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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 Foundation's 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. It's worth noting Linux has more than 20,000 contributors and 1 million commits as of August 2020. But while there are thousands of Linux developers, Google's contribution to underwrite two full-time Linux security maintainers ...

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 minds of FOSS developers," he says. "Although we did not specifically ask whether developers thin...