OSSF Security Tooling

Anyone is welcome to join our open discussions related to the group's mission and charter.

Motivation

Most developers are not security experts and even the most seasoned developers, security experts or not, make mistakes. Tools can be used to help weed out security defects allowing developers to focus on the features they want to develop.

Objective

Our mission is to Identify, Evaluate, Improve, Develop & Ease Deployment of universally-accessible, developer focused tooling to help the open source community secure their code. This space allows members to collaborate together on these goals.

Identify - There are a large number of tools that developers can utilize in various development environments. We need to ensure we understand the options available.
Evaluate - Some tools are better than others. We need to ensure quality tools are available to the open source community.
Improve - Some tools need just a little bit of help to offer the best solution. We need to, where possible, contribute to improve those tools.
Develop - Despite the large number of tools available, there are still large areas of the security problem space that do not have tools to help developers find issues. We will develop those tools where there is interest and bandwidth.
Ease Deployment - Most critically, open source developers need to know what tools they should be using and how to easily integrate them into their development process. Unless developers have an easy way to drop in security tooling, it is unlikely to be included. We will provide this information to open source developers.