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Today, I want to share with you a new initiative by OpenSSF called the Open Source Project Security Baseline. The TL;DR: This initiative consists of a series of checks that project maintainers must have in place in their software repositories to demonstrate a strong security posture. The baseline is divided into three well defined levels. I find this to be an interesting and practical initiative, easy to apply for improving and certifying a project’s security level. ...

I’ll start with a premise for those who may not already be familiar: the open-source software ecosystem often revolves around foundations, with the most famous probably being the Linux Foundation. In the cloud-native domain, the reference foundation is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, commonly known as CNCF. CNCF is a foundation created by the Linux Foundation in 2015, specifically to manage projects in the cloud-native domain. In simple terms, it can be defined as a third-party, vendor-neutral entity that oversees the development and activities related to major projects involving containerized technologies like Kubernetes. ...