Vulnerability management
This topic was discussed in detail in Chapter 7. Vulnerability management is one of the essential parts of open source projects. There are a number of best practices available that contributors and projects can consider to strengthen the security posture of an open source project. It is important the projects consider the adoption of these best practices and continuously identify, prioritize, and address vulnerabilities.
There are also a number of open source projects for vulnerability management, typically taking an example from the CD ecosystem:
- Open Policy Agent is a graduated CNCF project, which provides policy-based control for cloud-native environments
- Sigstore enables developers to sign software artifacts and much more
- Ortelius is an ppen source supply chain catalog that unleashes DevOps and security intelligence siloed across containers and pipelines
There are focused efforts to enhance open source security. The Open Source...