Cybersecurity Dive September 9, 2025
Tech giants pledged millions to secure open-source code. Then AI came along.
In November 2021, a zero-day vulnerability in a ubiquitous piece of open-source code stunned the technology industry and set off an urgent effort to help secure the largely volunteer open-source ecosystem. Nearly four years later, that effort has made important progress but has also been hobbled by multiple setbacks.
The Log4Shell vulnerability in a popular Java logging tool convinced the Biden administration to focus on open-source security and prompted major tech companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft to pledge tens of millions of dollars to security improvements. Much of that work occurred through the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), which created numerous tools to help developers...
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