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Industry leaders from technology, financial services, telecom, and cybersecurity sectors respond to Biden's executive order and commit to a more secure future for software.

/PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it has raised $10...

/PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it has raised $10...

Their goal is to make the pervasive operating system more sustainable as research indicates a need to improve open source software security, specifically in Linux. A report from the Linux Foundations Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University (LISH) found a lack of security efforts in open source software. Its worth noting Linux has more than 20,000 contributors and 1 million commits as of August 2020. But while there are thousands ...

Developers opinions of security and secure coding — calling it a "soul-withering chore" and an "insufferably boring procedural hinderance" —  highlight that companies who want to harden their applications against attacks have a significant gap between those desires and getting their own developers on board, says Frank Nagle, a Harvard Business School professor and contributing author to the report analyzing the survey results. "It appears that this shifting left has not fully pervaded the ...