Microsoft, Red Hat, and Google collaborate to create the Open Source Security Foundation

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Microsoft, Red Hat, and Google collaborate to create the Open Source Security Foundation

Microsoft has announced a collaboration with several industry partners to create the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) – a new cross-industry initiative to improve the security of open source software.

Hosted at the Linux Foundation, OpenSSF was founded in partnership with Google, Red Hat, IBM, NCC Group, and OWASP, as well as Microsoft-owned GitHub.

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said OpenSSF brings together work from the Linux Foundation-initiated Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), GitHub-initiated Open Source Security Coalition (OSSC), and other open source security efforts.