security

In early November 2025, the Eclipse Foundation Security Team delivered the second part of our security training for developers for the second time. This part included updates from the first time we delivered the training in June. For those who could not attend or are just now learning about the...

The “Open Source Stewards and the Cyber Resilience Act” white paper explores a new role introduced by the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): the open source steward. This is a newly introduced actor that doesn’t fit neatly into the existing categories of manufacturers or distributors but still carries specific obligations...

Do you want to know more about vulnerability management? As a developer, you might receive reports, or need to create some for your upstream projects. As a user, you might find something that could have security impacts. As a Committer, you want to know how to best manage reports your...

In early June 2025, the Eclipse Foundation Security Team delivered the second part of our security training for developers. The first day covered the basics of vulnerability management, and the second day delved into more complex subjects like multi-project coordination, embargoes, and SBOM management. We also introduced our SBOM early...

We are excited to announce that the Eclipse Foundation Security Team has conducted a Rapid Security Review of Eclipse SysON, the first review of our new initiative. A Rapid Security Review is a lightweight security assessment designed to help projects strengthen their overall security posture. It provides an easy to...

Do you want to know more about vulnerability management? As a developer, you might receive reports, or need to create some for your upstream projects. As a user, you might find something that could have security impacts. As a Committer, you want to know how to best manage reports your...

With the recent publication of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in the EU official journal, a 3 year race now begins for compliance by the global technology industry. This legislation sets new cybersecurity requirements that manufacturers and the open source projects they rely upon must meet. The open source...

You know that security is important but just have no time to spend digging into numerous tutorials and guides to figure out what’s relevant to you. To support fellow developers, the Eclipse Foundation is offering free security training for all Committers and Contributors. The complete training contains three parts: the...

Today marks an important milestone for the open source community. As open source software continues to drive innovation across industries, ensuring its relevance and compliance with emerging regulations has never been more critical.  To address these challenges, the Eclipse Foundation is proud to announce the formal launch of the Open...

In response to requests from various projects and after discussions between the Eclipse Foundation Security Team and the Architecture Council, we announced the creation of Project Security Teams (see the discussion at https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-csi/discussions/4 ) This blog post gives an overview of various questions that we have received in the last...