DHS Funds Open-Source Security Project

The U.S. government's Department of Homeland Security plans to spend $1.24 million over three years to fund an ambitious software auditing project aimed at beefing up the security and reliability of several widely deployed open-source products.

The grant, called the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open Source Hardening Project," is part of a broad federal initiative to perform daily security audits of approximately 40 open-source software packages, including Linux, Apache, MySQL and Sendmail. (...)

In addition to Linux, Apache, MySQL and Sendmail, the project will also pore over the code bases for FreeBSD, Express.Mozilla, PostgreSQL and the GTK (GIMP Tool Kit) library.

According to a recent study by the Mitre Corp., there are more than 230 open-source software packages already in use for critical operations within the federal government.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1909946,00.asp

Keywords: vulnerability discovery, security

-- GregorioIvanoff - 28 Mar 2021
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