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Inside a $150 Million Plan for Open Source Software Security

— Everyone uses open source software — and it’s become increasingly apparent that https://thenewstack.io/log4shell-we-are-in-so-much-trouble/. In a survey released by https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/course-catalog/?utm_content=inline-mention and Synk at the foundation’s Open Source Summit in Austin, Tex., this month, 41% of organizations said they aren’t confident in the https://thenewstack.io/category/security/ of the open source software they use. At the Austin event, The New Stack’s Makers podcast sat down with https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbehlendorf/ general manager of Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), to talk about a new plan to attack the problem from multiple angles. He was interviewed for this On the Road edition of Makers by https://thenewstack.io/author/hjoslyn/, features editor at The New Stack.

The plan was sparked by queries from the White House about the various initiatives underway to improve open source software security — what they would cost, and the time frame the solution-builders had in mind.