open source security and developer happiness," said Dotan Nahum, CEO and co-founder of Spectral.
SUSE
"At SUSE, we power innovation in data centers, cars, phones, satellites and other devices. It has never been more critical to deliver trustworthy security from the core all the way to the edge," said Markus Noga, VP Solutions Technology at SUSE. "We are committed to OpenSSF as the forum for the open source community to collaborate on vulnerability disclosures, security tooling, and to create best practices to keep all users of open source solutions safe."
Tencent
"Tencent believes in the power of open source technology and collaboration to deliver incredible solutions to today's challenges. As open source has become the de facto way to build software, its security has become a critical component for building and maintaining the software and infrastructure," said Mark Shan, Chair of Tencent Open Source Alliance and Board Chair of the TARS Foundation. "By bringing different organizations together, OpenSSF provides a platform where developers can collaboratively build solutions needed to protect the open source security supply chain. Tencent is very excited to join this collaborative effort as an OpenSSF member and contribute to its open source security initiatives and best practices."
WhiteSource
"In today's world, software development teams simply cannot develop software at today's pace without using open source. Our goal has always been to empower teams to harness the power of open source easily and securely. We're honored to get the opportunity to join the Open Source Security Foundation where we can join forces with others to contribute, together, towards open source security best practices and initiatives." David Habusha, VP Product.
About the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)
Hosted by the Linux Foundation, the OpenSSF (
launched in August 2020) is a cross-industry organization that brings together the industry's most important open source security initiatives and the individuals and companies that support them. It combines the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), founded in response to the 2014 Heartbleed bug, and the Open Source Security Coalition, founded by the GitHub Security Lab to build a community to support the open source security for decades to come. The OpenSSF is committed to collaboration and working both upstream and with existing communities to advance open source security for all.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation's projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at
linuxfoundation.org.
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