The U.S. Government's Approach to Open Source Security

Explore a 17-minute keynote presentation from the All Things Open 2024 conference where Jack Cable, Senior Technical Advisor at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), discusses the federal government's evolving approach to open source security. Learn how the Log4shell vulnerability served as a catalyst for increased government attention to open source security, and discover CISA's strategic initiatives outlined in their Open Source Software Security Roadmap. Gain insights into four key areas of focus: building relationships with the open source community through initiatives like the March summit, assessing open source software prevalence, enhancing federal government's open source software usage through OSPOs, and strengthening the broader open source ecosystem through collaboration with package repositories.