sustainability
Safeguard articles tagged "sustainability" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Open Source Funding Crisis: What It Means for Your Tree
Critical infrastructure depends on unpaid maintainers, and burnout creates openings attackers exploit. xz-utils was the warning shot, not the exception.
Open Source Security Funding in 2024: Who Pays for the Code We All Depend On
Despite growing recognition that open source underpins critical infrastructure, security funding remains fragmented and insufficient. A look at the numbers and what needs to change.
The OSS Pledge: Adoption Tracking at Six Months
Six months after the OSS Pledge launch, adoption is climbing but uneven. Who signed, who followed through with funding, and what the pledge has actually shifted in open-source economics.
Green Software and Security: When Sustainability Meets Supply Chain Risk
The push for sustainable software is changing how we build and deploy applications. Security teams need to understand where green initiatives create new risks.
Open Source Funding, Sustainability, and Security
The software industry runs on open source maintained by unpaid volunteers. Until we fix the funding problem, we can't fix the security problem.
The Open Source Maintainer Burnout Crisis and Its Security Consequences
Burned-out maintainers abandon projects, accept risky PRs without review, and hand off keys to strangers. The burnout crisis is a supply chain security crisis.
The Open Source Software Bill of Rights
As governments and enterprises demand more from open source maintainers, the community pushes back with a framework of rights. The tension between accountability and sustainability is shaping the future of open source.
Open Source Funding Models and Their Impact on Security
The way open source projects get funded directly shapes their security outcomes. From corporate sponsorship to bounty programs, each model creates different incentives and blind spots.